[There is a safe and secret place] (Hoffman)

[There is a safe and secret place] (Hoffman)

Composer: Rev. E. A. Hoffman
Published in 2 hymnals


Composer: Rev. 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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Title: [There is a safe and secret place] (Hoffman)
Composer: Rev. E. A. Hoffman
Incipit: 51353 21117 24655
Copyright: Public Domain

Texts

There Is a Safe and Secret Place

There is a safe and secret place,
Beneath the wings Divine,
Reserved for all the heirs of grace;
O be that refuge mine!

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Sifted Wheat #54

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Songs of the Pentecost for the Forward Gospel Movement #54

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