My Chains Are Broken

Author: Elisha A. Hoffman

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… Go to person page >

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First Line: Now the chains of sin are broken
Title: My Chains Are Broken
Author: Elisha A. Hoffman
Language: English
Refrain First Line: Hallelujah, hallelujah, Jesus died for me
Copyright: Public Domain

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Band Music #126

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Gems of Gospel Song #110

Gospel Tent Hymns #d119

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Gospel Tent Hymns #117

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Pentecostal Hymns No. 1 #289

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Revival Hymns #91

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Sing Out the Glad News #23

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Songs and Solos used by the Christian Crusaders #81

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Songs of Salvation #136

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The Evangel of Song #57

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The Salvation Soldiers' Song Book #89

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