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The merry bells are ringing

Author: Elisha A. Hoffman Appears in 2 hymnals Hymnal Title: Calvin Hymnary Project

[The merry bells are ringing]

Appears in 1 hymnal Composer and/or Arranger: C. A. White Hymnal Title: Sparkling Diamonds Incipit: 55565 51171 23255 Used With Text: Christmas Carol

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The merry bells are ringing

Author: Elisha A. Hoffman; Elisha Albright Hoffman Hymnal: Green Pastures for the Lambs #d73 (1886) Hymnal Title: Green Pastures for the Lambs Languages: English

Author: Rosalinda Hymnal: Sparkling Diamonds #173 (1884) Hymnal Title: Sparkling Diamonds First Line: The merry bells are ringing Refrain First Line: The bells, the bells, the merry Christmas bells Languages: English Tune Title: [The merry bells are ringing]

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E. A. Hoffman

1839 - 1929 Person Name: Elisha A. Hoffman Hymnal Title: Calvin Hymnary Project Author of "The merry bells are ringing" 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 ============ 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) ==============

Rosalinda

Hymnal Title: Sparkling Diamonds Author of "Christmas Carol" in Sparkling Diamonds

C. A. White

Hymnal Title: Sparkling Diamonds Composer of "[The merry bells are ringing]" in Sparkling Diamonds Prof. C. A. White, of the Wilberforce Concert Company, composed a tune found in the African Methodist Episcopal hymnal (1898) called LEE, #730.