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There are angels arrayed in white

Author: Elisha A. Hoffman
Tune: [There are angels arrayed in white]
Published in 6 hymnals

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1 There are angels arrayed in white,
There, there, over, over there,
And their wings are bathed in light
There, over, over there.
I'm a pilgrim to that land,
To that blest happy land,
And I hope ere long
I may join that throng
In the happy glory-land.
There are angels arrayed in white,
There, there, over, over there,
And their wings are bathed in light
There, over, over there.

2 There are mansions prepared above,
There, there, over, over there,
In the land of peace and love,
There, over, over there.
There's a mansion there for me,
Over death's raging sea,
And I fondly hope
Soon its gates will ope,
And its glory I shall see.
There are mansions prepared above,
There, there, over, over there,
In the land of peace and love,
There, over, over there.

3 Jesus sits on the great White Throne,
There, there, over, over there,
And he claims me as his own,
There, over, over there.
He sustains me by his grace
In my brief, earthly race,
And I soon shall rest
On his loving breast,
And shall see him face to face.
Jesus sits on the great White Throne,
There, there, over, over there,
And he claims me as his own,
There, over, over there.

Source: The Evergreen: songs for the Sunday school, sanctuary and home circle #104

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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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