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[The joy I feel today] (Hoffman/Excell)

Appears in 2 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Elisha Albright Hoffman; E. O. Excell Tune Key: A Major Incipit: 13217 67156 61765

So Wondrously Redeemed

Author: E. A. H. Appears in 5 hymnals First Line: The joy I feel today Refrain First Line: Redeemed, redeemed Used With Tune: [The joy I feel today]

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Author: E. A. H. Hymnal: Triumphant Songs No.1 #138 (1887) First Line: The joy I feel today Refrain First Line: Redeemed, redeemed Lyrics: 1 The joy I feel today No mortal could have dreamed; My heart is full of song, My heart is full of song, For I have been redeemed, So wondrously redeemed. Refrain: Redeemed, redeemed, Son wondrously redeemed, Redeemed, redeemed, So wondrously redeemed. 2 No more I serve the world; How sweet its pleasures seemed! I follow now my Lord, I follow now my Lord, By whom I am redeemed, So wondrously redeemed. [Refrain] 3 Within my happy heart The heav’nly light has beamed, And I have wondrous love, And I have wondrous love, For I have been redeemed, So wondrously redeemed. [Refrain] Languages: English Tune Title: [The joy I feel today]

So Wondrously Redeemed

Author: E. A. H. Hymnal: Triumphant Songs Nos. 1 and 2 Combined #157 (1890) First Line: The joy I feel today Refrain First Line: Redeemed, redeemed Languages: English Tune Title: [The joy I feel today]

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E. A. Hoffman

1839 - 1929 Person Name: E. A. H. Author of "So Wondrously Redeemed" in Triumphant Songs No.1 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. O. Excell

1851 - 1921 Composer of "[The joy I feel today]" in Triumphant Songs No.1 Edwin Othello Excel USA 1851-1921. Born at Uniontown, OH, he started working as a bricklayer and plasterer. He loved music and went to Chicago to study it under George Root. He married Eliza Jane “Jennie” Bell in 1871. They had a son, William, in 1874. A member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, he became a prominent publisher, composer, song leader, and singer of music for church, Sunday school, and evangelistic meetings. He founded singing schools at various locations in the country and worked with evangelist, Sam Jones, as his song leader for two decades. He established a music publishing house in Chicago and authored or composed over 2,000 gospel songs. While assisting Gypsy Smith in an evangelistic campaign in Louisville, KY, he became ill, and died in Chicago, IL. He published 15 gospel music books between 1882-1925. He left an estate valued at $300,000. John Perry