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The Palaces of Light

Author: Elisha A. Hoffman Appears in 4 hymnals Hymnal Title: Calvin Hymnary Project First Line: Beyond the darkness of the tomb Refrain First Line: Clean robes, pure robes

[Beyond the darkness of the tomb]

Appears in 10 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: E. A. Hoffman Hymnal Title: Favorite Gospel Songs Incipit: 51131 22523 43215 Used With Text: The Palaces of Light

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Author: Elisha A. Hoffman; Elisha Albright Hoffman Hymnal: Banner Hymns (1st ed) #d16 (1904) Hymnal Title: Banner Hymns (1st ed) First Line: Beyond the darkness of the tomb Refrain First Line: Clean robes, pure robes Languages: English

The Palaces of Light

Author: E. A. H. Hymnal: Favorite Gospel Songs #96 (1894) Hymnal Title: Favorite Gospel Songs First Line: Beyond the darkness of the tomb Refrain First Line: Clean robes, pure robes Languages: English Tune Title: [Beyond the darkness of the tomb]

The Palaces of Light

Author: E. A. H. Hymnal: New Life No. 2 #22 (1886) Hymnal Title: New Life No. 2 First Line: Beyond the darkness of the tomb Refrain First Line: Clean robes, pure robes Languages: English Tune Title: [Beyond the darkness of the tomb]

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E. A. Hoffman

1839 - 1929 Person Name: E. A. H. Hymnal Title: Favorite Gospel Songs Author of "The Palaces of Light" in Favorite Gospel Songs Elisha Hoffman (1839-1929) after graduating from Union Seminary in Pennsylvania was ordained in 1868. As a minister he was appointed to the circuit in Napoleon, Ohio in 1872. He worked with the Evangelical Association's publishing arm in Cleveland for eleven years. He served in many chapels and churches in Cleveland and in Grafton in the 1880s, among them Bethel Home for Sailors and Seamen, Chestnut Ridge Union Chapel, Grace Congregational Church and Rockport Congregational Church. In his lifetime he wrote more than 2,000 gospel songs including"Leaning on the everlasting arms" (1894). The fifty song books he edited include Pentecostal Hymns No. 1 and The Evergreen, 1873. Mary Louise VanDyke ============ Hoffman, Elisha Albright, author of "Have you been to Jesus for the cleansing power?" (Holiness desired), in I. D. Sankey's Sacred Songs and Solos, 1881, was born in Pennsylvania, May 7, 1839. --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, Appendix, Part II (1907) ==============