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O Savior, Bless Thou Me

Author: Elisha A. Hoffman Appears in 2 hymnals First Line: A call from Jesus comes to me Refrain First Line: I hear Thy call, dear Lord

[A call from Jesus comes to me]

Appears in 2 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: R. G. Staples Incipit: 53217 67155 67123 Used With Text: O Saviour, Bless Thou Me

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Author: Rev. E. A. Hoffman Hymnal: Loving Voices #123 (1887) First Line: A call from Jesus comes to me Refrain First Line: I hear thy call, dear Lord Languages: English Tune Title: [A call from Jesus comes to me]

O Saviour, Bless Thou Me

Author: Rev. E. A. Hoffman Hymnal: The Banner of Victory #123 (1881) First Line: A call from Jesus comes to me Refrain First Line: I hear Thy call, dear Lord Languages: English Tune Title: [A call from Jesus comes to me]

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E. A. Hoffman

1839 - 1929 Person Name: Elisha A. Hoffman Author of "O Savior, Bless Thou Me" 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) ==============

R. G. Staples

b. 1833 Composer of "[A call from Jesus comes to me]" in Loving Voices Robert Griffin Staples. He was born Robert Griffin on January 24, 1833 in Washington DC. Both of his parents died in a carriage accident when he was an infant; he was then adopted by his mother's sister, Mary Ann King, and her husband, Samuel Johnson Staples and he was given the name Robert Griffin Staples. He was a captain in the Union Army during the Civil War and after the war was promoted to Major. He then worked as chief clerk in the Portsmouth United States Navy Yard. Religion was an important part of his life, as well as music. He died June 20, 1891 in Portsmouth, VA. Dianne Shapiro, from Jean Brickey (great-granddaughter)