An Heir to a Throne

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An heir to a throne am I

Author: Elisha A. Hoffman
Tune: [An heir to a throne am I]
Published in 2 hymnals

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1 An heir to a throne am I,
In the kingdom of God on high;
For we shall be kings and be priests, we are told,
In his palace, on thrones of Gold,
In his palace, on thrones of Gold.

2 For joy let my spirit sing!
I’m a child of a royal King,
And soon shall inherit a kingdom above,
In the land of eternal love,
In the land of eternal love.

3 How can I express my joy?
O my soul, all thy pow’rs employ,
The wonderful love of the Lord to make known,
Thro’ whose soul-cleansing blood alone,
I’m an heir to a royal throne.

4 Let me live as becomes a son
Of the high and the holy One!
My life—be it such that to all may be known,
I’m the child of a King, his own,
And an heir to a heav’nly throne.

Source: Triumphant Songs No.1 #104

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Author: Elisha A. Hoffman

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… Go to person page >

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