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Author: Rev. E. A. Hoffman Appears in 2 hymnals First Line: I think of a home that is wondrously bright Refrain First Line: That home is for me! Used With Tune: [I think of a home that is wondrously bright]

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[I think of a home that is wondrously bright]

Appears in 2 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Asa Hull Incipit: 12333 31233 33345 Used With Text: That Home Is for Me

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That Home Is for Me

Author: Rev. E. A. Hoffman Hymnal: The Jewelled Crown #58 (1891) First Line: I think of a home that is wondrously bright Refrain First Line: That home is for me! Topics: Heaven Languages: English Tune Title: [I think of a home that is wondrously bright]

That Home Is for Me

Author: Rev. E. A. Hoffman Hymnal: Gleanings of Sacred Song #181 (1892) First Line: I think of a home that is wondrously bright Refrain First Line: That home is for me! Languages: English Tune Title: [I think of a home that is wondrously bright]

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E. A. Hoffman

1839 - 1929 Person Name: Elisha A. Hoffman Author of "That Home Is for Me" 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) ==============

Asa Hull

1828 - 1907 Composer of "[I think of a home that is wondrously bright]" in Gleanings of Sacred Song Asa Hull USA 1828-1907. Born in Keene, NY, he became a music publisher in New York City. He married Emma F Atherton, and they had a daughter, Harriett. He wrote many tunes and authored temperance rallying songs. He published 33 works, of which 21 were songbooks, between 1863-1895. He died in Philadelphia, PA. John Perry