Pilgrims to a Better Land

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We are pilgrims to a better land

Author: Elisha A. Hoffman
Tune: [We are pilgrims to a better land]
Published in 2 hymnals

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1 We are pilgrims to a better land,
We are marching onward hand in hand;
Soon Jerusalem will come in sight,
With its palaces of golden light.

Refrain:
We are marching on, to the land of love,
Marching on, marching on to the home above,
Soon Jerusalem will appear in sight,
With its palaces of golden light.

2 In the name of Jesus we will go,
To the land where crystal fountains flow,
To the home where parting is no more,
And the saved shall rest forevermore. [Refrain]

3 Come and join our happy pilgrim band,
And go with us to the better land,
Where the saints are robed in purest white,
In the palaces of golden light. [Refrain]

Source: Triumphant Songs No.2 #44

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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:	We are pilgrims to a better land
Title:	Pilgrims to a Better Land
Author:	Elisha A. Hoffman
Language:	English
Refrain First Line:	We are marching on, to the land of love
Copyright:	Public Domain