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'Tis the dear Lord calling

Author: Elisha A. Hoffman; Elisha Albright Hoffman Appears in 2 hymnals First Line: Hark, what sound salutes your ear Whose the gentle voice you hear

[Hark! what sound salutes your ear?]

Appears in 1 hymnal Composer and/or Arranger: Rev. Elisha A. Hoffman Incipit: 33331 23444 44543 Used With Text: 'Tis the Dear Lord Calling

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'Tis the Dear Lord Calling

Author: E. A. H. Hymnal: Pentecostal Hymns No. 1 #178 (1894) First Line: Hark! what sound salutes your ear? Languages: English Tune Title: [Hark! what sound salutes your ear?]

'Tis the dear Lord calling

Author: Elisha A. Hoffman; Elisha Albright Hoffman Hymnal: Sunday School Chimes #d33 (1894) First Line: Hark, what sound salutes your ear Whose the gentle voice you hear

1839 - 1929 Author of "'Tis the Dear Lord Calling" 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) ==============