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I know not why he loves me with such

Author: Elisha A. Hoffman; Elisha Albright Hoffman Appears in 11 hymnals

[I know not why he loves me with such]

Appears in 2 hymnals Incipit: 55565 15127 65334 Used With Text: One Thing I Know

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Author: Rev. Elisha A. Hoffman Hymnal: Favorite Gospel Songs #52 (1894) First Line: I know not why he loves me with such Languages: English Tune Title: [I know not why he loves me with such]

I know not why he loves me with such

Author: Elisha A. Hoffman; Elisha Albright Hoffman Hymnal: Warrior Songs for the White Cavalry #d39 (1897)

I know not why he loves me with such

Author: Elisha A. Hoffman; Elisha Albright Hoffman Hymnal: Best Hymns No. 2 #d49 (1899) Languages: English

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E. A. Hoffman

1839 - 1929 Person Name: Rev. Elisha A. Hoffman Author of "One Thing I Know" in Favorite Gospel Songs 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) ==============