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Author: Elisha A. Hoffman Appears in 3 hymnals First Line: There is a home, a blessed home Refrain First Line: This blessed home, our gracious Lord Used With Tune: [There is a home, a blessed home]

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[There's a home, a blessed home]

Appears in 2 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Rev. E. S. Lorenz Incipit: 34545 13176 11655 Used With Text: The Paradise of God

[There is a home, a blessed home]

Appears in 1 hymnal Composer and/or Arranger: W. A. Ogden Incipit: 13451 23116 65332 Used With Text: There is a Home

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The Paradise of God

Author: Rev. E. A. Hoffman Hymnal: Gems of Song #160 (1901) First Line: There's a home, a blessed home Refrain First Line: This blessed home our gracious Lord Lyrics: 1 There’s a home, a blessed home, In that fair land above, Where peace and happiness abound,— The Paradise of Love. Chorus: This blessed home our gracious Lord, Has purchased with His blood, That we might enter through the gates The Paradise of God. 2 There’s a home, a heavenly home, In fadeless verdure dressed, Where toil and labor are no more,— The Paradise of Rest. [Chorus] 3 There’s a home, a blessed home, Where care and sorrow cease, Where sin and sickness never come,— The Paradise of Peace. [Chorus] 4 In this home, this peaceful home, Are all the saints of God, Who washed their robes, and made them white— In Jesus’ precious blood. [Chorus] Topics: Heaven Languages: English Tune Title: [There's a home, a blessed home]

The Paradise of God

Author: Rev. E. A. Hoffman Hymnal: Highest Praise #92 (1895) First Line: There's a home, a blessed home Refrain First Line: This blessed home our gracious Lord Languages: English Tune Title: [There's a home, a blessed home]

There is a Home

Author: Elisha A. Hoffman Hymnal: Pentecostal Hymns No. 1 #151 (1894) First Line: There is a home, a blessed home Refrain First Line: This blessed home, our gracious Lord Languages: English Tune Title: [There is a home, a blessed home]

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E. A. Hoffman

1839 - 1929 Person Name: Elisha A. Hoffman Author of "The Paradise of God" 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) ==============

Edmund S. Lorenz

1854 - 1942 Person Name: E. S. Lorenz Composer of "[There's a home, a blessed home]" in Gems of Song Pseudonymns: John D. Cresswell, L. S. Edwards, E. D. Mund, ==================== Lorenz, Edmund Simon. (North Lawrence, Stark County, Ohio, July 13, 1854--July 10, 1942, Dayton, Ohio). Son of Edward Lorenz, a German-born shoemaker who turned preacher, served German immigrants in northwestern Ohio, and was editor of the church paper, Froehliche Botschafter, 1894-1900. Edmund graduated from Toledo High School in 1870, taught German, and was made a school principal at a salary of $20 per week. At age 19, he moved to Dayton to become the music editor for the United Brethren Publishing House. He graduated from Otterbein College (B.A.) in 1880, studied at Union Biblical Seminary, 1878-1881, then went to Yale Divinity School where he graduated (B.D.) in 1883. He then spent a year studying theology in Leipzig, Germany. He was ordained by the Miami [Ohio] Conference of the United Brethren in Christ in 1877. The following year, he married Florence Kumler, with whom he had five children. Upon his return to the United States, he served as pastor of the High Street United Brethren Church in Dayton, 1884-1886, and then as president of Lebanon Valley College, 1887-1889. Ill health led him to resign his presidency. In 1890 he founded the Lorenz Publishing Company of Dayton, to which he devoted the remainder of his life. For their catalog, he wrote hymns, and composed many gospel songs, anthems, and cantatas, occasionally using pseudonyms such as E.D. Mund, Anna Chichester, and G.M. Dodge. He edited three of the Lorenz choir magazines, The Choir Leader, The Choir Herald, and Kirchenchor. Prominent among the many song-books and hymnals which he compiled and edited were those for his church: Hymns for the Sanctuary and Social Worship (1874), Pilgerlieder (1878), Songs of Grace (1879), The Otterbein Hymnal (1890), and The Church Hymnal (1934). For pastors and church musicians, he wrote several books stressing hymnody: Practical Church Music (1909), Church Music (1923), Music in Work and Worship (1925), and The Singing Church (1938). In 1936, Otterbein College awarded him the honorary D.Mus. degree and Lebanon Valley College the honorary LL.D. degree. --Information from granddaughter Ellen Jane Lorenz Porter, DNAH Archives

W. A. Ogden

1841 - 1897 Composer of "[There is a home, a blessed home]" in Pentecostal Hymns No. 1 William Augustine Ogden USA 1841-1897. Born at Franklin County, OH, his family moved to IN when he was age six. He studied music in local singing schools at age 8, and by age 10 could read church music fairly well. Later, he could write out a melody by hearing it sung or played. He enlisted in the American Civil War in the 30th IN Volunteer Infantry. During the war he organized a male choir which became well known throughout the Army of the Cumberland. After the war, he returned home, resumed music study, and taught school. He married Jennie V Headington, and they had two children: Lowell and Marian. He worked for the Iowa Normal School, Toledo Public School System. Among his teachers: Lowell Mason, Thomas Hastings, E E Baily and B F Baker, president of the Boston Music School. He wrote many hymns, both lyrics and/or music. He later issued his first song book, “The silver song” (1870). It became quite popular, selling 500,000 copies. He went on to publish other song books. Ogden also taught music at many schools in the U S and Canada. In 1887 he became superintendent of music in the public schools of Toledo, OH. His works include: “New silver songs for Sunday school” (1872), “Crown of life” (1875), “Notes of victory” (1885), “The way of life” (1886), “Gathering jewels” (1886). He was known as a very enthusiastic person in his work and a very congenial one as well. He died at Toledo, OH. John Perry