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Author: Rev. M. Lowrie Hofford, D.D. Appears in 2 hymnals First Line: Have you heard the angels story? Refrain First Line: Hallelujah in the highest Used With Tune: [Have you heard the angels story?]

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[Have you heard the angels story?]

Appears in 1 hymnal Composer and/or Arranger: Mamie E. Ogden Incipit: 55153 46555 61217 Used With Text: Have You Heard?

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Have You Heard?

Author: Rev. M. Lowrie Hofford, D.D. Hymnal: Gathered Jewels No. 2 #135 (1889) First Line: Have you heard the angels story? Refrain First Line: Hallelujah in the highest Languages: English Tune Title: [Have you heard the angels story?]

Hallelujah in the highest

Author: M. Lowrie Hofford Hymnal: Happy Day #d44 (1888) First Line: Have you heard the angels Languages: English

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M. Lowrie Hofford

1825 - 1888 Person Name: Rev. M. Lowrie Hofford, D.D. Author of "Have You Heard?" in Gathered Jewels No. 2 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 Jersey, and Doylestown, Pennsylvania (1868-78), then became pastor at Morrisville, Pennsylvania. --www.hymntime.com/tch