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[Is Your All on the Altar]

Appears in 75 hymnals Incipit: 12333 13455 53113 Used With Text: 你渴望有平安, (Is Your All on the Altar)

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Is Your All on the Altar?

Author: Elisha A. Hoffman, 1839-1929 Appears in 121 hymnals First Line: You have longed for sweet peace, Refrain First Line: Is your all on the altar of sacrifice laid? Topics: Invitation and Response; Warning Used With Tune: [You have longed for sweet peace]
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Un Sacrificio Vivo

Author: W. R. Adell Appears in 3 hymnals First Line: Has buscando la paz y divino solaz Refrain First Line: ¿Te has puesto en el santo altar de tu Dios? Used With Tune: [Has buscando la paz y divino solaz]

Todo en el altar

Author: Elisha A. Hoffman (1839-1929); O. G. de la Torre Appears in 1 hymnal First Line: ¿Anhelaste la paz y crecer en la fe? Refrain First Line: ¿Entregaste tu vida entera a Dios? Topics: El evangelio Invitación; The gospel Invitation Scripture: Proverbs 23:26 Used With Tune: [¿Anhelaste la paz y crecer en la fe?]

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You Have Longed for Sweet Peace (Is Your All on the Altar?)

Author: Elisha A. Hoffman, 1839-1929 Hymnal: African Methodist Episcopal Church Hymnal #333 (2011) Meter: 12.9.12.9 with refrain First Line: You have longed for sweet peace Refrain First Line: Is your all on the altar of sacrifice laid? Lyrics: 1 You have longed for sweet peace, and for faith to increase, And have earnestly, fervently prayed; But you cannot have rest or be perfectly blest Until all on the altar is laid. Refrain: Is your all on the altar of sacrifice laid? Your heart, does the Spirit control? You can only be blest and have peace and sweet rest, As you yield Him your body and soul. 2 Would you walk with the Lord in the light of His Word, And have peace and contentment alway? You must do His sweet will, to be free from all ill, On the altar your all you must lay. [Refrain] 3 O we never can know what the Lord will bestow Of the blessings for which we have prayed, Till our body and soul He doth fully control, And our all on the altar is laid. [Refrain] 4 Who can tell all the love He will send from above, And how happy our hearts will be made, Of the fellowship sweet we shall share at His feet, When our all on the altar is laid! [Refrain] Topics: The Christian Life Prayer and Intercession; Consecration; Prayer; Surrender Scripture: John 14:27 Languages: English Tune Title: HOFFMAN
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Is Your All on the Altar

Author: Elisha A. Hoffman (1839-1929) Hymnal: Lift Every Voice and Sing II #135 (1993) First Line: You have longed for sweet peace Lyrics: 1 You have longed for sweet peace and for faith to increase, And have earnestly, fervently prayed; But you cannot have rest or be perfectly blest Until all on the altar is laid. Refrain: Is your all on the altar of sacrifice laid? Your heart does the Spirit control? You can only be blest and have peace and sweet rest As you yield Him your body and soul. 2 Would you walk with the Lord in the light of His word, And have peace and contentment alway? You must do His sweet will to be free from all ill, On the altar your all you must lay. [Refrain] 3 O we never can know what the Lord will bestow Of the blessings for which we have prayed Till our body and soul He doth fully control, And our all on the altar is laid. [Refrain] 4 Who can tell all the love He will send from above, And how happy our hearts will be made; Of the charity sweet we shall share at His feet When our all on the altar is laid. [Refrain] Topics: Hymns and Songs Baptism and Conversion Languages: English Tune Title: [You have longed for sweet peace]
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Is Your All on the Alter

Author: Elisha A. Hoffman Hymnal: The New Church Hymnal #179 (1976) First Line: You have longed for sweet peace Refrain First Line: Is your all on the altar of sacrifice laid? Lyrics: 1 You have longed for sweet peace, and for faith to increase, And have earnestly, fervently prayed; But you cannot have rest, or be perfectly blest, Until all on the altar is laid. Refrain: Is your all on the altar of sacrifice laid? Your heart, does the Spirit control? You can only be blest and have peace and sweet rest, As you yield him your body and soul. 2 Would you walk with the Lord in the light of His Word, And have peace and contentment alway? You must do His sweet will to be free from all ill, On the altar your all you must lay. [Refrain] 3 O we never can know what the Lord will bestow Of the blessings for which we have prayed, Till our body and soul He doth fully control, And our all on the altar is laid. [Refrain] 4 Who can tell all the love He will send from above, And how happy our hearts will be made, Of the fellowship sweet we shall share at His feet When our all on the altar is laid? [Refrain] Topics: The Christian Life Aspiration and Consecration; Contentment; Service Languages: English Tune Title: [You have longed for sweet peace]

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Nolan Williams

Person Name: Nolan Williams, Jr., b. 1969 Arranger of "YOUR ALL" in African American Heritage Hymnal

E. A. Hoffman

1839 - 1929 Person Name: Elisha A. Hoffman, 1839-1929 Author of "Is Your All on the Altar?" in Hymnal of the Church of God 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) ==============

W. Roberto Adell

Person Name: W. R. Adell Author of "Un Sacrificio Vivo" in Lluvias de Bendicion
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