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Short Name: Alfred B. Smith
Full Name: Smith, Alfred B. (Alfred Barnerd), 1916-2001
Birth Year: 1916
Death Year: 2001

Used pseudonym B. C. Laurelton

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In 1930, he began playing on radio broadcasts in Jersey City, New Jersey, on "The Old Fashioned Gospel Hour." After meeting Wendell P. Loveless, Alfred enrolled at the Moody Bible Institute in Chicago and became a member of the WMBI staff.

During service as Minister of Music at The Church of the Open Door in Philadelphia, he taught at The Philadelphia School of the Bible in the fall of 1938. During that year, he wrote "For God So Loved the World" after visiting the ninety-four year-old hymn writer George C. Stebbins.

Smith met Billy Graham when they were both students at Wheaton College. During their long collaboration, they founded Singspiration in 1941.

After graduating from Wheaton, Smith, Graham, and George Beverly Shea started "Youth for Christ" in Chicago.

--Daniel Mahraun (from livinghymns.org)


TextsTunesHymnals
Tunes by Alfred B. Smith (69)AsInstancessort descendingIncipit
I KNOW A FOUNTAlfred B. Smith (Arranger)112235 54321 34456
[I know who holds the future]Alfred B. Smith (Composer)1
[Begone, vain world, thou hast no charms for me]Alfred B. Smith (Arranger)151234 33212 15123
[Jesus gave her water that was not in the well]A. B. S. (Arranger)111223 54332 21334
SURSUM CORDA (Smith)Alfred M. Smith, 1879-1971 (Composer)113543 21221 56716
WIR PFLÜGENAlfred B. Smith (Adapter)151155 31543 21556
FRANCONIA (55433)Alfred B. Smith (Arranger)155433 24432 35567
[Speak just a word for Jesus] (Towner)A. B. S. (Arranger)133343 27117 64333
CHAUTAUQUA (Sherwin)Alfred B. Smith (Arranger)111165 45111 65457
[I am my Beloved's and He is mine]Alfred B. Smith (Composer (attributed to))111111 12332 11777
[When you feel weakest, dangers surround] (Booth)Alfred B. Smith (Arranger)154565 53216 56765
[Come, let us join our cheerful songs] (53111)Alfred B. Smith (Arranger)154311 32123 23451
[Show me Thy way, O Lord and make it plain] (Smith)A. B. S. (Composer)2
[Beyond life's sunset hills]Alfred B. Smith (Composer)2
[I'm going higher, yes higher someday]Alfred B. Smith (Composer)2
[The gift of everlasting life is mine today]Alfred B. Smith (Composer)2
[Peace, peace is flooding my soul]Alfred B. Smith (Composer)2
[There is a name from Heaven given]Alfred B. Smith (Composer)253451 21761 16765
[Are you sad and lonely]Alfred B. Smith (Composer)2
[He holds my hand, this wonderful Savior]Alfred B. Smith (Composer)2
[Oft there comes a gentle whisper over me stealing]Alfred B. Smith (Composer)234555 56567 15112
[I'm rejoicing in the Lord for what He's done for me]Alfred B. Smith (Composer)2
[At the cross I was kneeling] (Smith)Alfred B. Smith (Composer)234565 51712 23215
[How sweet to hide ourselves away] (Smith)Alfred B. Smith (Composer)2
[He's no longer a stranger]Alfred B. Smith (Composer)2
[The Lord has done great things for us whereof we are glad]Alfred B. Smith (Composer)251133 56543 21251
[I am hiding in the cleft of the Rock]Alfred B. Smith (Composer)2
[He's preparing a place for me]Alfred B. Smith (Composer)2
[Joy is dwelling in my heart]Alfred B. Smith (Composer)2
[Jesus is counting on you]Alfred B. Smith (Composer)2
[There’s a City with foundations just beyond the sunset glow]Alfred B. Smith (Composer)2
[Jesus saves and keeps and satisfies every day]Alfred B. Smith (Composer)2
[At the Name of Jesus] (Smith)Alfred B. Smith (Composer)212316 51171 24432
[Praise the Lord! I know He's able]Alfred B. Smith (Composer)2
[My Savior has freed me from sin]Alfred B. Smith (Composer)255453 45666 56176
[Savior, I come to Thee] (Smith)Alfred B. Smith (Composer)2
[Lift up your eyes weary traveler]Alfred B. Smith (Composer)2
[I do not know what lies ahead]Alfred B Smith (Composer)255335 54252 12235
[There's no one ever loved me like Jesus]Alfred B. Smith (Composer)2
[Neither do I condemn thee] (Smith)Alfred B. Smith (Composer)233232 11511 17132
[Study to show thyself approved unto God] (Smith)Alfred B. Smith (Composer)211233 21556 53543
[I find my all in Jesus]Alfred B. Smith (Composer)2
[Jesus said, Let not your heart be troubled]Alfred B. Smith (Composer)2
[I love my Savior, my precious Savior]Alfred B. Smith (Arranger)2
[His name above all other names] (Smith)Alfred B. Smith (Composer)251122 34543 12715
[A debt of love I owe to Jesus]Alfred B. Smith (Composer)2
[Wonderful the Savior's invitation]Alfred B. Smith (Composer)2
[O my soul, bless thou Jehovah] (Smith)Alfred B. Smith (Composer)251332 11723 44323
[Bring another friend or brother]Alfred B. Smith (Composer)2
[Lift up thy head O toiling saint]Alfred B. Smith (Composer)2
[He bore it all for me]Alfred B. Smith (Composer)2
[We may sound the depths of all the might oceans]Alfred B. Smith (Composer)2
[The Lord is good]Alfred B. Smith (Composer)353333 21171 25444
[There's a deep, settled peace in my soul]Alfred B. Smith (Composer)3
[Lord, with glowing heart I'd praise Thee] (Smith)Alfred B. Smith (Composer)313556 65313 55432
[In dreams in vain I've tried to trace]Alfred B. Smith (Composer)3
[Lord, help me live from day to day] (Smith)Alfred B. Smith (Composer)311234 31222 34542
[I fell in love with Jesus]Alfred B. Smith (Composer)3
[Somewhere beyond the blue there's a mansion for me]Alfred B. Smith (Composer)4
[God hath not promised skies always blue] (Smith)Alfred B. Smith (Composer)451233 32125 71244
BE THOU EXALTEDAlfred B. Smith, 1916-2001 (Composer)433211 33213 22217
[Why worry when you can pray?]Al Smith (Composer)453533 21161 11655
[The Savior came from heaven to die on Calvary]Alfred B. Smith (Composer)4
[What though the way be lonely] (Smith)Alfred B. Smith (Composer)411232 17222 3453
[There's a light in the window of heaven]Alfred B. Smith (Composer)556533 46655 54333
QUIET HOURAlfred B. Smith, 1916- (Arranger)533321 14443 25543
[With eternity's values in view, Lord]Alfred B. Smith (Composer)734545 61235 55461
[For God so loved the world] (Smith)Alfred B. Smith, 1916- (Composer)2853323 43321 26176
[A pilgrim was I and a wandering]Alfred B. Smith (Composer)3151113 21611 12222

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