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Hallelujah Song

Author: Elisha A. Hoffman Appears in 2 hymnals First Line: I have peace within my soul, hallelujah! Refrain First Line: Hallelujah! Hallelujah!

[I have peace within my soul, hallelujah!]

Appears in 1 hymnal Composer and/or Arranger: Rev. Elisha A. Hoffman Incipit: 55111 11123 15522 Used With Text: Hallelujah Song

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Author: E. A. H. Hymnal: Songs of the Mercy Seat #116 (1899) First Line: I have peace within my soul, hallelujah! Refrain First Line: Hallelujah! Hallelujah! Languages: English Tune Title: [I have peace within my soul, hallelujah!]

Hallelujah, forever

Author: Elisha A. Hoffman; Elisha Albright Hoffman Hymnal: The Heavenly Echoes #d37 (1900) First Line: I have peace within my soul

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E. A. Hoffman

1839 - 1929 Person Name: Elisha A. Hoffman Author of "Hallelujah Song" 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) ==============