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The Hour of Prayer
Author: Rev. E. A. Hoffman Appears in 2 hymnals First Line: How sweet the hour of pray'r Refrain First Line: O holy place of pray'r! Used With Tune: [How sweet the hour of pray'r]
The Hour of Prayer
[How sweet the hour of pray'r]
Appears in 1 hymnal Composer and/or Arranger: Rev. C. B. Widmeyer Incipit: 13331 53444 23134 Used With Text: The Hour of Prayer
[How sweet the hour of pray'r]
The hour of prayer
Author: Elisha Hoffman Hymnal: Songs of the Pentecostal Flame #d33 (1914) First Line: How sweet the hour of prayer, when we each other greet Refrain First Line: O holy place of prayer Languages: English
The hour of prayer
The Hour of Prayer
Author: Rev. E. A. Hoffman Hymnal: Rose of Sharon Hymns #106 (1917) First Line: How sweet the hour of pray'r Refrain First Line: O holy place of pray'r! Languages: English Tune Title: [How sweet the hour of pray'r]
The Hour of Prayer
E. A. Hoffman
1839 - 1929 Person Name: Elisha A. Hoffman Author of "The Hour of Prayer" 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
Charles B. Widmeyer
1884 - 1974 Person Name: Rev. C. B. Widmeyer Composer of "[How sweet the hour of pray'r]" in Rose of Sharon Hymns Widmeyer, Charles B. (Berkeley Springs, West Virginia, 1884--California, December 14, 1974). Studied vocal music from age 12 under J.M. Cowgill; at age 15 began teaching classes of his own. First song was written at age 15. The first one published, "Upon the Cross," was written at age 20.
Bachelor of Music degree from Bethany-Peniel, Bethany, Oklahoma. Wrote more than 350 songs; edited or contributed to many songbooks. "Come and Dine" was written following the reading of John 21:12 and his meditation on the similarity between the tired, hungry disciples and people of his day both spiritually and physically hungry; translated into Spanish, Japanese, Chinese, Arabic, and Serbian.
--E. Roger Taylor, DNAH Archives
Charles B. Widmeyer
