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What a Wonderful Savior

Author: E. A. Hoffman Meter: 8.7.8.7 with refrain Appears in 181 hymnals First Line: Christ has for sin atonement made Topics: Adoration; Christ Saviour

[Christ has for sin atonement made]

Appears in 130 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Rev. Elisha A. Hoffman Tune Key: D Major Incipit: 51155 76544 32155 Used With Text: What a Wonderful Saviour!

[Christ has for sin atonement made]

Appears in 1 hymnal Composer and/or Arranger: B. B. McKinney Incipit: 51134 56651 77767 Used With Text: Under the Blood

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Author: E. A. H. Hymnal: Christ in Song #204 (1908) First Line: Christ has for sin atonement made Refrain First Line: What a wonderful Saviour is Jesus, my Jesus! Lyrics: 1 Christ has for sin atonement made, What a wonderful Saviour! We are redeemed! the price is paid! What a wonderful Saviour! Chorus: What a wonderful Saviour is Jesus, my Jesus! What a wonderful Saviour is Jesus, my Lord! 2 I praise Him for the cleansing blood, What a wonderful Saviour! That reconciled my soul to God; What a wonderful Saviour! [Chorus] 3 He cleansed my heart from all its sin, What a wonderful Saviour! And now He reigns and rules therein; What a wonderful Saviour! [Chorus] 4 He walks beside me all the way, What a wonderful Saviour! And keeps me faithful day by day; What a wonderful Saviour! [Chorus] 5 He gives me overcoming pow'r, What a wonderful Saviour! And triumph in each trying hour; What a wonderful Saviour! [Chorus] 6 To Him I've given all my heart, What a wonderful Saviour! The world shall never share a part; What a wonderful Saviour! [Chorus] Topics: Christ Atonement; Christ Atonement; Christ Atonement; Christ Atonement; Christ Atonement; Christ Atonement; Christ Atonement; Christ Atonement; Christ Atonement; Christ Christ Precious Languages: English Tune Title: [Christ has for sin atonement made]

Christ Has for Sin Atonement Made

Author: Elisha A. Hoffman Hymnal: Hymns for the Living Church #86 (1974) Meter: 8.7.8.7 with refrain Refrain First Line: What a wonderful Savior is Jesus, my Jesus! Lyrics: 1 Christ has for sin atonement made, What a wonderful Savior! We are redeemed! the price is paid! What a wonderful Savior! Refrain: What a wonderful Savior is Jesus, my Jesus! What a wonderful Savior is Jesus, my Lord! 2 I praise Him for the cleansing blood, What a wonderful Savior! That reconciled my soul to God; What a wonderful Savior! (Refrain) 3 He cleansed my heart from all its sin, What a wonderful Savior! And now He reigns and rules therein; What a wonderful Savior! (Refrain) 4 He walks beside me in the way, What a wonderful Savior! And keeps me faithful day by day, What a wonderful Savior! (Refrain) Topics: Christ Savior Scripture: John 4:42 Languages: English Tune Title: BENTON HARBOR

Christ Has for Sin Atonement Made

Author: Elisha A. Hoffman Hymnal: The Hymnal of The Evangelical United Brethren Church #174 (1957) Meter: 8.7.8.7 with refrain Refrain First Line: What a wonderful Savior Lyrics: 1 Christ has for sin atonement made, What a wonderful Savior! We are redeemed! the price is paid! What a wonderful Savior! Refrain What a wonderful Savior is Jesus, my Jesus! What a wonderful Savior is Jesus, my Lord! 2 I praise Him for the cleansing blood, What a wonderful Savior! That reconciled my soul to God; What a wonderful Savior! [Refrain] 3 He cleansed my heart from all its sin, What a wonderful Savior! And now He reigns and rules therein; What a wonderful Savior! [Refrain] 4 He gives me overcoming power, What a wonderful Savior! And triumph in each trying hour; What a wonderful Savior! [Refrain] Scripture: Romans 5:8-11 Tune Title: HOFFMAN

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E. A. Hoffman

1839 - 1929 Person Name: Elisha A. Hoffman Author of "What a Wonderful Savior" in The Worshiping Church 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) ==============

B. B. McKinney

1886 - 1952 Person Name: B. B. McK. Arranger of "Under the Blood" in Pilot Hymns Pseudonyms-- Martha Annis (his mother’s maiden name was Martha Annis Heflin) Otto Nellen Gene Routh (his wife’s maiden name was Leila Irene Routh) ----- Son of James Calvin McKinney and Martha Annis Heflin McKinney, B . B. attended Mount Lebanon Academy, Louisiana; Louisiana College, Pineville, Louisiana; the Southwestern Baptist Seminary in Fort Worth, Texas; the Siegel-Myers Correspondence School of Music, Chicago, Illinois (BM.1922); and the Bush Conservatory of Music, Chicago. Oklahoma Baptist University awarded him an honorary MusD degree in 1942. McKinney served as music editor at the Robert H. Coleman company in Dallas, Texas (1918–35). In 1919, after several months in the army, McKinney returned to Fort Worth, where Isham E. Reynolds asked him to join the faculty of the School of Sacred Music at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary. He taught at the seminary until 1932, then pastored in at the Travis Avenue Baptist Church in Fort Worth (1931–35). In 1935, McKinney became music editor for the Baptist Sunday School Board in Nashville, Tennessee. McKinney wrote words and music for about 150 songs, and music for 115 more. --© Cyber Hymnal™ (www.hymntime.com/tch)