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[If Christ should return in the clouds before night]

Appears in 2 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Virgil O. Stamps Tune Key: E Flat Major Used With Text: I Would Not Miss It - Would You?

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I Would Not Miss It - Would You?

Author: Herbert Buffum Appears in 2 hymnals First Line: If Christ should return in the clouds before night Used With Tune: [If Christ should return in the clouds before night]

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I Would Not Miss It - Would You?

Author: Herbert Buffum Hymnal: Favorite Songs and Hymns #210 (1939) First Line: If Christ should return in the clouds before night Languages: English Tune Title: [If Christ should return in the clouds before night]

I Would Not Miss It - Would You?

Author: Herbert Buffum Hymnal: Special Sacred Selections #419 (1977) First Line: If Christ should return in the clouds before night Languages: English Tune Title: [If Christ should return in the clouds before night]

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Herbert Buffum

1879 - 1939 Author of "I Would Not Miss It - Would You?" in Favorite Songs and Hymns 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)

Virgil O. Stamps

1892 - 1940 Composer of "[If Christ should return in the clouds before night]" in Special Sacred Selections
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