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Display Title: Yes, flash the news along the line First Line: How goes the battle, comrades Author: Elisha A. Hoffman; Elisha Albright Hoffman Date: 1890
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Flash the News Along the Line
How goes the battle, comrades?
Author: Elisha A. HoffmanTune: [How goes the battle, comrades?]
Published in 3 hymnals
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.
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Fount of Blessing #88
Display Title: Flash the News Along the Line First Line: How goes the battle, comrades? Tune Title: [How goes the battle, comrades?] Author: Rev. E. A. Hoffman Date: 1880
Fount of Blessing #88
Spicy Breezes #134
Display Title: Flash the News along the Line First Line: How goes the battle, comrades? Tune Title: [How goes the battle, comrades?] Author: Rev. E. A. Hoffman Date: 1883
Spicy Breezes #134
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