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The Very Best for Jesus
Author: E. A. H. Appears in 8 hymnals First Line: Give to Christ your best affection! Refrain First Line: Give the very best to Jesus Used With Tune: [Give to Christ your best affection!]
The Very Best for Jesus
[Give to Christ your best affection]
Appears in 5 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: J. H. Leslie Incipit: 51231 17665 51231 Used With Text: The Very Best for Jesus
[Give to Christ your best affection]
The Very Best for Jesus
Author: E. A. Hoffman Hymnal: Spiritual Songs No. 2 #18 (1883) First Line: Give to Christ your best affection! Refrain First Line: Give the very best to Jesus Languages: English Tune Title: [Give to Christ your best affection!]
The Very Best for Jesus
The Very Best for Jesus
Author: E. A. Hoffman Hymnal: New Spiritual Songs #98 (1887) First Line: Give to Christ your best affection! Refrain First Line: Give the very best to Jesus Languages: English Tune Title: [Give to Christ your best affection!]
The Very Best for Jesus
The Very Best for Jesus
Author: E. A. H. Hymnal: Royal Gems #131 (1880) First Line: Give to Christ your best affection! Refrain First Line: Give the very best to Jesus Languages: English Tune Title: [Give to Christ your best affection!]
The Very Best for Jesus
E. A. Hoffman
1839 - 1929 Person Name: E. A. H. Author of "The Very Best for Jesus" in Celestial Showers No. 1, a collection of gospel songs used in Rev. I. Toliver's Meetings 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
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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)
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E. A. Hoffman
J. H. Leslie
Composer of "[Give to Christ your best affection]" in Celestial Showers No. 1, a collection of gospel songs used in Rev. I. Toliver's Meetings
J. H. Leslie
