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On the Pinions of a Dove

Author: M. Lowrie Hofford Appears in 2 hymnals Hymnal Title: Calvin Hymnary Project Refrain First Line: Away, away

[On the pinions of a dove]

Appears in 1 hymnal Composer and/or Arranger: Geo. Randall Hymnal Title: Pearls of Gospel Song Incipit: 54513 44512 12557 Used With Text: On the Pinions of a Dove

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Author: Rev. M. L. Hofford Hymnal: Pearls of Gospel Song #150 (1884) Hymnal Title: Pearls of Gospel Song Refrain First Line: Away, away Languages: English Tune Title: [On the pinions of a dove]

Away, away

Author: M. Lowrie Hofford Hymnal: Sacred Melodies (Revised) #d236 (1889) Hymnal Title: Sacred Melodies (Revised) First Line: On the pinions of a dove

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M. Lowrie Hofford

1825 - 1888 Hymnal Title: Calvin Hymnary Project Author of "On the Pinions of a Dove" 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