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[You have longed for sweet peace, and for faith to increase]

[You have longed for sweet peace, and for faith to increase]

Composer: E. A. Hoffman (1900)
Published in 75 hymnals


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Composer: E. 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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Title: [You have longed for sweet peace, and for faith to increase]
Composer: E. A. Hoffman (1900)
Meter: 12.9.12.9.12.8.12.9
Incipit: 12333 13455 53113
Key: F Major
Copyright: Public Domain

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Arrangements

Organ Solo

  • Herman Voss Presents Organ Favorites Volume One
    Composer/Editor Hermann Voss
    Published By: Singspiration Music, Inc. (1970) pp. 14

Piano Solo

  • The Church Pianist Volume 31 Number 3 January February 2015: The Pianist's Companion for the Church Year
    Composer/Editors Larry Shackley; Lois Riley Summers
    Published By: Lorenz Publishing Company (2015) pp. 18
  • Grand Hymns of the Faith: 10 Expressive Arrangements of Favorite Hymns
    Composer/Editor Kenon D. Renfrow
    Published By: Alfred Music Publishing Company, Inc. (2003) pp. 14
  • PedalPoint Volume 16 Number 4 June July August 1997: Church Music and Study Helps for Pianists and Organists
    Composer/Editors Sharron Lyon; Gayden C. Sikes
    Published By: The Sunday School Board of the Southern Baptist Convention (1997) pp. 36
  • The Church Pianist Volume 7 Number 5 May 1991: The Pianist's Companion for the Church Year
    Composer/Editors Hugh S. Livingston, Jr.; Ron Loree
    Published By: Lorenz Publishing Company (1991) pp. 20

Piano Duet+: Piano Duet One Piano

  • Like a River Glorious: Sacred Piano Duets
    Composer/Editor Rebecca Bonam
    Published By: SoundForth (2000) pp. 60

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Soul-stirring Songs and Hymns (Rev. ed.) #293

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