The Throne in My Heart

Within the temple of my heart The Savior has a blest retreat

Author: E. A. Hoffman
Tune: [Within the temple of my heart]
Published in 3 hymnals

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 >

Text Information

First Line: Within the temple of my heart The Savior has a blest retreat
Title: The Throne in My Heart
Author: E. A. Hoffman
Language: English
Refrain First Line: O Jesus, reign Thou in my heart
Copyright: Public Domain

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Gems of Gospel Song #84

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Quartette #393

Bells of Heaven #d472

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