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He Will Send Showers

Author: T. H. Appears in 2 hymnals First Line: He will send showers of blessing Refrain First Line: Showers of blessing Lyrics: 1 He will send showers of blessing; Such is the mind of our Lord; He will send showers of blessing, This is foretold in His word. Refrain: Showers of blessing, Floods of His goodness and love; Falling in showers Down from the Father above. 2 He will send showers of blessing; As is the glad days of old When, their Redeemer confessing, Thousands were bro’t to the fold. [Refrain] 3 He will send showers of blessing; Promise that never can fail; God’s Holy Spirit possessing, We shall not falter nor quail. [Refrain] 4 He will send showers of blessing; We have not tarried in vain; Failures and follies confessing, Mercy will cover each stain. [Refrain] 5 He will send showers of blessing; This is the day of His pow’r; God the great Giver addressing, Pray He will send them this hour. [Refrain] Used With Tune: [He will send showers of blessing]

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[He will send showers of blessing]

Appears in 1 hymnal Composer and/or Arranger: Thoro Harris Used With Text: He Will Send Showers

[He will send showers of blessing]

Appears in 2 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Rev. Elisha A. Hoffman Incipit: 34512 36223 47123 Used With Text: He Will Send Showers of Blessings

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He Will Send Showers

Author: T. H. Hymnal: Songs of Summerland #207 (1943) First Line: He will send showers of blessing Refrain First Line: Showers of blessing Lyrics: 1 He will send showers of blessing; Such is the mind of our Lord; He will send showers of blessing, This is foretold in His word. Refrain: Showers of blessing, Floods of His goodness and love; Falling in showers Down from the Father above. 2 He will send showers of blessing; As is the glad days of old When, their Redeemer confessing, Thousands were bro’t to the fold. [Refrain] 3 He will send showers of blessing; Promise that never can fail; God’s Holy Spirit possessing, We shall not falter nor quail. [Refrain] 4 He will send showers of blessing; We have not tarried in vain; Failures and follies confessing, Mercy will cover each stain. [Refrain] 5 He will send showers of blessing; This is the day of His pow’r; God the great Giver addressing, Pray He will send them this hour. [Refrain] Languages: English Tune Title: [He will send showers of blessing]

He Will Send Showers of Blessings

Author: T. H. Hymnal: Songs of Calvary #102 (1916) First Line: He will send showers of blessing Refrain First Line: Showers of blessing, showers refreshing Languages: English Tune Title: [He will send showers of blessing]

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Thoro Harris

1874 - 1955 Person Name: T. H. Author of "He Will Send Showers" in Songs of Summerland Born: March 31, 1874, Washington, DC. Died: March 27, 1955, Eureka Springs, Arkansas. Buried: International Order of Odd Fellows Cemetery, Eureka Springs, Arkansas. After attending college in Battle Creek, Michigan, Harris produced his first hymnal in Boston, Massachusetts, in 1902. He then moved to Chicago, Illinois at the invitation of Peter Bilhorn, and in 1932, to Eureka Springs, Arkansas. He composed and compiled a number of works, and was well known locally as he walked around with a canvas bag full of handbooks for sale. His works include: Light and Life Songs, with William Olmstead & William Kirkpatrick (Chicago, Illinois: S. K. J. Chesbro, 1904) Little Branches, with George J. Meyer & Howard E. Smith (Chicago, Illinois: Meyer & Brother, 1906) Best Temperance Songs (Chicago, Illinois: The Glad Tidings Publishing Company, 1913) (music editor) Hymns of Hope (Chicago, Illinois: Thoro Harris, undated, circa 1922) --www.hymntime.com/tch

E. A. Hoffman

1839 - 1929 Person Name: Rev. Elisha A. Hoffman Composer of "[He will send showers of blessing]" in Songs of Calvary 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) ==============