So Wondrously Redeemed

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The joy I feel today

Author: Elisha A. Hoffman
Tune: [The joy I feel today] (Hoffman/Excell)
Published in 5 hymnals

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1 The joy I feel today
No mortal could have dreamed;
My heart is full of song,
My heart is full of song,
For I have been redeemed,
So wondrously redeemed.

Refrain:
Redeemed, redeemed,
Son wondrously redeemed,
Redeemed, redeemed,
So wondrously redeemed.

2 No more I serve the world;
How sweet its pleasures seemed!
I follow now my Lord,
I follow now my Lord,
By whom I am redeemed,
So wondrously redeemed. [Refrain]

3 Within my happy heart
The heav’nly light has beamed,
And I have wondrous love,
And I have wondrous love,
For I have been redeemed,
So wondrously redeemed. [Refrain]

Source: Triumphant Songs No.1 #138

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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:	The joy I feel today
Title:	So Wondrously Redeemed
Author:	Elisha A. Hoffman
Language:	English
Refrain First Line:	Redeemed, redeemed
Copyright:	Public Domain