Burn the Dross Out of Me

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Lord, I long to be holy

Author: Herbert Buffum
Tune: [Lord, I long to be Holy]
Published in 5 hymnals

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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:	Lord, I long to be holy
Title:	Burn the Dross Out of Me
Author:	Herbert Buffum
Language:	English
Refrain First Line:	Burn the dross out of me
Copyright:	© 1931 by R. E. Winsett in Latter Ran Revival