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[Jesus is a merciful Savior]

Appears in 3 hymnals Matching Instances: 3 Composer and/or Arranger: Rev. Elisha A. Hoffman Incipit: 34556 16535 44655 Used With Text: Love Him, Children

Author: E. A. H. Appears in 2 hymnals Matching Instances: 1 First Line: Jesus is a merciful Savior Refrain First Line: Love him, love him, children dear Used With Tune: [Jesus is a merciful Savior]

Der freundliche Heiland

Author: Aug. Berens, P. Appears in 2 hymnals Matching Instances: 1 First Line: Jesus ist ein freundlicher Heiland Refrain First Line: Kindlein, liebt von Herzens grund Used With Tune: [Jesus ist ein freundlicher Heiland]

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Der freundliche Heiland

Author: Aug. Berens, P. Hymnal: Perlen und Blüthen #191 (1890) First Line: Jesus ist ein freundlicher Heiland Refrain First Line: Kindlein, liebt von Herzens grund Languages: German Tune Title: [Jesus ist ein freundlicher Heiland]

Love Him, Children

Author: E. A. H. Hymnal: The New Song #163 (1891) First Line: Jesus is a merciful Savior Refrain First Line: Love him, love him, children dear Languages: English Tune Title: [Jesus is a merciful Savior]

Love Him, Children

Author: E. A. H. Hymnal: Glad Songs #34 (1922) First Line: Jesus is a merciful Savior Refrain First Line: Love Him, love Him, children dear Languages: English Tune Title: [Jesus is a merciful Savior]

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E. A. Hoffman

1839 - 1929 Person Name: E. A. H. Author of "Love Him, Children" in Glad Songs 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 ============ Hoffman, Elisha Albright, author of "Have you been to Jesus for the cleansing power?" (Holiness desired), in I. D. Sankey's Sacred Songs and Solos, 1881, was born in Pennsylvania, May 7, 1839. --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, Appendix, Part II (1907) ==============

August Johann Berens

1843 - 1908 Person Name: Aug. Berens, P. Author of "Der freundliche Heiland" in Perlen und Blüthen Berens, August. (Hamburg, Germany, October 30, 1843--January 12, 1908, Niles Center, Illinois). He attended the Missionhaus at Barmen, Germany, ca. 1859-1862, and then did post-graduate study at Tübingen, ca. 1862-1863. Coming to the United States, he was a missionary pastor for the Evangelical Synod of North America on the western frontier, especially in Wisconsin and Minnesota. He was pastor in Washington, Missouri, 1878-1887, and of St. Peter's Church, Elmhurst, Illinois, 1887-1906. He was the author of Frülingsboten: Gedichte (St. Charles, Illinois, 1889) and Frisch und fromm: Ein Kinderbüchlein mit Gedichten, Liedern, und Sprüchen (St. Louis, n.d.). He became a U.S. citizen in June, 1892. Berens married a school teacher, Clara Rieger, in 1878, and had three children. She was the author of Frau Nicholas Magd: eine Erzählung (St. Louis, 1894), and Aus vergangen Tagen (St. Louis, 1906). --Paul Westermeyer, DNAH Archives