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What a Wonderful Savior!

Author: Elisha A. Hoffman Appears in 5 hymnals First Line: He saves the sinner from his sins Refrain First Line: What a wonderful Savior is Jesus

[He saves the sinner from his sins]

Appears in 135 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Elisha A. Hoffman Incipit: 51155 76544 32155 Used With Text: What a Wonderful Saviour!

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Author: Rev. E. A. H. Hymnal: Fount of Blessing #124b (1880) First Line: He saves the sinner from his sins Refrain First Line: What a wonderful Savior is Jesus Languages: English Tune Title: [He saves the sinner from his sins]

What a Wonderful Saviour!

Author: E. A. H. Hymnal: The New Jubilee Harp #433 (1885) First Line: He saves the sinner from his sins Refrain First Line: What a wonderful Saviour is Jesus Languages: English Tune Title: [He saves the sinner from his sins]

What a Wonderful Saviour!

Author: E. A. H. Hymnal: The New Jubilee Harp #433 (1888) First Line: He saves the sinner from his sins Refrain First Line: What a wonderful Saviour is Jesus Languages: English Tune Title: [He saves the sinner from his sins]

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E. A. Hoffman

1839 - 1929 Person Name: E. A. H. Author of "What a Wonderful Saviour!" in The New Jubilee Harp 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) ==============