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[O'er life's billows flying, wind and wave defying]

Appears in 3 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Samuel W. Beazley, 1873- Incipit: 35353 54646 46465 Used With Text: Roll, Billows, Roll

Author: Rev. E. A. Hoffman Appears in 6 hymnals First Line: O'er life's billows flying Refrain First Line: Roll, roll, billows, roll Topics: The Christian Trial and Conflict Used With Tune: [O'er life's billows flying]

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Roll, Billows, Roll

Author: Rev. E. A. Hoffman Hymnal: Hosannas #94 (1917) First Line: O'er life's billows flying, wind and wave defying Refrain First Line: Roll, roll, billows roll Languages: English Tune Title: [O'er life's billows flying, wind and wave defying]

Roll, Billows, Roll

Author: Rev. E. A. Hoffman Hymnal: Service Hymnal #417 (1925) First Line: O'er life's billows flying, wind and wave defying Refrain First Line: Roll, roll, billows, roll Languages: English Tune Title: [O'er life's billows flying, wind and wave defying]

Roll, Billows, Roll

Author: Rev. E. A. Hoffman Hymnal: The Baptist Standard Hymnal #417 (1924) First Line: O'er life's billows flying Refrain First Line: Roll, roll, billows, roll Topics: The Christian Trial and Conflict Languages: English Tune Title: [O'er life's billows flying]

People

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E. A. Hoffman

1839 - 1929 Person Name: Rev. E. A. Hoffman Author of "Roll, Billows, Roll" in Hosannas 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) ==============

Samuel W. Beazley

1873 - 1944 Composer of "[O'er life's billows flying, wind and wave defying]" in Hosannas Samuel W. Beazley was born in Sparta, Virginia in 1873. He was a music scholar and taught music at Shenandoah College for five years. He composed over 4,000 gospel songs during his lifetime. Samuel W. Beazley maintained a successful publishing business in Chicago, Illinois. He died in Chicago on September 16, 1944. He was inducted into the Gospel Music Hall of Fame in 1992. NN, Hymnary editor. Source: www.gmahalloffame.org