Sweet Is the Story

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: O wondrously sweet is the story
Title: Sweet Is the Story
Author: Elisha A. Hoffman
Language: English
Refrain First Line: The story grows sweeter and sweeter
Copyright: Public Domain

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Christian Hymnal (Rev. ed.) #32

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Church and Sunday School Hymnal with Supplement #517

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Glory Bells #18

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Golden Songs of Glory #11

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Gospel Songs and Hymns No. 1 #48

Kingdom Songs No. 2 #d159

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New Onward and Upward #135

The Pathway of Praise No. 1 #d98

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