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[Almost done with the ills of life]

Appears in 2 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: T. Frank Allen Incipit: 33433 21222 32217 Used With Text: Almost Home
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Almost Home

Author: Elisha A. Hoffman Appears in 2 hymnals First Line: Almost done with the ills of life Refrain First Line: Almost home, almost home Used With Tune: [Almost done with the ills of life]
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Author: Rev. Elisha A. Hoffman Hymnal: New Life No. 2 #36 (1886) First Line: Almost done with the ills of life Refrain First Line: Almost home, almost home Languages: English Tune Title: [Almost done with the ills of life]
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Author: Elisha A. Hoffman Hymnal: Golden Rays #120 (1882) First Line: Almost done with the ills of life Refrain First Line: Almost home, almost home Languages: English Tune Title: [Almost done with the ills of life]
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T. Frank Allen

Composer of "[Almost done with the ills of life]" in New Life No. 2
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E. A. Hoffman

1839 - 1929 Person Name: Rev. Elisha A. Hoffman Author of "Almost Home" in New Life No. 2 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) ==============
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