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O, the Glad, Good News

Author: Elisha A. Hoffman Appears in 8 hymnals First Line: Hear the message from above Refrain First Line: O, the blessed message
O, the Glad, Good News

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[Hear the message from above]

Appears in 4 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Rev. Elisha A. Hoffman Incipit: 55315 53113 22553 Used With Text: Oh, the Glad, Good News!
[Hear the message from above]

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Oh, the Glad, Good News

Author: E. A. H. Hymnal: Sweet Harmonies #74 (1896) First Line: Hear the message from above Refrain First Line: Oh, the blessed message! Languages: English Tune Title: [Hear the message from above]
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Oh, the Glad, Good News!

Author: E. A. H. Hymnal: Favorite Gospel Songs #105 (1894) First Line: Hear the message from above Refrain First Line: Oh, the blessed message Languages: English Tune Title: [Hear the message from above]
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Oh, the Glad, Good News

Author: E. A. H. Hymnal: Celestial Showers No. 1, a collection of gospel songs used in Rev. I. Toliver's Meetings #116 (1895) First Line: Hear the message from above Refrain First Line: Oh, the blessed message Languages: English Tune Title: [Hear the message from above]
Oh, the Glad, Good News

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E. A. Hoffman

1839 - 1929 Person Name: E. A. H. Author of "Oh, the Glad, Good News" in Celestial Showers No. 1, a collection of gospel songs used in Rev. I. Toliver's Meetings 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) ==============
E. A. Hoffman
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