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As I Am I Come

Author: Elisha A. Hoffman Appears in 3 hymnals First Line: As I am I come to Thee, Come with but one worthy plea Refrain First Line: As I am I come, trusting Thee I come

[As I am I come to Thee]

Appears in 1 hymnal Composer and/or Arranger: B. K. Knight Incipit: 55151 23135 31323 Used With Text: As I Am I Come

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As I Am I Come

Author: Rev. E. A. Hoffman Hymnal: Singing for Joy #198 (1902) First Line: As I am I come to Thee Languages: English Tune Title: [As I am I come to Thee]

As I am I come, trusting

Author: Elisha A. Hoffman; Elisha Albright Hoffman Hymnal: Favorite Songs #d7 (1907) First Line: As I am I come to thee Languages: English

As I am I come, trusting

Author: Elisha A. Hoffman; Elisha Albright Hoffman Hymnal: The New Revival Glory #d21 (1912) First Line: As I am I come to thee

1839 - 1929 Person Name: Elisha A. Hoffman Author of "As I Am I Come" 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) ==============