When We Look On His Face

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When we walk with the Savior, He is often so near

Author: Herbert Buffum
Tune: [When we walk with the Savior, He is often so near]
Published in 7 hymnals

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:	When we walk with the Savior, He is often so near
Title:	When We Look On His Face
Author:	Herbert Buffum
Language:	English
Refrain First Line:	When we look on His face in that home over there