This song, has a lot of “bounce,” but it is not syncopated.  The tempo is even, at a quick march beat, known as a “quick-step.”  A real “foot stomper!” The offering for today was inspired by Terry Dawson’s testimony, wherein he was saved at “an old fashioned tent meeting.”  The words to this hymn are outstanding – especially verses 3 and 4!

The Complete 1922 Lyrics to the song: The Old Fashioned Meeting,
By Herbert Buffman 

Verse 1:
Oh how well I remember in the old fashioned days,
When some old fashioned people had some old fashioned ways
In the old fashioned meetings, as they tarried there
In the old fashioned manner, how God answered their prayer.

Chorus:
‘Twas an old fashiomed meeting, In an old fashioned place
Where some old fashioned people, had some old fashion grace
As an old fashioned sinner, I began to pray,
And God heard me and answered in the old fashioned way

Verse 2:
There was singing, such singing, of those old fashioned airs!
There was power, such power, in those old fashioned prayers
An old fashioned conviction made the sinner pray
And the Lord heard and saved him in the old fashioned way.

Repeat Chorus:

Verse 3:
Well, They say it is better, ” Things have changed, don’t you know!”
And the people in general seem to think it is so
And they call me old fashioned when I dare to say
That I like it far better in the old fashioned way.

Repeat Chorus:

Verse 4:
If the Lord never changes, as the fashion of men,
If He’s always the same, why, He is old fashioned then!
As an old fashioned sinner saved through old time grace,
Oh, I’m sure He will take me to an old fashioned place.

Repeat Chorus:

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Short Name: Herbert Buffum

Full Name: Buffum, Herbert, 1879-1939

Birth Year: 1879

Death Year: 1939

Born: November 13, 1879, La­fay­ette, Il­li­nois.
Died: Oc­to­ber 9, 1939, Los An­ge­les, Cal­i­for­nia.
Buried: Val­hal­la Me­mor­i­al Park, Los An­ge­les, Cal­i­for­nia. His ep­i­taph reads “I have fought a good fight.”

Af­ter mov­ing with his fam­i­ly to Cal­i­for­nia and be­ing con­vert­ed to Christ at age 18, Buf­fum felt a call to the min­is­try. He held min­is­ter­i­al cre­den­tials with the Church of the Nazarene, and was a Ho­li­ness/Pen­te­cost­al evan­gel­ist. He was al­so a prolific song writ­er, with ma­ny songs in­spired by per­son­al ex­per­i­ence; He had 10,000 Songs to his cred­it, 1,000 ac­tu­al­ly pub­lished. Ripley’s “Believe It Or Not” claimed He once wrote 12 songs in an hour. Though a tal­ent­ed mu­si­cian, Buf­fum re­ceived no mu­sic­al train­ing. He sold most of his songs for five dollars or less. When he died, the Los An­ge­les Times called him “the king of Gos­pel song writ­ers.  http://www.hymnary.org/text/o_how_well_i_remember

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Jeremiah 6:16

Thus saith the Lord, Stand ye in the ways, and see, and ask for the old paths, where is the good way, and walk therein, and ye shall find rest for your souls.

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