1 Tho’ the cross for him I bear,
And reproach with him I share,
It is hallelujah all the way;
Long as I behold his face,
Taste his love and share his grace,
It is hallelujah all the way.
Chorus:
Hallelujah! Naught can hide my Savior’s face;
Hallelujah! Pure his love, and sweet his grace;
Brighter dawns each coming day,
Sweeter grows his love alway,
It is hallelujah all the way.
2 Tho’ each flower has its thorn,
And each day some woe is born,
It is hallelujah all the way;
Sorrow but the gold refines,
More to him my heart inclines,
It is hallelujah all the way. [Chorus]
3 Ev’ry day new heights I gain,
And to deeper joy attain,
It is hallelujah all the way;
Perfect peace my soul has found,
Earth seems like enchanted ground,
It is hallelujah all the way. [Chorus]
Source: Songs for Work and Worship #129
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.
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