The Golden Light

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The golden light of Heaven now shines upon my soul

Author: Herbert Buffum
Tune: [The golden light of Heaven now shines upon my soul]
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:	The golden light of Heaven now shines upon my soul
Title:	The Golden Light
Author:	Herbert Buffum
Language:	English
Refrain First Line:	It's brightly shining from above
Publication Date:	1950
Copyright:	This text may still be under copyright because it was published in 1950.