Search Results

I am waiting, calmly waiting

Author: Elisha A. Hoffman; Elisha Albright Hoffman Appears in 2 hymnals First Line: I am waiting for the summons

[I am waiting for the summons]

Appears in 1 hymnal Composer and/or Arranger: Frank M. Davis Used With Text: I Am Waiting

Instances

Published text-tune combinations (hymns) from specific hymnals

Author: Rev. Elisha A. Hoffman Hymnal: Gospel Echoes #53 (1877) First Line: I am waiting for the summons Refrain First Line: I am waiting, calmly waiting Languages: English Tune Title: [I am waiting for the summons]

I am waiting, calmly waiting

Author: Elisha A. Hoffman; Elisha Albright Hoffman Hymnal: Apostolic Hymns and Songs #106 (1875) First Line: I am waiting for the summons Languages: English

People

Authors, composers, editors, etc.

Frank M. Davis

1839 - 1896 Composer of "[I am waiting for the summons]" in Gospel Echoes Frank Marion Davis USA 1839-1896. Born at Marcellus, NY, he became a teacher and professor of voice, a choirmaster and a good singer. He traveled extensively, living in Marcellus, NY, Vicksburg, MS, Baltimore, MD, Cincinnati, OH, Burr Oak and Findley, MI. He compiled and published several song books: “New Pearls of Song” (1877), “Notes of Praise” (1890), “Crown of gold” (1892), “Always welcome” (1881), “Songs of love and praise #5” (1898), “Notes of praise”, and “Brightest glory”. He never married. John Perry

E. A. Hoffman

1839 - 1929 Person Name: Elisha A. Hoffman Author of "I Am Waiting" 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) ==============