On the Way to Heaven

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I am on my way to heaven, where my best possessions are

Author: E. A. Hoffman
Tune: [I am on my way to heaven, where my best possessions are]
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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:	I am on my way to heaven, where my best possessions are
Title:	On the Way to Heaven
Author:	E. A. Hoffman
Language:	English
Refrain First Line:	May I reach the heavenly Kingdom
Publication Date:	1892
Copyright:	This text is in the public domain in the United States because it was published before 1930.