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Sweet Paradise

Author: I. C. Monroe Appears in 3 hymnals First Line: How sweet to look beyond the stream Refrain First Line: Sweet Paradise!

[How sweet to look beyond the stream]

Appears in 4 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: E. A. Hoffman Incipit: 51113 55532 23215 Used With Text: Sweet Paradise

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Author: I. C. Monroe Hymnal: Spiritual Songs No. 2 #68 (1883) First Line: How sweet to look beyond the stream Refrain First Line: Sweet Paradise! Languages: English Tune Title: [How sweet to look beyond the stream]

Sweet Paradise

Author: I. C. Monroe Hymnal: New Spiritual Songs #148 (1887) First Line: How sweet to look beyond the stream Refrain First Line: Sweet Paradise! Languages: English Tune Title: [How sweet to look beyond the stream]

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E. A. Hoffman

1839 - 1929 Composer of "[How sweet to look beyond the stream]" in New Spiritual Songs 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) ==============