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[Hark! there’s a call for the brave and true]

Appears in 8 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: M. L. McPhail Incipit: 53517 65436 6 Used With Text: Hark! There’s a Call to the Brave

Hark! There’s a Call to the Brave

Author: Rev. E. A. Hoffman Appears in 8 hymnals First Line: Hark! there’s a call for the brave and true Refrain First Line: Hear the call, hear the call Lyrics: 1 Hark! there’s a call for the brave and true! Brother, enlist, for the Lord wants you! Facing the foe with your sword in hand, Bravely go froth at your Lord’s command. Refrain: Hear the call, hear the call, Pleading for help from one and all; Hear the call, hear the call, Pleading for help from one and all. 2 Come to the front, brother, take a stand; Fall into line at your Lord’s command; Follow his lead in the earnest fight, Conquer for God, and for truth and right. [Refrain] 3 Who’ll volunteer in the ranks today, Ready to plunge in the thickest fray? Jesus now waits for the brave and true; Brother, enlist! for the Lord wants you. [Refrain] Used With Tune: [Hark! there’s a call for the brave and true]

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Hark! There’s a Call to the Brave

Author: Rev. E. A. Hoffman Hymnal: Triumphant Songs No.2 #34 (1889) First Line: Hark! there’s a call for the brave and true Refrain First Line: Hear the call, hear the call Lyrics: 1 Hark! there’s a call for the brave and true! Brother, enlist, for the Lord wants you! Facing the foe with your sword in hand, Bravely go froth at your Lord’s command. Refrain: Hear the call, hear the call, Pleading for help from one and all; Hear the call, hear the call, Pleading for help from one and all. 2 Come to the front, brother, take a stand; Fall into line at your Lord’s command; Follow his lead in the earnest fight, Conquer for God, and for truth and right. [Refrain] 3 Who’ll volunteer in the ranks today, Ready to plunge in the thickest fray? Jesus now waits for the brave and true; Brother, enlist! for the Lord wants you. [Refrain] Tune Title: [Hark! there’s a call for the brave and true]

Hark! There's a Call to the Brave

Author: Rev. E. A. Hoffman Hymnal: The Anti-Saloon League Song Book #8 (1915) First Line: Hark! there's a call for the brave and true! Refrain First Line: Hear the call, hear the call Languages: English Tune Title: [Hark! there's a call for the brave and true!]

Hark! There's a Call

Author: Rev. E. A. Hoffman Hymnal: Excellent Songs #34 (1898) First Line: Hark! there's a call for the brave and true! Refrain First Line: Hear the call Languages: English Tune Title: [Hark! there's a call for the brave and true!]

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E. A. Hoffman

1839 - 1929 Person Name: Rev. E. A. Hoffman Author of "Hark! There’s a Call to the Brave" in Triumphant Songs No.2 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) ==============