How Are You Living?

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How, O, how are you living, my brother?

Author: Elisha A. Hoffman
Tune: [How, O how are you living, my brother]
Published in 5 hymnals

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1 How, O how are you living, my brother,
Are you going the pilgrimage way?
Are you doing the will of your master?
Are you living for Jesus to-day?

Refrain.
Are you living for Jesus to-day, to-day?
Are you living for Jesus to-day?
O tell me, my friend and my brother,
Are you living for Jesus to-day?

2 Earth will offer you pleasures, my brother,
Have you turned from these pleasures away?
Are you striving to work for the Master?
Are you living for Jesus to-day? [Refrain]

3 Sin will surely entice you, my brother,
Quickly turn from temptation away?
O then give all your life to the Master?
And be living for Jesus to-day? [Refrain]

4 You may grow cold and careless, my brother,
And from Christ and his following stray;
Are you watching, and praying, and trusting?
Are you living for Jesus to-day? [Refrain]

Source: The Christian Sunday School Hymnal: a compilation of choice hymns and tunes for Sunday schools #125

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Author: Elisha A. Hoffman

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… Go to person page >

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First Line:	How, O, how are you living, my brother?
Title:	How Are You Living?
Author:	Elisha A. Hoffman
Language:	English
Refrain First Line:	Are you living for Jesus today, today?
Copyright:	Public Domain