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I Pray Thee—Have Me Excused

Author: E. A. H. Appears in 3 hymnals First Line: I know that the great feast is ready Refrain First Line: We will carry your answer to Jesus Used With Tune: [I know that the great feast is ready]

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[I know that the great feast is ready]

Appears in 1 hymnal Composer and/or Arranger: Rev. Elisha A. Hoffman Incipit: 53234 32217 66617 Used With Text: I Pray Thee—Have Me Excused

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I Pray Thee—Have Me Excused

Author: E. A. H. Hymnal: Corn In Egypt #122 (1900) First Line: I know that the great feast is ready Refrain First Line: We will carry your answer to Jesus Languages: English Tune Title: [I know that the great feast is ready]

I pray thee have me excused

Author: Elisha A. Hoffman; Elisha Albright Hoffman Hymnal: The Heavenly Echoes #d39 (1900) First Line: I know that the great feast is ready Refrain First Line: We will carry your answer

I pray thee have me excused

Author: Elisha A. Hoffman; Elisha Albright Hoffman Hymnal: Banner Hymns (1st ed) #d62 (1904) First Line: I know that the great feast is ready Refrain First Line: We will carry your answer Languages: English

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E. A. Hoffman

1839 - 1929 Person Name: Elisha A. Hoffman Author of "I Pray Thee, Have Me Excused" 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) ==============
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