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Lord, Let Me Hide

Author: Rev. E. A. Hoffman Appears in 2 hymnals First Line: In the cleft of thy dear side Refrain First Line: Let me hide at thy side Used With Tune: [In the cleft of thy dear side]
Lord, Let Me Hide

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[In the cleft of thy dear side]

Appears in 1 hymnal Composer and/or Arranger: John F. Bonnell Incipit: 35554 53235 42355 Used With Text: Lord, Let Me Hide
[In the cleft of thy dear side]

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Lord, Let Me Hide

Author: Rev. E. A. Hoffman Hymnal: Living Songs #12 (1892) First Line: In the cleft of thy dear side Refrain First Line: Let me hide at thy side Languages: English Tune Title: [In the cleft of thy dear side]
Lord, Let Me Hide

Lord, let me hide

Author: Elisha A. Hoffman; Elisha Albright Hoffman Hymnal: Living Songs for the Sunday School, the Epworth League, Prayer Meetings, Revivals ... #d69 (1897) First Line: In the cleft of thy dear side Refrain First Line: Let me hide at thy side Languages: English
Lord, let me hide

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E. A. Hoffman

1839 - 1929 Person Name: Elisha A. Hoffman Author of "Lord, Let Me Hide" 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) ==============
E. A. Hoffman

John F. Bonnell

Composer of "[In the cleft of thy dear side]" in Living Songs
John F. Bonnell
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