Step By Step

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Step by step, we will follow Jesus

Author: Elisha A. Hoffman
Tune: [Step by step we will follow Jesus]
Published in 2 hymnals

Audio files: MIDI

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1 Step by step we will follow Jesus,
Follow with faith sublime,
Anywhere that his love may lead us,
Just one step at a time.

Refrain:
Step by step, step by step,
Zion’s hill we will climb;
We will march to the golden portals,
Just one step at a time.

2 We but live for a single moment,
Higher and higher climb,
Nearing daily the heav’nly portals,
Just one step at a time. [Refrain]

3 Slowly, slowly we journey onward,
Up to the fairer clime,
Walking thither in faith and gladness,
Just one step at a time. [Refrain]

Source: Sunday School Voices: a collection of sacred songs #45

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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:	Step by step, we will follow Jesus
Title:	Step By Step
Author:	Elisha A. Hoffman
Language:	English
Refrain First Line:	Step by step, step by step
Copyright:	Public Domain