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[Why came the Saviour from above]

Appears in 4 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Gabriel Miesse Incipit: 34532 15656 71123 Used With Text: Because He Loves Me So

Author: Rev. E. A. Hoffman Appears in 4 hymnals First Line: Why came the Saviour from above Refrain First Line: He loves me, he loves me Used With Tune: [Why came the Saviour from above]

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Because He Loves Me So

Author: Elisha A. Hoffman Hymnal: Gospel Echoes #16 (1877) First Line: Why came the Savior from above Refrain First Line: He loves me, he loves me Languages: English Tune Title: [Why came the Savior from above]

Because He Loves Me So

Author: Rev. E. A. Hoffman Hymnal: Junior Songs #113 (1892) First Line: Why came the Saviour from above Refrain First Line: He loves me, he loves me Lyrics: 1 Why came the Saviour from above, To dwell on earth below? Why suffered he on Calvary? Because he loves me so. Chorus: He loves me, he loves me, He loves me, this I know. He gave himself to die for me, Because he loves me so. 2 Why bowed he in Gethsemane Beneath a weight of woe, Till bloody sweat bedew'd the ground? Because he loves me so. [Chorus] 3 Why does he wash my sin-stained heart And make it white as snow? Why does he make his home therein? Because he loves me so. [Chorus] 4 Why will he take me up to heav'n From cares and toils below? Why give a crown of glory there? Because he loves me so. [Chorus] Languages: English Tune Title: [Why came the Saviour from above]

Because He Loves Me So

Author: Rev. E. A. Hoffman Hymnal: Spicy Breezes #27 (1883) First Line: Why came the Saviour from above Refrain First Line: He loves me, he loves me Languages: English Tune Title: [Why came the Saviour from above]

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E. A. Hoffman

1839 - 1929 Person Name: Rev. E. A. Hoffman Author of "Because He Loves Me So" in Junior Songs 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) ==============

Gabriel Miesse

1838 - 1911 Composer of "[Why came the Savior from above]" in Gospel Echoes Gabriel Ralph Miesse was born Jan. 5th, 1838 in Dumontville, Fairfield County, Ohio, descended from a German-American family from Berks County, Pennsylvania. His father, Gabriel Lafayette Miesse, was a doctor who was also known as an artist, engraver, and inventor. The younger Gabriel followed his father into the medical field, first serving as his assistant and eventually earning a medical diploma from the Cincinnati Eclectic Institute in 1856. He established a practice in Lancaster, Ohio, in 1864, and lived there the remainder of his life. A polymath like his father, Miesse was an artist and occasional architect, and carried on a lifelong avocation in music. He began teaching music classes in his early teens, and published about two dozen compositions, chiefly for piano. His most ambitious work was a comic opera in German-American dialect, Schermania in America, with a libretto by his cousin Charles Miesse, copyrighted in 1892. Miesse contributed several tunes to The Evergreen (Cleveland, 1873), an early Sunday School collection edited by Elisha Hoffman for the Evangelical Association churches. His second cousin, Cornelius T. Dondore, similarly provided a number of musical settings. When the Evangelical Association established a congregation in Lancaster, Ohio, Miesse allowed them the use of a lot for a revival meeting at which he himself was eventually converted. He passed away in Columbus, September 11th, 1911. Sources: Abbott, Carol A. A 21st Century Investigation of the Historical, Musical and Acoustical Contexts of a 19th Century Comic Opera, Schermania in America, Composed by Dr. Gabriel Miesse, Jr. Ph.D. dissertation, Ohio University, 2011. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1303937248 Graham, A. A. A History of Fairfield and Perry Counties, Ohio: Their Past and Present. Chicago: W. H. Beers, 1883. https://archive.org/details/historyoffairfie00grah/ FamilySearch, "The Family Tree," database, FamilySearch (www.familysearch.org : accessed 21 March 2025), Gabriel Ralph Miesse (LS68-SMH), Details. --David Russell Hamrick