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Author: Rev. Elisha A. Hoffman Appears in 3 hymnals First Line: Speed away! speed away! on your mission of light Lyrics: 1 Speed away! speed away! on your mission of light To the lands in the darkness of error and night! Bear a message of hope to the people afar, Tell of Him who has come as the Bright “Morning Star;” O ye angels of light! To the land steeped in night, Speed away! speed away! speed away! 2 Speed away! speed away! for the night cometh on; Reach the nations afar ere the set of the sun; They are perishing now, untold number each day; They are passing from hope to death’s valley away; O ye angels of light! To the land steeped in night, Speed away! speed away! speed away! 3 Speed away! speed away! in the name of the Lord! Bear the news of salvation revealed in God’s word; For the heart of the Savior is wounded with grief, Since so slowly we render our help and relief; O ye angels of light! To the land steeped in night, Speed away! speed away! speed away! Topics: Missions; Work Used With Tune: [Speed away! speed away! on your mission of light]

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[Speed away! speed away! on your mission of light]

Appears in 116 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: I. B. Woodbury Incipit: 55555 55554 53333 Used With Text: Speed Away

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Speed Away

Author: Rev. Elisha A. Hoffman Hymnal: Best Hymns No. 4 #145 (1907) First Line: Speed away! speed away! on your mission of light Lyrics: 1 Speed away! speed away! on your mission of light To the lands in the darkness of error and night! Bear a message of hope to the people afar, Tell of Him who has come as the Bright “Morning Star;” O ye angels of light! To the land steeped in night, Speed away! speed away! speed away! 2 Speed away! speed away! for the night cometh on; Reach the nations afar ere the set of the sun; They are perishing now, untold number each day; They are passing from hope to death’s valley away; O ye angels of light! To the land steeped in night, Speed away! speed away! speed away! 3 Speed away! speed away! in the name of the Lord! Bear the news of salvation revealed in God’s word; For the heart of the Savior is wounded with grief, Since so slowly we render our help and relief; O ye angels of light! To the land steeped in night, Speed away! speed away! speed away! Topics: Missions; Work Languages: English Tune Title: [Speed away! speed away! on your mission of light]

Speed Away

Author: Rev. Elisha A. Hoffman Hymnal: Songs for Service #10 (1905) First Line: Speed away! speed away! on your mission of light Languages: English Tune Title: [Speed away! speed away! on your mission of light]

Speed away, speed away on your mission of light

Author: Rev. Elisha A. Hoffman Hymnal: Best Hymns No. 2 #d124 (1899) Languages: English

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E. A. Hoffman

1839 - 1929 Person Name: Rev. Elisha A. Hoffman Author of "Speed Away" in Best Hymns No. 4 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) ==============

I. B. Woodbury

1819 - 1858 Composer of "[Speed away! speed away! on your mission of light]" in Best Hymns No. 4 Woodbury, Isaac Baker. (Beverly, Massachusetts, October 23, 1819--October 26, 1858, Columbia, South Carolina). Music editor. As a boy, he studied music in nearby Boston, then spent his nineteenth year in further study in London and Paris. He taught for six years in Boston, traveling throughout New England with the Bay State Glee Club. He later lived at Bellow Falls, Vermont, where he organized the New Hampshire and Vermont Musical Association. In 1849 he settled in New York City where he directed the music at the Rutgers Street Church until ill-health caused him to resign in 1851. He became editor of the New York Musical Review and made another trip to Europe in 1852 to collect material for the magazine. in the fall of 1858 his health broke down from overwork and he went south hoping to regain his strength, but died three days after reaching Columbia, South Carolina. He published a number of tune-books, of which the Dulcimer, of New York Collection of Sacred Music, went through a number of editions. His Elements of Musical Composition, 1844, was later issued as the Self-instructor in Musical Composition. He also assisted in the compilation of the Methodist Hymn Book of 1857. --Leonard Ellinwood, DNAH Archives