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[The love of Jesus, O how sweet]

Appears in 3 hymnals Matching Instances: 3 Composer and/or Arranger: Rev. Elisha A. Hoffman Incipit: 51111 65551 23511 Used With Text: He Loves Me

Author: E. A. H. Appears in 6 hymnals Matching Instances: 1 First Line: The love of Jesus, oh, how sweet Refrain First Line: Yes, the Saviour loves me Used With Tune: [The love of Jesus, oh, how sweet]

He Loves Me

Author: E. A. H. Appears in 1 hymnal Matching Instances: 1 First Line: The love of Jesus is so sweet Refrain First Line: Jesus truly loves me, tenderly He loves me Used With Tune: [The love of Jesus is so sweet]

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He Loves Me

Author: E. A. H. Hymnal: Favorite Gospel Songs #85 (1894) First Line: The love of Jesus, oh, how sweet Refrain First Line: Yes, the Saviour loves me Languages: English Tune Title: [The love of Jesus, oh, how sweet]

He Loves Me

Author: E. A. H. Hymnal: Pentecostal Hymns No. 2 #64 (1898) First Line: The love of Jesus is so sweet Refrain First Line: Jesus truly loves me, tenderly He loves me Languages: English Tune Title: [The love of Jesus is so sweet]

He Loves Me

Author: E. A. H. Hymnal: Celestial Showers No. 1, a collection of gospel songs used in Rev. I. Toliver's Meetings #32 (1895) First Line: The love of Jesus, O how sweet Refrain First Line: Yes, the Savior loves me Languages: English Tune Title: [The love of Jesus, O how sweet]

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E. A. Hoffman

1839 - 1929 Person Name: E. A. H. Author of "He Loves Me" in Celestial Showers No. 1, a collection of gospel songs used in Rev. I. Toliver's Meetings 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) ==============