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If the Devil Would Stay Home

We should never have discord or trouble or strife

Author: Herbert Buffum
Tune: [We should never have discord or trouble or strife]
Published in 1 hymnal

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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: We should never have discord or trouble or strife
Title: If the Devil Would Stay Home
Author: Herbert Buffum
Language: English
Refrain First Line: But glory to God we can shout thru our tears
Publication Date: 1935
Copyright: Copyright, 1935 by W. E. Kidson
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Pentecostal Jewels #5

Pentecostal Jewels #5
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