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Pleading for the crumbs

Author: Elisha A. Hoffman; Elisha Albright Hoffman Appears in 2 hymnals First Line: Like Lazarus, with fainting heart Refrain First Line: As I am able I will serve

[Like Lazarus, with fainting heart]

Appears in 1 hymnal Composer and/or Arranger: J. D. Patton Incipit: 51231 12165 11232 Used With Text: Pleading for the Crumbs

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Author: Rev. Elisha A. Hoffman Hymnal: Singing for Joy #19 (1902) First Line: Like Lazarus, with fainting heart Refrain First Line: As I am able I will serve Languages: English Tune Title: [Like Lazarus, with fainting heart]

Pleading for the crumbs

Author: Elisha A. Hoffman; Elisha Albright Hoffman Hymnal: Our Thankful Songs #d94 (1900) First Line: Like Lazarus, with fainting heart Refrain First Line: As I am able I will serve

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E. A. Hoffman

1839 - 1929 Person Name: Rev. Elisha A. Hoffman Author of "Pleading for the Crumbs" in Singing for Joy 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) ==============