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His Love, It Is Heaven

Author: Elisha A. Hoffman Appears in 2 hymnals First Line: God's love, it is sweeter than honey to me Refrain First Line: His love it is heaven to me

[God's love! it is sweeter than honey to me]

Appears in 1 hymnal Composer and/or Arranger: Rev. E. A. Hoffman Incipit: 11355 31232 11146 Used With Text: His Love, It is Heaven

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Author: E. A. H. Hymnal: Best Hymns No. 3 #150 (1903) First Line: God's love! it is sweeter than honey to me Refrain First Line: His love-- it is heaven to me Topics: Cleansing; Experience; Love Languages: English Tune Title: [God's love! it is sweeter than honey to me]

His love it is heaven to me

Author: Elisha A. Hoffman; Elisha Albright Hoffman Hymnal: Peerless Hymns #d50 (1899) First Line: God's love, it is sweeter than honey to me Languages: English

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E. A. Hoffman

1839 - 1929 Person Name: Elisha A. Hoffman Author of "His Love, It Is Heaven" 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) ==============