Benjamin Franklin Butts

Short Name: Benjamin Franklin Butts
Full Name: Butts, Benjamin Franklin, 1866-1935
Birth Year: 1866
Death Year: 1935

Born: September 7, 1867, Ohio.
Died: May 25, 1935, Las Cruces, New Mexico.
Buried: Home of Peace Cemetery, Porterville, California.

Son of Samuel F. Butts & Hannah Colton, Benjamin studied music at a young age. He started in business in Kansas City, but entered the evangelism field in 1888. He married three times: To Eva Grace Lambright (1867-1941), Mary Emma Rawlings (1869-1919), and Onna Barrett Mills (1896-1963). His works include:

Tears and Triumphs No. 4, with Lycurgus Pickett & William Marks (Louisville, Kentucky: Pentecostal Publishing Company, 1910)
Good News Hymns (Chicago, Illinois: The Biglow & Main Company, 1914)

Sources: Findagrave, accessed 19 Nov 2016

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TextsTunesHymnals
Tunes by Benjamin Franklin Butts (96)sort descendingAsInstancesIncipit
[Alone with God, my Father, in the secret place of prayer]Benjamin Frank­lin Butts (Composer)2
[As earth recedes, heaven opens bright]B. Frank Butts (Composer)213653 14333 42122
[Be kind to those around us]B. Frank Butts (Composer)555363 54476 52334
[Beautiful city, the home of the blest]B. Frank Butts (Composer)954565 11767 76576
[Beneath the shadows, dark and still]Benjamin Franklin Butts (Composer)233453 45665 54323
[Burdened by sin and so oft distrest]Benj. F. Butts (Composer)217654 56157 77767
[Christians, work for Jesus, serve him day by day]B. Frank Butts (Composer)254513 21124 67672
[Close by your side stands an unseen friend]B. Frank Butts (Composer)532132 16153 21312
[Closer, dear Jesus]B. Frank Butts (Composer)232165 51132 12332
[Come, Holy Spirit, source of power]Benjamin Franklin Butts (Composer)232351 65312 12352
[Communion with my Father]Benjamin Franklin Butts (Composer)555346 53345 45332
[Flee to the Rock, Christ Jesus]Benjamin Franklin Butts (Composer)333456 53111 43233
[For God so loved the world] (Butts)Benjamin Franklin Butts (Composer)255671 75557 24332
[For many years I wandered]Benjamin Franklin Butts (Composer)455334 51776 67666
[For the soul, through sin condemned to die]B. Frank Butts (Composer)451156 56153 33132
[Go forward to battle, ye soldiers of God]Benjamin F. Butts (Composer)251112 22556 53444
[Hark! the voice of Jesus, pleading]B. Frank Butts (Composer)253654 35476 56453
[Have you ever a thought once given]Benjamin Franklin Butts (Composer)254517 65366 53432
[He windeth his way through the village]B. Frank Butts (Composer)253165 61513 53212
[I am looking up to Jesus, simply trusting in his name]Benjamin F. Butts (Composer)234567 13123 43426
[I am now on the way to my homeland]Benjamin F. Butts (Composer)255111 32161 76512
[I have a dear Friend who is precious to me]Benjamin F. Butts (Composer)253431 55676 55111
[I have chosen a child of God to be]Benjamin Franklin Butts (Composer)233313 54565 16534
[I have seen the Savior standing at the threshold of my life]Benjamin Franklin Butts (Composer)251323 45321 21615
[I love to read of Christ my Lord]B. Frank Butts (Composer)333451 23517 12765
[I stand tonight, beside the cross]Benjamin Franklin Butts (Composer)233134 32224 45443
[I will kneel at the cross in my sin and shame]B. Frank Butts (Composer)251321 51217 67222
[I would be like Thee, more humble and meek]Benjamin Franklin Butts (Composer)256717 65564 77766
[If we follow, love and serve Him]Benjamin Franklin Butts (Composer)256532 17256 54323
[If you want to be a Christian you must leave the way of sin]Benjamin F. Butts (Composer)234533 22171 21765
[I'm a little daisy]B. Frank Butts (Composer)253165 46422 35565
[In the common round of duty]Benjamin Franklin Butts (Composer)233332 35244 56566
[In the light of the cross there is peace for the heart]Benjamin F. Butts (Composer)234554 51776 56667
[In the sunny pasture]B. Frank Butts (Composer)253513 11216 52326
[Jesus is all in all to me] (Butts)Benjamin Franklin Butts (Composer)233143 63242 76726
[Jesus is coming as yonder He went]B. Frank Butts (Composer)254532 16165 11115
[Jesus is ready, is ready to save]Benjamin Franklin Butts (Composer)456517 65653 56554
[Jesus, my Savior, through the changing ways]Benjamin Franklin Butts (Composer)232143 52524 31765
[Jesus, Savior, hear me, O graciously hear me]Benjamin F. Butts (Composer)251176 56176 54335
[Jesus your Savior, now calls to thee]Benjamin Franklin Butts (Composer)254565 31657 12123
[Just a cup of cooling water given in the Master's name]Benjamin F. Butts (Composer)234545 65343 32234
[Just a little sunshine on a dreary day]Benjamin Franklin Butts (Composer)251365 32161 35656
[Life has its changeful seasons, its sunshine and its rain]B. Frank Butts (Composer)433234 51164 16554
[Life is flowing through my heart]Benjamin Franklin Butts (Composer)234567 13216 51345
[Little hands can scatter roses]Benjamin Franklin Butts (Composer)2
[Marching forth to conquer in the highest name]Benjamin F. Butts (Composer)256711 17617 72222
[Moment by moment, day by day]Benjamin Franklin Butts (Composer)254325 43216 1653
[My heart was closed to Jesus]B. Frank Butts (Composer)453212 31114 41233
[Not mine, but Thine, the hours that pass]Benj. Franklin Butts (Composer)351232 16557 12464
[O sing unto the Lord] (Butts)Benjamin Franklin Butts (Composer)251513 54343 21352
[O tempest-tossed sailor on time's mighty sea]Benjamin F. Butts (Composer)234565 32161 23345
[O thou, my soul, bless God the Lord] (Butts)Benjamin F. Butts (Composer)255671 21756 71325
[O hark, our friends are gathering]Benj. Franklin Butts (Composer)251321 61765 45323
[O how I love my Savior's name]B. F. Butts (Arranger)117122 21233 23444
[One little hour by yonder cross]B. Frank Butts (Composer)354651 76234 56435
[Onward and upward to my Father's home]Benjamin F. Butts (Composer)3
[Our evening hymn to Thee, O God we raise]Benjamin Franklin Butts (Composer)3
[Purer and purer, dear Lord, I would be]Benjamin F. Butts (Composer)253453 21123 52343
[Rouse ye, Christian people, listen]Benjamin F. Butts (Composer)234531 65171 21615
[Sad is the sound as it falls on the ear]Benjamin Franklin Butts (Composer)333231 35565 35653
[Sheltered in the Rock of Ages] (Butts)Benjamin Franklin Butts (Composer)617617 65352 23451
[Shout His praises! sing the story!]B. Frank Butts (Composer)255317 21555 67165
[Since I first started for heaven and right]B. Frank Butts (Composer)254565 31747 77776
[Spirit of power, anoint me for service]Benjamin Franklin Butts (Composer)555556 71765 36665
[Take courage, my brother, press steadily on]Benj. Franklin Butts (Composer)355351 51217 11176
[Take my hand, dear Father, now]Benjamin Franklin Butts (Composer)232123 43234 34532
[The cross is heavy, this I know] (Butts)Benj. Franklin Butts (Composer)453321 17744 71235
[The day has come for sin's dethronement]Benjamin Franklin Butts (Composer)255671 21767 76755
[The day is done, its tasks are over]B. Frank Butts (Composer)433321 72444 43212
[The dear loving Savior was taken]Benjamin F. Butts (Composer)433234 32312 33321
[The gospel bell is ringing] (Butts)B. Frank Butts (Composer)251132 15567 16552
[The royal banner of the cross]B. Frank Butts (Composer)433565 12334 55565
[There's a fountain for sins that is open to all]Benj. Franklin Butts (Composer)234545 32121 26667
[There's a haven of safety beyond the deep sea]Benjamin Franklin Butts (Composer)232135 17656 53345
[There's a land of sun eternal]B. Frank Butts (Composer)212334 43113 21231
[There's a Voice in sin's wilderness, ringing so clear]B. Frank Butts (Composer)333323 54323 43515
[There's One above all earthly friends] (Butts)Benjamin F. Butts (Composer)4753453 21517 12432
[They are spreading Good News]Benjamin Franklin Butts (Composer)234565 32161 23345
[This is so wonderful, Jesus now loves me]Benjamin F. Butts (Composer)356717 67657 52222
[Though clouds like night hang over your way]Benjamin Franklin Butts (Composer)355451 23343 32234
[Tho' my feet incline to stray]Benjamin Franklin Butts (Composer)3
[Tho' storms may rage and billows roll]Benjamin Franklin Butts (Composer)233135 43252 34654
[Though your sins may be as crimson, Christ will wash them white as snow]Benjamin F. Butts (Composer)234545 13171 61615
[Thy doors unbolt and open wide]Benjamin Franklin Butts (Composer)255616 72667 12761
['Tis a simple story, but wondrous sweet]B. Frank Butts (Composer)351333 43322 57222
[To the just there's no dark valley]B. Frank Butts (Composer)332111 23556 53132
[Tonight, for thee the door stands open wide]Benjamin Franklin Butts (Composer)232143 32671 22354
[We are going away, some sweet glad day]Benjamin F. Butts (Composer)256531 53231 34562
[We shall see our Savior's face]B. Frank Butts (Composer)455112 23532 32155
[What sound is that, as of one knocking gentle]B. Frank Butts (Composer)233234 54565 35522
[When darkness gathers o'er me]Benjamin Franklin Butts (Composer)233322 36332 32133
[When the dark shadows are falling]Benj. F. Butts (Composer)232343 23154 56545
[When the evening shadows kiss the west]Benjamin Franklin Butts (Composer)3
[When the night is dark and dreary] (Butts)B. Frank Butts (Composer)233323 43111 46165
[When we tread the dark shades of the vale of the years]Benjamin F. Butts (Composer)234545 13765 76672
[Will you hear and heed the calling?]Benjamin Franklin Butts (Composer)255316 16522 21712

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