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The Gospel Hymnal #66
Display Title: I Am Going Home First Line: Beyond the dark, mysterious river Tune Title: [Beyond the dark, mysterious river] Author: Rev. E. A. Hoffman Date: 1899
The Gospel Hymnal #66
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I Am Going Home
Beyond the dark, mysterious river
Author: Elisha A. HoffmanTune: [Down at the cross, on Calvary's mountain]
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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Triumphant Songs No.2 #6
Display Title: I am going Home First Line: Beyond the dark, mysterious river Tune Title: [Beyond the dark, mysterious river] Author: Rev. E. A. Hoffman Date: 1889
Triumphant Songs No.2 #6
Triumphant Songs Nos. 1 and 2 Combined #224
Display Title: I Am Going Home First Line: Beyond the dark, mysterious river Tune Title: [Beyond the dark, mysterious river] Author: Rev. E. A. Hoffman Date: 1890
Triumphant Songs Nos. 1 and 2 Combined #224
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