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Zum Erlöser will ich kommen

Appears in 2 hymnals Refrain First Line: Ja, ich komme Used With Tune: [Zum Erlöser will ich kommen]

[Zum Erlöser will ich kommen]

Appears in 6 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Asa Hull Incipit: 12333 45355 43231 Used With Text: Zum Erlöser will ich kommen

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Zum Erlöser will ich kommen

Hymnal: Pilger Lieder #29 (1894) Refrain First Line: Ja, ich komme Languages: German Tune Title: [Zum Erlöser will ich kommen]

Ja, ich komme, ja, ich komme

Hymnal: Gemeinschafts-Lieder. 7th ed. #315 (1917) First Line: Zum Erlöser will ich kommen in der Gnadenzeit Languages: German

1839 - 1929 Person Name: Elisha A. Hoffman Author of "Ja, ich komme, ja, ich komme" 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) ==============

Asa Hull

1828 - 1907 Composer of "[Zum Erlöser will ich kommen]" in Pilger Lieder Asa Hull USA 1828-1907. Born in Keene, NY, he became a music publisher in New York City. He married Emma F Atherton, and they had a daughter, Harriett. He wrote many tunes and authored temperance rallying songs. He published 33 works, of which 21 were songbooks, between 1863-1895. He died in Philadelphia, PA. John Perry