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What a Wonderful Savior

Author: Elisha A. Hoffman Appears in 4 hymnals First Line: I came to Jesus with my sin, what a wonderful Savior Refrain First Line: What a wonderful Savior is Jesus

[I came to Jesus with my sin]

Appears in 4 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Rev. Elisha A. Hoffman Incipit: 51113 56512 32125 Used With Text: What a Wonderful Savior!

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Author: E. A. H. Hymnal: Triumphant Songs No.2 #56 (1889) First Line: I came to Jesus with my sin Refrain First Line: What a wonderful Savior is Jesus Lyrics: 1 I came to Jesus with my sin, What a wonderful Savior. My heart he kindly entered in, What a wonderful Savior! Refrain: What a wonderful Savior is Jesus! What a Savior! what a Savior! What a wonderful Savior is Jesus! He saves me now! 2 Tho’ all defiled and vile within What a wonderful Savior. Tho’ full of evil and unclean, What a wonderful Savior! [Refrain] 3 Rejoicing now each day I am; What a wonderful Savior. And singing “Glory to the Lamb!” What a wonderful Savior! [Refrain] 4 My soul is fill’d with perfect peace What a wonderful Savior. And finds in him its happiness, What a wonderful Savior! [Refrain] Tune Title: [I came to Jesus with my sin]

What a Wonderful Savior!

Author: E. A. H. Hymnal: International Praise #97 (1902) First Line: I came to Jesus with my sin Refrain First Line: What a wonderful Savior is Jesus! Languages: English Tune Title: [I came to Jesus with my sin]

What a Wonderful Savior!

Author: E. A. H. Hymnal: Revival Songs No. 2 #31 (1903) First Line: I came to Jesus with my sin Refrain First Line: What a wonderful Savior is Jesus Languages: English Tune Title: [I came to Jesus with my sin]

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E. A. Hoffman

1839 - 1929 Person Name: E. A. H. Author of "What a Wonderful Savior!" in Triumphant Songs No.2 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) ==============