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My Soul is Filled with Singing

Author: W. C. Martin Appears in 10 hymnals First Line: Before I found my Saviour I had a load of care Topics: Heaven, Home; Joy, Happiness; Praise Used With Tune: [Before I found my Saviour I had a load of care]

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[Before I found my Savior]

Appears in 6 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Edward M. Fuller Incipit: 55671 17676 56555 Used With Text: My Soul Is Filled With Singing

[Before I found the Saviour I had a load of care]

Appears in 2 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Lue Reed Middlebrook Incipit: 53564 35561 76553 Used With Text: Filled With Sunshine

[Before I found my Savior I had a load of care]

Appears in 1 hymnal Composer and/or Arranger: Rev. Elisha A. Hoffman Incipit: 13556 53123 45655 Used With Text: Bright Sunshine

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Bright Sunshine

Author: Rev. W. C. Martin Hymnal: Sacred Chimes #55 (1900) First Line: Before I found my Savior I had a load of care Refrain First Line: Bright sunshine, glad sunshine now floods my pilgrim way Languages: English Tune Title: [Before I found my Savior I had a load of care]

My Soul is Filled with Singing

Author: W. C. Martin Hymnal: Famous Hymns #102 (1907) First Line: Before I found my Saviour I had a load of care Topics: Heaven, Home; Joy, Happiness; Praise Languages: English Tune Title: [Before I found my Saviour I had a load of care]

Filled With Sunshine

Author: Rev. W. C. Martin Hymnal: Evangelistic Edition of Heavenly Sunlight #64 (1900) First Line: Before I found my Saviour I had a load of care Refrain First Line: My soul is fill'd with sunshine Languages: English Tune Title: [Before I found my Saviour I had a load of care]

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E. A. Hoffman

1839 - 1929 Person Name: Rev. Elisha A. Hoffman Composer of "[Before I found my Savior I had a load of care]" in Sacred Chimes 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) ==============

W. C. Martin

1864 - 1914 Author of "My Soul is Filled With Singing" in Alexander's New Revival Hymns Rv William Clark Martin USA 1864-1914. Born at Hightstown, NJ, he graduated from the Peddie Institute in Hightstown in 1884, and in 1891 from the Crozer Theological Seminary, Upland, PA. He became minister of the Grace Baptist Church, Camden, NJ,(1891-1894); Noank Baptist Church, Noank, CT (1894-1900); Tabernacle Baptist Church, New Albany, IN (1902-1904); First Baptist Church, Seymour, IN (1902-1904); First Baptist Church, Bluffton, IN (1904-1909); Grace Baptist Church, Somerville, MA (1909-1912); and First Baptist Church, Fort Myers, FL (1912-1914). In 1891 he married Euretta (Etta) May Wilcox, and they had at least three children (no names found). He penned many hymn lyrics. He died of heart failure at his farm in Rialto, FL. John Perry