In the Sweet By and By

In the sweet by and by In the land of the blest

Author: M. Lowrie Hofford
Tune: [In the sweet by and by]
Published in 2 hymnals

Author: M. Lowrie Hofford

Born: January 27, 1825, Doylestown, Pennsylvania. Died: January 9, 1888, Trenton, New Jersey. Hofford attended Lafayette and Princeton, where he graduated in 1849. He studied theology at the Princeton seminary for a year, and became principal of the Camden collegiate institute. While there, he organized a church at Beverly, New Jersey, being licensed by the Presbytery in Philadelphia in 1852. In 1855, he was ordained an evangelist in Burlington, New Jersey. In 1860, he began teaching at the Trenton Institute, and in 1863 took charge of a military institute at Allentown, Pennsylvania that was later incorporated as Muhlenberg College; he served there as a professor and later president. He taught and pastored at Camden and Beverly, New Jer… Go to person page >

Text Information

First Line: In the sweet by and by In the land of the blest
Title: In the Sweet By and By
Author: M. Lowrie Hofford
Language: English
Refrain First Line: In the sweet by and by
Copyright: Public Domain

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Gathered Jewels #112

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Sabbath Songs #28

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