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Author: E. A. H. Appears in 21 hymnals First Line: I have precious news to tell Refrain First Line: Hallelujah, I'm redeemed Topics: Cleansing; Confession; Experience Used With Tune: [I have precious news to tell]

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[I have precious news to tell, hallelujah!]

Appears in 20 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Rev. Elisha A. Hoffman Incipit: 55132 12165 15513 Used With Text: Wondrously Redeemed

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I Have Precious News to Tell

Author: E. A. H. Hymnal: Milk and Honey #69 (1911) First Line: I have precious news to tell, hallelujah! Refrain First Line: Hallelujah! I'm redeemed! Languages: English Tune Title: [I have precious news to tell, hallelujah!]

I Have Precious News to Tell

Author: E. A. H. Hymnal: Pentecostal Hymns No. 2 #123 (1898) First Line: I have precious news to tell, hallelujah! Refrain First Line: Hallelujah! I'm redeem'd! Languages: English Tune Title: [I have precious news to tell, hallelujah!]

I Have Precious News to Tell

Author: E. A. H. Hymnal: Light and Life Songs #127 (1904) First Line: I have precious news to tell, hallelujah Refrain First Line: Hallelujah! I'm redeemed Languages: English Tune Title: [I have precious news to tell, hallelujah]

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L. L. Pickett

1859 - 1928 Person Name: L. L. P. Author (4th verse) of "Wondrously Redeemed" in Tears and Triumphs No. 3 Rv Leander Lycurgus Pickett USA 1859-1928. Born at Burnsville, MS, he became a Methodist evangelist. He held meetings in several states and at Holiness campgrounds. After marrying Ludie, they served pastorates in northeast TX, and Columbia, SC, before moving to Wilmore, KY. Pickett married Pruvy Melviney Dorough in 1878, and they had a son, James, in 1880. After her death in 1887, he married Ludie in 1888. He was a renowned speaker, leader, minister, author, hymnwriter, and patriot, prominent in the Holiness Movement, and helped found Asbury College (now University), at Wilmore, KY, where he also served as the financial agent of the board of trustees for many years. The Picketts boarded m,inistry students attending Asbury, among whom was missionary E Stanley Jones. In 1905 a student prayer meeting at the Pickett home spilled out to the Asbury campus in a revival that spread around the town of Wilmore. Between 1891 and 1926 Pickett published 11 song books, some with others, including John Sweney, William J Kirkpatrick, John Bryant, Martin Knapp, Elisha A Hoffman, Burke Culpepper, William Marks, Benjamin Butts, and Robert McNeill. He died at Middlesboro, KY. John Perry

E. A. Hoffman

1839 - 1929 Person Name: E. A. H. Author of "Wondrously Redeemed" in Best Hymns 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) ==============