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When the Book Is Unsealed

Author: Elisha A. Hoffman Appears in 5 hymnals First Line: You are writing a record each day that you live Refrain First Line: When the great book of life is unsealed
When the Book Is Unsealed

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[You are writing a record each day that you live]

Appears in 3 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Rev. G. P. Humphries Incipit: 55111 32155 53113 Used With Text: When the "Book of Life" Is Unsealed
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[You are writing a record each day that you live]

Appears in 1 hymnal Composer and/or Arranger: Howard E. Smith Incipit: 33555 54366 65113 Used With Text: When the Book Is Unsealed
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When the Book of Life is Unsealed

Author: Elisha A. Hoffman Hymnal: The Cyber Hymnal #16729 First Line: You are writing a record each day that you live Refrain First Line: When the great Book of life is unsealed Lyrics: 1. You are writ­ing a re­cord each day that you live, On the soul where your choic­es are sealed; By and by an ac­count for your life you must give, And the record will then be re­vealed. Refrain: When the great Book of life is un­sealed, And your re­cord is clear­ly re­vealed; What hope then for you? What, soul, will you do? When the sec­rets of life are re­vealed? 2. O, ye care­less ones, thought­less ones liv­ing in sin, So ne­glect­ful of deeds which you do; Know you not that your sin is re­cord­ed with­in, And will go to the judg­ment with you? [Refrain] 3. Yet there’s hope for the trust­ing and pe­ni­tent soul, All its sins may be blot­ted away; By and by all shall know that the blood mak­eth whole, When the Book is un­sealed in that day. [Refrain] Languages: English Tune Title: [You are writing a record each day that you live]
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When the "Book of Life" is Unsealed

Author: Rev. E. A. Hoffman Hymnal: The Golden Sunshine #86 (1911) First Line: You are writing a record each day that you live Refrain First Line: When the great "Book of Life" is unsealed Languages: English Tune Title: [You are writing a record each day that you live]
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When the Book Is Unsealed

Author: Rev. Elisha A. Hoffman Hymnal: Hymns that Help #107 (1903) First Line: You are writing a record each day that you live Refrain First Line: When the great "Book of Life" is unsealed Languages: English Tune Title: [You are writing a record each day that you live]
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Howard E. Smith

1863 - 1918 Composer of "[You are writing a record each day that you live]" in Hymns that Help
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E. A. Hoffman

1839 - 1929 Person Name: Rev. E. A. Hoffman Author of "When the "Book of Life" Is Unsealed" in The Harp of Glory 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) ==============
E. A. Hoffman

G. Pierce Humphries

Person Name: Rev. G. P. Humphries Arranger of "[You are writing a record each day that you live]" in The Harp of Glory
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