We're traveling toward a country bright

We're traveling toward a country bright

Author: M. Lowrie Hofford
Published in 2 hymnals

Author: M. Lowrie Hofford

Born: January 27, 1825, Doylestown, Pennsylvania. Died: January 9, 1888, Trenton, New Jersey. Hofford attended Lafayette and Princeton, where he graduated in 1849. He studied theology at the Princeton seminary for a year, and became principal of the Camden collegiate institute. While there, he organized a church at Beverly, New Jersey, being licensed by the Presbytery in Philadelphia in 1852. In 1855, he was ordained an evangelist in Burlington, New Jersey. In 1860, he began teaching at the Trenton Institute, and in 1863 took charge of a military institute at Allentown, Pennsylvania that was later incorporated as Muhlenberg College; he served there as a professor and later president. He taught and pastored at Camden and Beverly, New Jer… Go to person page >

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First Line: We're traveling toward a country bright
Author: M. Lowrie Hofford
Refrain First Line: We'll all fight for the victory
Copyright: Public Domain

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Second Advent Hymn Book #d118

The Children's Hallelujah #d168

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