家族と共にカリフォルニアに転居し、キリストに回心した18歳の時から、Buffumは伝道職への召しを感じていた。ナザレン教会において伝道者の資格を与えられ、ホーリネス／ペンテコステ派の伝道者となった。また、個人的な経験から生まれた多くの賛美歌を書いた作詞家でもあり、10,000曲をかき、そのうち1,000曲が出版されている。Ripleyの"Believe It or Not"には、ある時彼が1時間の間に12曲を書いた、と書かれている。才能あふれる音楽家ではあったが、Buffumは正式な音楽教育を受けたことがなかった。自分の作品のほとんどは5ドルか、それ以下で売った。彼が亡くなったとき、ロサンジェルス・タイムズ紙は、彼を「ゴスペル作家の王様」と呼んでいる。
作品を含む出版物: Findagrave, accessed 18 Jan 2018
作詞作品: My Sheep Know My Voice All My Childhood I Hated Awful Days of Tribulation Come Now to Jesus, He Calleth Thee Could We Catch the Glistening of the Dew Cross That Was Planted on Calvary's Brow, The Devil Now Is Raging, The Do Not Be Discouraged When the Dark Clouds Come Do Not Sing, Will There Be Any Stars in My Crown? Down in the Depths of the Spirit Filled Life Ever Since I Started Out to Follow Jesus Every Day Has Its Sunset Fight Is On, The Get a Smile from Jesus God Can Make a Way When There Is No Way Have the Dark Clouds Settled Have You Ever Wandered Away from Your Home? He Abides He Keeps on Loving Us Still Heathen at Your Door, The Heaven Comes Down My Soul to Greet Here So Many Are Taking Vacation I Belong to Jesus, He's My Friend I Could Not Tell in Many Years I Dreamed I Had Searched All Through Heaven for You I Find a Safe and Sure Retreat I Had Wandered Far from the Fold I Have a Friend Who Is Always the Same I Have a Hallelujah Chorus in My Soul I Have Heard the Call for Workers I Have Said I Will to Jesus I Hope to Live Till Jesus Comes I Know Not Why My Way Is Hedged About I Love My Blessed Savior No Matter What He Sends I Love My Savior, So I Seldom Stop I May Not Always Understand I Never Loved Jesus as I Love Him Now I One Time Felt a Pity for the Christians I Want to Be Ready When Jesus Comes Back I Want to Go Deeper in Jesus I Was a Stubborn Child I Was Feeling Bowed Down I Was Just as Wretched as a Soul Could Be If Burdened Your Heart If Death Ended All and if Man Had No Soul If the Bible Is True, There Is Heaven to Gain If You Have Ere Listened to God's Tender Voice If You Have Grown Weary and Heart-Sick of Sin If You Would Enter Heaven If Your Sins Are All Forgiven and Your Heart Is Clean If Your Sins Have Been Forgiven You I'm a Pilgrim and a Stranger I'm but a Pilgrim Here Below I'm Going Higher Some Day I'm Going Through I'm Having a Good Time with Jesus I'm in Love with Jesus, the Lover of My Soul I'm So Glad That Jesus Came In Meditation Deep One Night In the Center of God's Will I'm Sweetly Resting In the City Where the Lamb Is the Light In the Hollow of His Hand, I Am Safely Sheltered Isn't He Wonderful? It May Not Seem Welcome Now I've Been Traveling for Jesus I've Entered into Canaan from Egypt's Bondage I've Started Out to Walk the Pathway to Heaven I've Turned My Back Forever on Old Satan Joy of One Day in His Presence, The Just a Little Smile from Jesus Just Ahead Are Greater Things Keep Looking, Keep Looking Let's Talk About Jesus Lift Me Up Above the Shadows Long My Feet Had Wandered on in Paths of Folly Long My Soul Was So Restless Lord, I Long to Be Holy Love Stands the Test in Every Trying Hour Made One in Christ, O What a Blissful Union My Heart Is Fixed, O God on Thee My Heart Is Running o'er with Praise My Heart Is So Happy in Jesus My Heart Was Always Restless My Heart Was Closed to the Savior's Knock My Life Is No Longer All Tarnished By Sin My Life Is Now Hidden with Christ in God My Little Bark Was Tempest Tossed My Sheep Know My Voice My Sins, Which Were Many Nearer, My Lord, to Thee Not Now: Go, Spirit, Go Thy Way O Do Not Be Discouraged When the Dark O How Well I Remember O Wanderer Afar from the Dear Shepherd's Fold O Wanderer, Far from Thy God Astray Often I've Watched the Clouds Old-Fashioned Meeting, The Once I Saw Deliverance a Long Way Off Once I Thought That Glory Land Out of the Power and Darkness of Sin Praise God for a Present Salvation Praise the Lord for the Blood Praise the Lord, I Have an All Sufficient Savior Prodigal Had Wandered from His Father's Home, The Say Not That God His Face Has Hidden from You So Many Are Building So Many Are Saying Because of the Times Some Want Silver, Some Want Gold Someone Will Come to the Fold Tonight Speak a Little Word for Jesus Take Me in Thy Fold Tell It Everywhere You Go There Are Days That We All Have Forgotten There Are Lengths and Breadths There Are Plenty of Doubts About Lots of Things There Is Only One Way to Be Cleansed from Your Sin There Is Soon to Dawn an Everlasting Day There's a Big Time Coming, and It's Not Far Away There's a Great Loving Father in Heaven There's a Keeper of Books There's a Song in My Soul There's a Wonderful Invention There's Coming a Wonderful, Wonderful Day They Led Him Away to Be Crucified Though Dark Be the Way Though Far You May Wander Away from the Fold Though the Hosts of Sin Assail Through the Word of Our Testimony Wee Little Child Had Been Left All Alone, A What a Wonderful, Wonderful Love What Though the Days May Seem Dreary What Though the Way Be Rough When All Seems Dark and the Fierce Billows Roll When at Last My Work on Earth When Days Are Dreary, When Heart Is Weary When First I Was Converted When I Become Weary and Tired When I Take My Vacation in Heaven When Jesus Laid Aside the Crown When Laden with Sin and Bowed Down with Grief When Our Work on Earth Is Ended When the King Returns in Glory When the Roll Is Called in Heaven When the Trials of Life Seem Almost Too Heavy When We Come to Meet Around the Great White Throne When We Walk with the Savior When You Hear the Thunder Booming When You Start to Follow Jesus in the Narrow Way When You're One Step from God Where Hast Thou Gleaned Today? Where I Am Going There Is No Sorrow While Walking with My Savior Who Is the One Who Can Give Sweet Peace? Who Is the One Who Never Whole World Looks Brighter and Better to Me, The Why Repine Because You Cannot Fill Wonderful Message I Bring unto You, A Would You Know the Message for This Very Day? Would You Know the Secret? Would You Understand the Secret of the Overcomer's Life? You Ask Where Is Heaven You Say You Feel the Savior's Presence
