I Will Pass Over You

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The Father in His grace has given to the race

Author: E. A. Hoffman
Tune: [The Father in His grace has given to the race]
Published in 1 hymnal

Author: E. 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:	The Father in His grace has given to the race
Title:	I Will Pass Over You
Author:	E. A. Hoffman
Language:	English
Refrain First Line:	O when I see the blood I will pass over you
Publication Date:	1905
Copyright:	This text is in the public domain in the United States because it was published before 1929.