The purpose of trials

When the trials of life seem almost too heavy

Author: Herbert Buffum
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:	When the trials of life seem almost too heavy
Title:	The purpose of trials
Author:	Herbert Buffum
Refrain First Line:	O Lord send the testings but furnish the grace