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[Lord, I have started to walk in the light]

[Lord, I have started to walk in the light]

Composer: Herbert Buffum
Published in 31 hymnals


Printable scores: MusicXML, Noteworthy Composer
Audio files: MIDI

Composer: 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 >

Tune Information

Title: [Lord, I have started to walk in the light]
Composer: Herbert Buffum
Meter: 10.11.10.11 with refrain
Incipit: 33211 11166 51113
Key: A♭ Major
Copyright: Public Domain

Timeline

Instances

Instances (1 - 5 of 5)

Sacred Selections for the Church #383

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The Cyber Hymnal #2927

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The New National Baptist Hymnal (21st Century Edition) #399

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Timeless Truths #590

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Total Praise #398

Include 26 pre-1979 instances
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