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We Are Thy Little Lambs

Author: Elisha A. Hoffman Appears in 2 hymnals First Line: We are Thy little lambs, Jesus, dear Savior Refrain First Line: Our hope is all in thee

[We are thy little lambs]

Appears in 1 hymnal Composer and/or Arranger: Elisha A. Hoffman Incipit: 55565 31316 55556 Used With Text: We Are Thy Little Lambs

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We Are Thy Little Lambs

Author: E. A. H. Hymnal: Words of Truth #92 (1892) Refrain First Line: Our hope is all in thee Languages: English Tune Title: [We are thy little lambs]

Author: Elisha A. Hoffman; Elisha Albright Hoffman Hymnal: Beautiful Songs of Zion, a Collection of New and Old Songs #d177 (1900) First Line: We are thy little lambs, Jesus, dear Savior Languages: English

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E. A. Hoffman

1839 - 1929 Person Name: Elisha A. Hoffman Author of "We Are Thy Little Lambs" 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) ==============