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I Am Bound for the Kingdom

Author: M. Lowrie Hofford Appears in 3 hymnals First Line: I am bound for the kingdom, I am pressing on my way

[I am bound for the kingdom]

Appears in 1 hymnal Composer and/or Arranger: H. M. Incipit: 12333 35432 22323 Used With Text: I Am Bound for the Kingdom

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I Am Bound for the Kingdom

Author: Rev. M. Lowrie Hofford Hymnal: Gospel Melodies #110 (1884) Languages: English Tune Title: [I am bound for the kingdom]

1825 - 1888 Author of "I Am Bound for the Kingdom" Born: January 27, 1825, Doylestown, Pennsylvania. Died: January 9, 1888, Trenton, New Jersey. Hofford attended Lafayette and Princeton, where he graduated in 1849. He studied theology at the Princeton seminary for a year, and became principal of the Camden collegiate institute. While there, he organized a church at Beverly, New Jersey, being licensed by the Presbytery in Philadelphia in 1852. In 1855, he was ordained an evangelist in Burlington, New Jersey. In 1860, he began teaching at the Trenton Institute, and in 1863 took charge of a military institute at Allentown, Pennsylvania that was later incorporated as Muhlenberg College; he served there as a professor and later president. He taught and pastored at Camden and Beverly, New Jersey, and Doylestown, Pennsylvania (1868-78), then became pastor at Morrisville, Pennsylvania. --www.hymntime.com/tch