When the Gates Swing Open For Me

I have heard of a city beyond the blue sky

Author: Herbert Buffum
Tune: [I have heard of a city beyond the blue sky]
Published in 1 hymnal

Author: Herbert Buffum

Herbert Buffum was born in La Fayette, Illinois 13 November 1879. He became a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. He started preaching at seventeen years of age. He did city mission work up and down the Pacific Coast and later in small towns in Kansas. He began publishing hymns at the age of eighteen. Dianne Shapiro, from "The Singers and Their Songs: sketches of living gospel hymn writers" by Charles Hutchinson Gabriel (Chicago: The Rodeheaver Company, 1916) Go to person page >

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First Line:	I have heard of a city beyond the blue sky
Title:	When the Gates Swing Open For Me
Author:	Herbert Buffum
Language:	English
Refrain First Line:	When the gates swing wide open for me
Publication Date:	1941
Copyright:	This text may still be under copyright because it was published in 1941.