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How Can I But Love Him

Author: E. A. H. Appears in 4 hymnals First Line: What a precious, precious Friend is He! Refrain First Line: How can I but love Him? Used With Tune: [What a precious, precious Friend is He!]

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[What a precious, precious Friend is He!]

Appears in 4 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Rev. E. A. Hoffman Incipit: 12332 21151 11332 Used With Text: How Can I But Love Him

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How Can I But Love Him

Author: E. A. H. Hymnal: Hymns New and Old, No. 2 #35 (1890) First Line: What a precious, precious Friend is He! Languages: English Tune Title: [What a precious, precious Friend is He!]
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How Can I But Love Him

Author: E. A. H. Hymnal: Hymns New and Old, Revised #44 (1891) First Line: What a precious, precious Friend is He! Refrain First Line: How can I but love Him? Languages: English Tune Title: [What a precious, precious Friend is He!]
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How can I but Love Him

Author: E. A. H. Hymnal: The Gospel Pilot Hymnal #87 (1899) First Line: What a precious, precious Friend is He! Refrain First Line: How can I but love Him? Languages: English Tune Title: [What a precious, precious Friend is He!]

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E. A. Hoffman

1839 - 1929 Person Name: E. A. H. Author of "How can I but Love Him" in The Gospel Pilot Hymnal 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) ==============
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