Thou Hast Called Me

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Thou hast called me, blessed Savior

Author: Elisha A. Hoffman
Tune: [Thou hast called me, blessed Savior]
Published in 3 hymnals

Audio files: MIDI

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1 Thou hast called me, blessed Savior,
To become a child of Thine,
And to bring in consecration
Unto Thee this heart of mine.

Refrain:
What I have, and what I am,
All I consecrate to Thee,
Take my heart, the gift I bring,
And bestow Thy grace on me.

2 I am willing to bestow Thee
All my best and purest love;
Make it warm, and pure, and fervent,
Like the love of saints above. [Refrain]

3 I will live for Thee, dear Savior,
Watch and pray against all sin;
And by pure and good example
Strive some souls to Thee to win. [Refrain]

Source: The Great Awakening: a choice collection of new and standard gospel songs #107

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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:	Thou hast called me, blessed Savior
Title:	Thou Hast Called Me
Author:	Elisha A. Hoffman
Language:	English
Refrain First Line:	What I have and what I am
Copyright:	Public Domain