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Dear Jesus, hear me

Author: Elisha A. Hoffman Appears in 11 hymnals First Line: Jesus, Savior, pity me, I am full of sin

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Pity me and save me

Author: E. A. Hoffman Hymnal: Pearly Gates #37 (1876) First Line: Jesus, Savior, pity me

Jesus, Savior, pity me

Hymnal: Hymns of Salvation #d61 (1869) Languages: English

Jesus, Savior, pity me

Hymnal: New Standard Singer #d123 (1869)

1839 - 1929 Person Name: Elisha A. Hoffman Author of "Dear Jesus, hear me" 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) ==============