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No one can help you but Jesus

Author: Elisha A. Hoffman; Elisha Albright Hoffman Appears in 2 hymnals

[No one can help you but Jesus]

Appears in 1 hymnal Composer and/or Arranger: W. E. Erwin Tune Key: D Major Incipit: 54565 55177 57765 Used With Text: No One Can Help You But Jesus

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Author: Elisha Albright Hoffman Hymnal: The Cyber Hymnal #8986 Lyrics: 1 No one can help you but Jesus, He is your very best friend; Ever have faith in His goodness, And on His promise depend. Refrain: No one can help you but Jesus, Jesus alone, Jesus alone; Tell Him your need, for He loveth Ever to comfort His own. 2 No one can help you but Jesus, No one but Jesus alone; Tell Him your need, He will gladly Succor and comfort His own. [Refrain] 3 No one can help you but Jesus, When you are burdened with grief, Bring Him your trouble and sorrow, And He will give you relief. [Refrain] Languages: English Tune Title: [No one can help you but Jesus]

No one can help you but Jesus

Author: Elisha A. Hoffman; Elisha Albright Hoffman Hymnal: Song-Land Messenger No.2 #d133 (1898)

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E. A. Hoffman

1839 - 1929 Author of "No One Can Help You But Jesus" 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) ==============