[Rescue them, rescue the souls that are perishing]

[Rescue them, rescue the souls that are perishing]

Composer: Elisha A. Hoffman
Published in 5 hymnals


Audio files: MIDI

Composer: 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 >

Tune Information

Title: [Rescue them, rescue the souls that are perishing]
Composer: Elisha A. Hoffman
Incipit: 32154 32123 21222
Copyright: Public Domain

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Celestial Songs #203

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Service in Song #52

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Triumphant Songs No.3 #22

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Triumphant Songs Nos. 3 and 4 Combined #22

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Voices of Praise #28

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