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[Linger no longer, Jesus is waiting]

Appears in 2 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: E. A. Hoffman Incipit: 55435 32176 55432

Author: E. A. H. Appears in 6 hymnals First Line: Linger no longer, Jesus is waiting Refrain First Line: Linger no longer, come, come to Jesus Used With Tune: [Linger no longer, Jesus is waiting]

Zaudre nicht

Author: W. H. v. S. Appears in 1 hymnal First Line: Zaudre nicht länger, nütze die Stunden Refrain First Line: Schmerzen nur kann die Sünde dir bieten Used With Tune: [Zaudre nicht länger, nütze die Stunden]

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Linger No Longer

Author: E. A. H. Hymnal: Pentecostal Hymns No. 1 #115 (1894) First Line: Linger no longer, Jesus is waiting Refrain First Line: Linger no longer, come, come to Jesus Languages: English Tune Title: [Linger no longer, Jesus is waiting]

Zaudre nicht

Author: W. H. v. S. Hymnal: Silberklänge #122 (1899) First Line: Zaudre nicht länger, nütze die Stunden Refrain First Line: Schmerzen nur kann die Sünde dir bieten Languages: German Tune Title: [Zaudre nicht länger, nütze die Stunden]

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E. A. Hoffman

1839 - 1929 Person Name: E. A. H. Author of "Linger No Longer" in Pentecostal Hymns No. 1 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) ==============