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[Jesus said of little children]

Appears in 2 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Rev. Elisha A. Hoffman Incipit: 55556 55354 32653 Used With Text: Jesus and the Children

Jesus and the Children

Appears in 2 hymnals First Line: Jesus said of little children Used With Tune: [Jesus said of little children]

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Hymnal: Celestial Showers No. 1, a collection of gospel songs used in Rev. I. Toliver's Meetings #7 (1895) First Line: Jesus said of little children Languages: English Tune Title: [Jesus said of little children]

Jesus and the Children

Hymnal: Missionary Hymns and Responsive Scripture Readings #87 (1907) First Line: Jesus said of little children Languages: English Tune Title: [Jesus said of little children]

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E. A. Hoffman

1839 - 1929 Person Name: Rev. Elisha A. Hoffman Composer of "[Jesus said of little children]" in Celestial Showers No. 1, a collection of gospel songs used in Rev. I. Toliver's Meetings 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) ==============