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Beautiful Bible
Author: Elisha A. Hoffman Appears in 2 hymnals First Line: Beautiful Bible, herald of mercy Refrain First Line: Beautiful Bible! wonderful Bible
Beautiful Bible
Beautiful Bible
Author: E. A. H. Hymnal: Triumphant Songs No.5 #39 (1896) First Line: Beautiful Bible, herald of mercy Refrain First Line: Beautiful Bible! wonderful Bible Tune Title: [Beautiful Bible, herald of mercy]
Beautiful Bible
Beautiful Bible
Author: Elisha A. Hoffman Hymnal: The Cyber Hymnal #8215 Meter: 10.9.11.10 D First Line: Beautiful Bible, herald of mercy! Refrain First Line: Beautiful Bible! wonderful Bible! Lyrics: 1 Beautiful Bible, herald of mercy!
Beautiful bible, message of love!
Pointing the way to the heavenly city,
Guiding our steps to the kingdom above.
Refrain:
Beautiful Bible! wonderful Bible!
Word of the loving Father above;
Radiant with light as the sun in the heavens,
Sweet with the story of Christ and His love.
2 Beautiful Bible! rich are thy treasures,
Bright are thy pearls of wisdom and truth;
Strength of our hearts mid earth’s trials and conflicts,
Comfort of age and the guard of our youth. [Refrain]
3 Beautiful Bible! lighting the pathway,
Leading from earth to Heaven above;
Lamp of our feet to illumine the darkness,
Till we shall enter God’s kingdom of love. [Refrain] Languages: English Tune Title: SEATTLE
Beautiful Bible
E. A. Hoffman
1839 - 1929 Person Name: E. A. H. Author of "Beautiful Bible" in Triumphant Songs No.5 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
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Hoffman, Elisha Albright, author of "Have you been to Jesus for the cleansing power?" (Holiness desired), in I. D. Sankey's Sacred Songs and Solos, 1881, was born in Pennsylvania, May 7, 1839.
--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, Appendix, Part II (1907)
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E. A. Hoffman
