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[O, the blessed Word of God]

Appears in 4 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: E. S. Lorenz Incipit: 54323 45671 71234 Used With Text: Blessed Words

Author: Rev. E. A. Hoffman; Elisha Albright Hoffman Appears in 4 hymnals First Line: O, the blessed Word of God! as I roam the earth abroad Refrain First Line: 'Tis a lamp, and a light, and it lights the pathway Used With Tune: [O, the blessed Word of God! as I roam the earth abroad]

Gotteswort, du Morgenstern

Author: F. Munz Appears in 3 hymnals Refrain First Line: Gotteswort, Seelenlicht Used With Tune: [Gotteswort, du Morgenstern]

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Blessed Words

Author: Rev. E. A. Hoffman Hymnal: Tried and True #69 (1892) First Line: O, the blessed Word of God Refrain First Line: 'Tis a lamp, and a light, and it lights the pathway Topics: Bible Scripture: Psalm 119:105 Languages: English Tune Title: [O, the blessed Word of God]

Blessed Words

Author: E. A. Hoffman Hymnal: The Standard Sunday School Hymnal #162 (1888) First Line: O, the blessed word of God! Refrain First Line: 'Tis a lamp unto my feet Languages: English Tune Title: [O, the blessed word of God!]

Blessed Words

Author: Rev. E. A. Hoffman; Elisha Albright Hoffman Hymnal: Songs of the Morning #69 (1890) First Line: O, the blessed Word of God! as I roam the earth abroad Refrain First Line: 'Tis a lamp, and a light, and it lights the pathway Languages: English Tune Title: [O, the blessed Word of God! as I roam the earth abroad]

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E. A. Hoffman

1839 - 1929 Person Name: Rev. E. A. Hoffman Author of "Blessed Words" in Tried and True 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) ==============

Edmund S. Lorenz

1854 - 1942 Person Name: E. S. Lorenz Composer of "[O, the blessed Word of God]" in Tried and True Pseudonymns: John D. Cresswell, L. S. Edwards, E. D. Mund, ==================== Lorenz, Edmund Simon. (North Lawrence, Stark County, Ohio, July 13, 1854--July 10, 1942, Dayton, Ohio). Son of Edward Lorenz, a German-born shoemaker who turned preacher, served German immigrants in northwestern Ohio, and was editor of the church paper, Froehliche Botschafter, 1894-1900. Edmund graduated from Toledo High School in 1870, taught German, and was made a school principal at a salary of $20 per week. At age 19, he moved to Dayton to become the music editor for the United Brethren Publishing House. He graduated from Otterbein College (B.A.) in 1880, studied at Union Biblical Seminary, 1878-1881, then went to Yale Divinity School where he graduated (B.D.) in 1883. He then spent a year studying theology in Leipzig, Germany. He was ordained by the Miami [Ohio] Conference of the United Brethren in Christ in 1877. The following year, he married Florence Kumler, with whom he had five children. Upon his return to the United States, he served as pastor of the High Street United Brethren Church in Dayton, 1884-1886, and then as president of Lebanon Valley College, 1887-1889. Ill health led him to resign his presidency. In 1890 he founded the Lorenz Publishing Company of Dayton, to which he devoted the remainder of his life. For their catalog, he wrote hymns, and composed many gospel songs, anthems, and cantatas, occasionally using pseudonyms such as E.D. Mund, Anna Chichester, and G.M. Dodge. He edited three of the Lorenz choir magazines, The Choir Leader, The Choir Herald, and Kirchenchor. Prominent among the many song-books and hymnals which he compiled and edited were those for his church: Hymns for the Sanctuary and Social Worship (1874), Pilgerlieder (1878), Songs of Grace (1879), The Otterbein Hymnal (1890), and The Church Hymnal (1934). For pastors and church musicians, he wrote several books stressing hymnody: Practical Church Music (1909), Church Music (1923), Music in Work and Worship (1925), and The Singing Church (1938). In 1936, Otterbein College awarded him the honorary D.Mus. degree and Lebanon Valley College the honorary LL.D. degree. --Information from granddaughter Ellen Jane Lorenz Porter, DNAH Archives