O Help Me On My Way

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I journey to a better land

Author: Elisha A. Hoffman
Tune: [I journey to a better land]
Published in 2 hymnals

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1 I journey to a better land
Of bright eternal day,
The home of infinite delight;
Lord, help me on my way.

Refrain:
O help me on my way,
Lord, help me on my way;
Reach forth thy kind and loving hand,
And help me on my way.

2 The way is narrow, and the thorns
Have pierc’d my bleeding feet,
But I will journey till I reach
The city’s golden street. [Refrain]

3 Then shall I rest from weariness,
From sin and sorrow free,
And, in the presence of my Lord,
Forever blessed be. [Refrain]

4 The way will not seem hard or long,
If thou wilt walk with me,
For I shall sing my pilgrim song,
And ever joyful be. [Refrain]

Source: Triumphant Songs No.2 #185

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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. Mary Louise VanDyke… Go to person page >

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First Line:	I journey to a better land
Title:	O Help Me On My Way
Author:	Elisha A. Hoffman
Language:	English
Refrain First Line:	O help me on my way, Lord
Copyright:	Public Domain