Baptist Hymnal 1991 #136
Tune Title: WASHED IN THE BLOOD First Line: Have you been to Jesus for the cleansing pow'r? Composer: Elisha A. Hoffman Meter: 11.9.11.9.with Refrain Key: A♭ Major Date: 1991
Baptist Hymnal 1991 #136

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 >| Title: | [Have you been to Jesus for the cleansing power] |
| Composer: | E. A. Hoffman (1878) |
| Meter: | 11.9.11.9 with refrain |
| Incipit: | 35111 53511 11233 |
| Key: | A♭ Major |
| Copyright: | Public Domain |
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