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[I have a Friend, a precious Friend]

Appears in 2 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Rev. Elisha A. Hoffman Incipit: 35553 55542 34653 Used With Text: He Loves Me Tenderly
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He Loves Me Tenderly

Author: E. A. H. Appears in 4 hymnals First Line: I have a Friend, a precious Friend Refrain First Line: He loves me, fondly Used With Tune: [I have a Friend, a precious Friend]
He Loves Me Tenderly

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He Loves Me Tenderly

Author: E. A. H. Hymnal: Song-Land Messenger Complete #144 (1894) First Line: I have a Friend, a precious Friend Refrain First Line: He loves me, fondly Languages: English Tune Title: [I have a Friend, a precious Friend]
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He Loves Me Tenderly

Author: E. A. H. Hymnal: Song-Land Messenger Complete #144 (1892) First Line: I have a Friend, a precious Friend Refrain First Line: He loves me, fondly, truly, dearly Languages: English Tune Title: [I have a Friend, a precious Friend]
He Loves Me Tenderly

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E. A. Hoffman

1839 - 1929 Person Name: E. A. H. Author of "He Loves Me Tenderly" in Song-Land Messenger Complete 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) ==============
E. A. Hoffman
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