Im Vaterhause

Translator: E. C. Magaret

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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 >

Text Information

First Line: Weit über Jordans dunklen Wogen
Title: Im Vaterhause
English Title: Beyond the dark, mysterious river
Translator: E. C. Magaret
Author: Elisha A. Hoffman
Language: German
Refrain First Line: O mein Herz ist voll Verlangen
Copyright: Public Domain

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Die Kleine Palme No. 2 #76

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Die Kleine Palme #115

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Evangelisches Gesangbuch #115

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Gemeinschafts-Lieder. 7th ed. #515

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