Thanks for being a Hymnary.org user. You are one of more than 10 million people from 200-plus countries around the world who have benefitted from the Hymnary website in 2024! If you feel moved to support our work today with a gift of any amount and a word of encouragement, we would be grateful.

You can donate online at our secure giving site.

Or, if you'd like to make a gift by check, please make it out to CCEL and mail it to:
Christian Classics Ethereal Library, 3201 Burton Street SE, Grand Rapids, MI 49546
And may the promise of Advent be yours this day and always.

Search Results

Text Identifier:"^the_half_he_has_never_revealed$"

Planning worship? Check out our sister site, ZeteoSearch.org, for 20+ additional resources related to your search.

Texts

text icon
Text authorities
Page scans

The Half He Has Never Revealed

Author: Elisha A. Hoffman Appears in 4 hymnals Refrain First Line: And this is his promise so sweet Used With Tune: [The half he has never revealed]

Tunes

tune icon
Tune authorities
Page scans

[The half he has never revealed]

Appears in 2 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: R. M. McIntosh Incipit: 51123 16551 12321 Used With Text: The Half He Has Never Revealed

Instances

instance icon
Published text-tune combinations (hymns) from specific hymnals
Page scan

The Half He Has Never Revealed

Author: Elisha A. Hoffman Hymnal: Words of Truth #63 (1892) Refrain First Line: And this is his promise so sweet Languages: English Tune Title: [The half he has never revealed]

And this is his promise

Author: Elisha A. Hoffman; Elisha Albright Hoffman Hymnal: Living Songs for the Sunday School, the Epworth League, Prayer Meetings, Revivals ... #d143 (1897) First Line: The half he has never revealed Languages: English

And this is his promise

Author: Elisha A. Hoffman; Elisha Albright Hoffman Hymnal: Living Songs for the Sunday School, the Epworth League, Prayer Meetings, Revivals #d144 (1892) First Line: The half he has never revealed Languages: English

People

person icon
Authors, composers, editors, etc.

E. A. Hoffman

1839 - 1929 Person Name: Elisha A. Hoffman Author of "The Half He Has Never Revealed" in Words of Truth 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) ==============

R. M. McIntosh

1836 - 1889 Composer of "[The half he has never revealed]" in Words of Truth Used Pseudonym: Robert M. McIntosh ========== Rigdon (Robert) McCoy McIntosh USA 1836-1899 Born at Maury County, TN, into a farming family, he attended Jackson College in Columbia, TN, graduating in 1854. He studied music under Asa Everett in Richmond, VA, and became a traveling singing school teacher. He also served briefly in the Civil War. He wrote several hymns during this period of his life. In 1860 he married Sarah McGlasson, and they had a daughter, Loulie Everett. In 1875 he was appointed head of the Vanderbilt University Music Department in Nashville, TN. In 1877 he joined the faculty of Emory College, Oxford, GA. In 1895 he left Emory College to devote his time to the R M McIntosh Publishing Company. He also served as music editor of the Methodist Episcopal Church South Publishing House for over 30 years. His song book publications include: “Good news” (1876), “Light & life” (1881), “Prayer & praise” (1883), “New life” (1879), “New life #2” (1886), and “Songs of service” (1896). He died in Atlanta, GA. John Perry
It looks like you are using an ad-blocker. Ad revenue helps keep us running. Please consider white-listing Hymnary.org or getting Hymnary Pro to eliminate ads entirely and help support Hymnary.org.