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What Are You Going to Do?

Author: Elisha A. Hoffman Appears in 9 hymnals First Line: Jesus is calling and bids you return Refrain First Line: Jesus is waiting, waiting, waiting

[Jesus is calling and bids you return]

Appears in 5 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: E. B. Smith Incipit: 11132 16165 51355 Used With Text: What Are You Going to Do?

[Jesus is calling and bids you return]

Appears in 3 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Chas. Edw. Pollock Incipit: 33211 23345 55651 Used With Text: What Are You Going to Do?

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Author: Rev. E. A. Hoffman Hymnal: Grace and Glory #124 (1882) First Line: Jesus is calling and bids you return Refrain First Line: Jesus is waiting, waiting, waiting Languages: English Tune Title: [Jesus is calling and bids you return]

What Are You Going to Do?

Author: Rev. E. A. Hoffman Hymnal: New Harvest Bells #166 (1900) First Line: Jesus is calling and bids you return Refrain First Line: Jesus is waiting, waiting, waiting Languages: English Tune Title: [Jesus is calling and bids you return]

What Are You Going to Do?

Author: Rev. E. Hoffman Hymnal: Harvest Bells Nos. 1, 2 and 3 #265 (1892) First Line: Jesus is calling and bids you return Refrain First Line: Jesus is waiting, waiting, waiting Languages: English Tune Title: [Jesus is calling and bids you return]

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Charles Edward Pollock

1853 - 1928 Person Name: Chas. Edw. Pollock Composer of "[Jesus is calling and bids you return]" in New Harvest Bells Charles Edward Pollock USA 1853-1928. Born at Newcastle, PA, he moved to Jefferson City, MO, when age 17. He was a cane maker for C W Allen. He also worked 20 years for the MO Pacific Railroad, as a depot clerk and later as Assistant Roadmaster. He was a musician and prolific songwriter, composing 5000+ songs, mostly used in Sunday school settings and church settings. He took little remuneration for his compositions, preferring they be freely used. He produced three songbooks: “Praises”, “Beauty of praise”, and “Waves of melody”. In 1886 he married Martha (Mattie) Jane Harris, and they had three children: Robert, Edward, and a daughter. He died in Merriam, KS. John Perry ================= Pollock, Charles Edward. (Jefferson City, Missouri, 1853-1924). Records of Jefferson City indicate the following: 1897 clerk at depot; residence at 106 Broadway (with Mildred Pollock) 1904-1905 cane maker for C. W. Allen 1908-1909 musician; residence at 106 Broadway (with wife Matty) 1912-1913 residence at St. Louis Road, east city limits --Wilmer Swope, DNAH Archives Note: not to be confused with Charles Edward Pollock (c.1871-1924).

E. A. Hoffman

1839 - 1929 Person Name: Rev. E. Hoffman Author of "Jesus is waiting, waiting, waiting" in Band Music 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) ==============