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[Though the cross for him I bear]

Appears in 2 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: E. S. Lorenz Incipit: 12355 56461 17651

Author: Rev. Elisha A. Hoffman Appears in 3 hymnals First Line: Though the cross for him I bear Refrain First Line: Hallelujah, naught can hide Used With Tune: [Though the cross for him I bear]

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Hallelujah All the Way

Author: Rev. Elisha A. Hoffman Hymnal: The Voice of Melody #91 (1900) First Line: Though the cross for him I bear Refrain First Line: Hallelujah, naught can hide Languages: English Tune Title: [Though the cross for him I bear]

Hallelujah All the Way

Author: Rev. Elisha A. Hoffman Hymnal: Songs for Work and Worship #129 (1900) First Line: Tho' the cross for him I bear Refrain First Line: Hallelujah! Naught can hide my Savior's face Lyrics: 1 Tho’ the cross for him I bear, And reproach with him I share, It is hallelujah all the way; Long as I behold his face, Taste his love and share his grace, It is hallelujah all the way. Chorus: Hallelujah! Naught can hide my Savior’s face; Hallelujah! Pure his love, and sweet his grace; Brighter dawns each coming day, Sweeter grows his love alway, It is hallelujah all the way. 2 Tho’ each flower has its thorn, And each day some woe is born, It is hallelujah all the way; Sorrow but the gold refines, More to him my heart inclines, It is hallelujah all the way. [Chorus] 3 Ev’ry day new heights I gain, And to deeper joy attain, It is hallelujah all the way; Perfect peace my soul has found, Earth seems like enchanted ground, It is hallelujah all the way. [Chorus] Topics: Christian Joy Languages: English Tune Title: [Tho' the cross for him I bear]

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E. A. Hoffman

1839 - 1929 Person Name: Rev. Elisha A. Hoffman Author of "Hallelujah All the Way" in The Voice of Melody 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) ==============

Edmund S. Lorenz

1854 - 1942 Person Name: E. S. Lorenz Composer of "[Though the cross for him I bear]" in The Voice of Melody Pseudonymns: John D. Cresswell, L. S. Edwards, E. D. Mund, ==================== Lorenz, Edmund Simon. (North Lawrence, Stark County, Ohio, July 13, 1854--July 10, 1942, Dayton, Ohio). Son of Edward Lorenz, a German-born shoemaker who turned preacher, served German immigrants in northwestern Ohio, and was editor of the church paper, Froehliche Botschafter, 1894-1900. Edmund graduated from Toledo High School in 1870, taught German, and was made a school principal at a salary of $20 per week. At age 19, he moved to Dayton to become the music editor for the United Brethren Publishing House. He graduated from Otterbein College (B.A.) in 1880, studied at Union Biblical Seminary, 1878-1881, then went to Yale Divinity School where he graduated (B.D.) in 1883. He then spent a year studying theology in Leipzig, Germany. He was ordained by the Miami [Ohio] Conference of the United Brethren in Christ in 1877. The following year, he married Florence Kumler, with whom he had five children. Upon his return to the United States, he served as pastor of the High Street United Brethren Church in Dayton, 1884-1886, and then as president of Lebanon Valley College, 1887-1889. Ill health led him to resign his presidency. In 1890 he founded the Lorenz Publishing Company of Dayton, to which he devoted the remainder of his life. For their catalog, he wrote hymns, and composed many gospel songs, anthems, and cantatas, occasionally using pseudonyms such as E.D. Mund, Anna Chichester, and G.M. Dodge. He edited three of the Lorenz choir magazines, The Choir Leader, The Choir Herald, and Kirchenchor. Prominent among the many song-books and hymnals which he compiled and edited were those for his church: Hymns for the Sanctuary and Social Worship (1874), Pilgerlieder (1878), Songs of Grace (1879), The Otterbein Hymnal (1890), and The Church Hymnal (1934). For pastors and church musicians, he wrote several books stressing hymnody: Practical Church Music (1909), Church Music (1923), Music in Work and Worship (1925), and The Singing Church (1938). In 1936, Otterbein College awarded him the honorary D.Mus. degree and Lebanon Valley College the honorary LL.D. degree. --Information from granddaughter Ellen Jane Lorenz Porter, DNAH Archives