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[Oh wondrously sweet is the story]

Appears in 7 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: William T. Giffe, b. 1848 Incipit: 55653 21135 56532 Used With Text: Sweet Is the Story

Author: E. A. Hoffman Appears in 8 hymnals First Line: Oh! wondrously sweet is the story Refrain First Line: The story grows sweet and sweeter Used With Tune: [Oh! wondrously sweet is the story]

Tan bella es esta historia

Author: Elisha Hoffman; Gospel Publishers Appears in 1 hymnal Refrain First Line: Es siempre más bella historia Used With Tune: [Tan bella es esta historia]

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Sweet Is the Story

Author: E. A. Hoffman Hymnal: Golden Songs of Glory #11 (1906) First Line: Oh! wondrously sweet is the story Refrain First Line: The story grows sweet and sweeter Languages: English Tune Title: [Oh! wondrously sweet is the story]

Sweet Is the Story

Author: Rev. E. A. Hoffman Hymnal: Glory Bells #18 (1896) First Line: O, wondrously sweet is the story that Jesus came down from above Refrain First Line: The story grows sweeter and sweeter Languages: English Tune Title: [O, wondrously sweet is the story that Jesus came down from above]

Sweet Is the Story

Author: Rev. E. A. Hoffman Hymnal: Gospel Songs and Hymns No. 1 #48 (1898) First Line: O, wondrously sweet is the story Refrain First Line: The story grows sweeter and sweeter Languages: English Tune Title: [O, wondrously sweet is the story]

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E. A. Hoffman

1839 - 1929 Person Name: Elisha A. Hoffman, 1839-1929 Author of "Sweet Is the Story" in Christian Hymnal (Rev. ed.) 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) ==============

W. T. Giffe

1848 - 1926 Person Name: William T. Giffe, b. 1848 Composer of "[Oh wondrously sweet is the story]" in Christian Hymnal (Rev. ed.) Born: June 28, 1848, Portland, Indiana. Died: July 13, 1926, Seattle, Washington. Buried: Mount Hope Cemetery, Logansport, Indiana. Giffe grew up in College Corners, Indiana (near Portland), and served in the Army during the closing days of the American civil war. After the war, he attended Liber College, and studied law for two years. While in college, he was a member of the college glee club, and took lessons in the college singing school. Later, he studied with teachers such as J. W. Suffern, George Root, Luther Emerson, Horatio Palmer, and Henry Perkins. Giffe had a fine baritone voice, and was in demand as a concert singer. He soon became popular as a chorus director and convention conductor. His first book for singing schools was New Favorite, which sold thousands of copies. The Oliver Ditson Company of Boston, Massachusetts, published many of his early works, but Giffe went on to form his own publishing house, the Home Music Company, in Logansport, Indiana. He also edited the Home Music Journal for several years. Later, Giffe became supervisor of music in the public schools in his home town. And he was one of three men selected to deliver an address in Logansport, Indiana, at the memorial services for assassinated president William McKinley. Giffe and his wife Nancy had no children. His works include: The Brilliant, 1874 Crown of Gold, with Frank Davis (Logansport, Indiana: Home Music Company, 1892) The New Deal, with Louis Eichhorn (Logansport, Indiana: Home Music Company, 1898) A Practical Course in Harmony and Musical Composition --www.hymntime.com/tch