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Display Title: Roll, roll, billows roll First Line: O'er life's billows flying Author: Elisha A. Hoffman; Elisha Albright Hoffman Date: 1921
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Roll, Billows, Roll
O'er life's billows flying, wind and wave defying
Author: Elisha A. HoffmanTune: [Over life's billows flying]
Published in 6 hymnals
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.
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Hosannas #94
Display Title: Roll, Billows, Roll First Line: O'er life's billows flying, wind and wave defying Tune Title: [O'er life's billows flying, wind and wave defying] Author: Rev. E. A. Hoffman Date: 1917
Hosannas #94
Praise Him #d195
Display Title: Roll, roll, billows, roll First Line: O'er life's billows flying Author: Elisha A. Hoffman; Elisha Albright Hoffman Date: 1929
Praise Him #d195
Service Hymnal #417
Display Title: Roll, Billows, Roll First Line: O'er life's billows flying, wind and wave defying Tune Title: [O'er life's billows flying, wind and wave defying] Author: Rev. E. A. Hoffman Date: 1925
Service Hymnal #417
The Baptist Standard Hymnal #417
Display Title: Roll, Billows, Roll First Line: O'er life's billows flying Tune Title: [O'er life's billows flying] Author: Rev. E. A. Hoffman Date: 1924 Subject: The Christian | Trial and Conflict
The Baptist Standard Hymnal #417
Tribute of Praise #d75
Display Title: Roll, roll, billows roll First Line: O'er life's billows flying Author: Elisha A. Hoffman; Elisha Albright Hoffman Date: 1918
Tribute of Praise #d75
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