Come, Join the Cheerful Song

Come, join the cheerful song, Take up the sweet refrain

Author: M. Lowrie Hofford
Tune: [Come, join the cheerful song]
Published in 2 hymnals

Author: M. Lowrie Hofford

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 Jer… Go to person page >

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First Line: Come, join the cheerful song, Take up the sweet refrain
Title: Come, Join the Cheerful Song
Author: M. Lowrie Hofford
Language: English
Refrain First Line: The song before the throne
Copyright: Public Domain

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