The Keeper of Books

There's a Keeper of Books in the Land over the Blue

Author: Herbert Buffum
Tune: [There's a Keeper of Books in the Land over the Blue]
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:	There's a Keeper of Books in the Land over the Blue
Title:	The Keeper of Books
Author:	Herbert Buffum
Language:	English
Refrain First Line:	O how will it be in that day