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A Little Longer Labor On

Author: E. A. H. Appears in 2 hymnals First Line: Be earnest, toiler for the Lord! Refrain First Line: The crown, the crown Used With Tune: [Be earnest, toiler for the Lord!]

[Be earnest, toiler for the Lord]

Appears in 2 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Rev. Elisha A. Hoffman Incipit: 11234 56535 65433 Used With Text: Sowing the Precious Seed

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Author: E. A. Hoffman Hymnal: Fair as the Morning. Hymns and Tunes for Praise in the Sunday-School #180 (1891) First Line: Be earnest, toiler for the Lord Lyrics: 1 Be earnest, toiler for the Lord, Sowing the precious seed; Look forward to the blest reward, Sowing the precious seed. Refrain: Sowing the precious seed, Sowing the precious seed, Be faithful in the vineyard labor, Sowing the precious seed. 2 The laborers are very few, Sowing the precious seed; And the dear Lord has need of you, Sowing the precious seed. [Refrain] 3 O labor patiently each day, Sowing the precious seed; And for the Father’s blessing pray, Sowing the precious seed. [Refrain] 4 Will you not enter now the field, Sowing the precious seed, In hope of an abundant yield, Sowing the precious seed. [Refrain] Topics: Activity and Work; Sowing and Reaping Languages: English Tune Title: [Be earnest, toiler for the Lord]

A Little Longer Labor On

Author: E. A. H. Hymnal: Words of Truth #67 (1892) First Line: Be earnest, toiler for the Lord! Refrain First Line: The crown, the crown Languages: English Tune Title: [Be earnest, toiler for the Lord!]

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E. A. Hoffman

1839 - 1929 Person Name: Elisha A. Hoffman Author of "A Little Longer Labor On" 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) ==============