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We Sing of a City

Author: Elisha A. Hoffman Appears in 4 hymnals First Line: We sing of a city whose streets are of gold Refrain First Line: O sweet, happy home

[We sing of a city whose streets are of gold]

Appears in 4 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: H. R. Palmer Incipit: 53322 17653 55112 Used With Text: We Sing of a City

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We Sing of a City whose Streets are of Gold

Author: E. A. Hoffman Hymnal: Select Sunday School Songs #136 (1885) Refrain First Line: O sweet, happy home Languages: English Tune Title: [We sing of a city whose streets are of gold]

We Sing of a City

Author: E. A. Hoffman Hymnal: Garnered Gems #78 (1892) First Line: We sing of a city whose streets are of gold Refrain First Line: O sweet, happy home Languages: English Tune Title: [We sing of a city whose streets are of gold]

The City of Our King

Author: Rev. E. A. Hoffman Hymnal: Songs of Glory-Land #71 (1880) First Line: We sing of a city whose streets are of gold Refrain First Line: Oh, home, happy home Languages: English Tune Title: [We sing of a city whose streets are of gold]

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E. A. Hoffman

1839 - 1929 Author of "We Sing of a City" in Garnered Gems 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) ==============

H. R. Palmer

1834 - 1907 Composer of "[We sing of a city whose streets are of gold]" in Garnered Gems Palmer, Horatio Richmond, MUS. DOC, was born April 26, 1834. He is the author of several works on the theory of music; and the editor of some musical editions of hymnbooks. To the latter he contributed numerous tunes, some of which have attained to great popularity, and 5 of which are in I. D. Sankey's Sacred Songs and Solos, London, 1881. His publications include Songs of Love for the Bible School; and Book of Anthems, the combined sale of which has exceeded one million copies. As a hymnwriter he is known by his "Yield not to temptation," which was written in 1868, and published in the National Sunday School Teachers' Magazine, from which it passed, with music by the author, into his Songs of Love, &c, 1874, and other collections. In America its use is extensive. Dr. Palmer's degree was conferred by the University of Chicago in 1880. -- John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907) =============== Palmer, H. R., p. 877, i. The hymn "Would you gain the best in life" (Steadfastness), in the Congregational Sunday School Supplement, 1891, the Council School Hymn Book, 1905, and others, is by this author. --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, New Supplement (1907)