Can the Lord Depend On You?

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There's a warfare sin is waging bold and strong

Author: M. Lowrie Hofford
Tune: [There's a warfare sin is waging bold and strong]
Published in 3 hymnals

Author: M. Lowrie Hofford

Born: January 27, 1825, Doylestown, Pennsylvania. Died: January 9, 1888, Trenton, New Jersey. Hofford attended Lafayette and Princeton, where he graduated in 1849. He studied theology at the Princeton seminary for a year, and became principal of the Camden collegiate institute. While there, he organized a church at Beverly, New Jersey, being licensed by the Presbytery in Philadelphia in 1852. In 1855, he was ordained an evangelist in Burlington, New Jersey. In 1860, he began teaching at the Trenton Institute, and in 1863 took charge of a military institute at Allentown, Pennsylvania that was later incorporated as Muhlenberg College; he served there as a professor and later president. He taught and pastored at Camden and Beverly, New Jer… Go to person page >

Text Information

First Line: There's a warfare sin is waging bold and strong
Title: Can the Lord Depend On You?
Author: M. Lowrie Hofford
Language: English
Refrain First Line: O say! my brother, can the Lord depend on you
Publication Date: 1896
Copyright: Public Domain

Tune

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Frequency of use
[There's a warfare sin is waging bold and strong]


Timeline

Appearance of this hymn in hymnals18961896.251896.51896.7518971897.251897.51897.7518981898.251898.51898.7518991899.251899.51899.751900050100Percent of hymnalsHighcharts.com

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