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The "Good News" Must Be Told
Author: E. A. H. Appears in 15 hymnals First Line: The story of redeeming love Refrain First Line: That sweet old story must be told Used With Tune: [The story of redeeming love]
The "Good News" Must Be Told
[The story of redeeming love]
Appears in 11 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Rev. Elisha A. Hoffman Incipit: 13344 55334 43231 Used With Text: The "Good News" Must Be Told
[The story of redeeming love]
The “Good News” Must be Told
Author: E. A. H. Hymnal: Songs of Matchless Love #48 (1904) First Line: The story of redeeming love Refrain First Line: That sweet, old story must be told Lyrics: 1 The story of redeeming love
More precious is than gold,
And on thro’ all the years of time
The “good news” must be told.
Refrain:
That sweet, old story must be told,
The Gospel story must be told,
The story strange and true,
So old and ever new;
The sweet, old story must be told.
2 It is a story strangely sweet,
That never groweth old,
And to the aged and the young
The “good news” must be told. [Refrain]
3 O yes! our lips must honor him,
His love must be extolled,
His grace to men must be made known,
The “good news” must be told. [Refrain]
4 To those who long for heav’nly peace,
To wand’rers from the fold,
To all who thirst for righteousness
The “good news” must be told. [Refrain] Tune Title: [The story of redeeming love]
The “Good News” Must be Told
The "Good News" Must be Told
Author: Rev. Elisha A. Hoffman, 1839-1929 Hymnal: His Fullness Songs #123 (1977) First Line: The story of redeeming love Refrain First Line: That sweet, old story must be told Lyrics: 1 The story of redeeming love
More precious is than gold,
And on thro’ all the years of time
The “good news” must be told.
Refrain:
That sweet, old story must be told,
The Gospel story must be told,
The story strange and true,
So old and ever new,
The sweet, old story must be told.
2 It is a story strangely sweet,
That never groweth old,
And to the aged and the young
The “good news” must be told. [Refrain]
3 O yes! our lips must honor Him,
His love must be extolled,
His grace to men must be made known,
The “good news” must be told. [Refrain]
4 To those who long for heav’nly peace,
To wand’rers from the fold,
To all who thirst for righteousness
The “good news” must be told. [Refrain] Topics: Missions Languages: English Tune Title: [The story of redeeming love]
The "Good News" Must be Told
The "Good News" Must Be Told
Author: E. A. H. Hymnal: New Harvest Bells #13 (1900) First Line: The story of redeeming love Refrain First Line: That sweet old story must be told Languages: English Tune Title: [The story of redeeming love]
The "Good News" Must Be Told
E. A. Hoffman
1839 - 1929 Person Name: E. A. H. Author of "The “Good News” Must be Told" in Songs of Matchless Love 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
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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)
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E. A. Hoffman
