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.
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Display Title: White as snow, can it be soFirst Line: There's a wonderful fountain of cleansingAuthor: Elisha A. Hoffman; Elisha Albright HoffmanDate: 1884
Display Title: Wonderful Fountain of CleansingFirst Line: There's a wonderful fountain of cleansingTune Title: [There's a wonderful fountain of cleansing]Author: E. A. HoffmanDate: 1881
Display Title: White as snow, can it be soFirst Line: There's a wonderful fountain of cleansingAuthor: Elisha A. Hoffman; Elisha Albright HoffmanDate: 1890
Display Title: White as snow, can it be soFirst Line: There's a wonderful fountain of cleansingAuthor: Elisha A. Hoffman; Elisha Albright HoffmanDate: 1885
Display Title: Wonderful FountainFirst Line: There's a wonderful fountain of cleansingTune Title: [There's a wonderful fountain of cleansing]Author: E. A. H.Date: 1886
Display Title: Wonderful Fountain of CleansingFirst Line: There's a wonderful fountain of cleansingTune Title: [There's a wonderful fountain of cleansing]Author: E. A. Hoffman; Elisha Albright HoffmanDate: 1889
Display Title: White as snow, can it be soFirst Line: There's a wonderful fountain of cleansingAuthor: Elisha A. Hoffman; Elisha Albright HoffmanDate: 1882
Display Title: Wonderful FountainFirst Line: There's a wonderful fountain of cleansingTune Title: [There's a wonderful fountain of cleansing]Author: E. A. H.Date: 1885
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