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[Be strong to toil in the vineyard wide]

[Be strong to toil in the vineyard wide]

Composer: Rev. Elisha A. Hoffman
Published in 5 hymnals


Audio files: MIDI

Composer: Rev. 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 >

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Tune Information

Title: [Be strong to toil in the vineyard wide]
Composer: Rev. Elisha A. Hoffman
Incipit: 53451 21777 71223
Copyright: Public Domain
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Timeline

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Instances in all hymnals

Instances (1 - 5 of 5)
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Conquest Hymns #187

Conquest Hymns #187
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Gospel Songs for Men #19

Gospel Songs for Men #19
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Hymns and Spiritual Songs #137

Hymns and Spiritual Songs #137
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Pentecostal Hymns No. 1 #109

Pentecostal Hymns No. 1 #109
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Songs of Matchless Love #39

Songs of Matchless Love #39
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