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: The Life-BoatFirst Line: Wake, sinner, wake! there's no time now for sleepTune Title: [Wake, sinner, wake! there's no time now for sleep]Author: E. A. HoffmanDate: 1881
Display Title: Come into the life boatFirst Line: Wake sinner, wake, there's no time for sleepAuthor: Elisha A. Hoffman; Elisha Albright HoffmanDate: 1918
Display Title: The Life-BoatFirst Line: Wake sinner, wake! there's no time for sleepTune Title: [Wake sinner, wake! there's no time for sleep]Author: E. A. HoffmanDate: 1889
Display Title: Come into the life boatFirst Line: Wake sinner, wake, there's no time for sleepAuthor: Elisha A. Hoffman; Elisha Albright HoffmanDate: 1892
Display Title: The Life-boatFirst Line: Wake, sinner, wake, there's no time for sleepTune Title: [Wake, sinner, wake, there's no time for sleep]Date: 1890
Display Title: The Life-boatFirst Line: Wake, sinner, wake, there's no time for sleepTune Title: [Wake, sinner, wake, there's no time for sleep]Date: 1891
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