Blessed Are They

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Blessed are they that do His commandments

Author: E. A. Hoffman
Published in 15 hymnals

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1 Blessed are they that do his commandments,
Blessed are they, Blessed are they,
Blessed are they that do his commandments,
That they may have right to the tree of life,
and may enter in, enter in.
Thro' the gates into the city,
Thro' the gates, the gates into the city.

Source: Joyful Songs: a choice collection of new Sunday School music #114

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Author: E. 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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First Line:	Blessed are they that do His commandments
Title:	Blessed Are They
Author:	E. A. Hoffman
Language:	English
Refrain First Line:	Blessed are they, blessed are they
Copyright:	Public Domain