When Jesus Is Near

There's naught can alarm me nor fill me with dread

Author: Herbert Buffum
Tune: [There's naught can alarm me nor fill me with dread]
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 naught can alarm me nor fill me with dread
Title:	When Jesus Is Near
Author:	Herbert Buffum
Language:	English
Refrain First Line:	When Jesus is near, I'm alright
Publication Date:	1955
Copyright:	This text may still be under copyright because it was published in 1955.