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Seeking Peace and Rest

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Restless and unhappy, burdened and distressed

Author: Elisha A. Hoffman
Tune: [Restless and unhappy]
Published in 2 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. Mary Louise VanDyke… Go to person page >

Text Information

First Line: Restless and unhappy, burdened and distressed
Title: Seeking Peace and Rest
Author: Elisha A. Hoffman
Language: English
Refrain First Line: If the Lord, my Savior
Copyright: Public Domain

Tune

[Restless and unhappy]Highcharts.com
Frequency of use
[Restless and unhappy]


Timeline

Appearance of this hymn in hymnals18831883.518841884.518851885.518861886.518871887.51888050100Percent of hymnalsHighcharts.com

Instances

Instances (1 - 2 of 2)

New Spiritual Songs #140

Page Scan

Spiritual Songs No. 2 #60

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