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Now Is The Time

Author: Elisha A. Hoffman Appears in 3 hymnals First Line: Now is the time to decide for Christ Refrain First Line: O, ye halting ones

[Now is the time to decide for Christ]

Appears in 1 hymnal Composer and/or Arranger: James Windsor Tune Key: B Flat Major Used With Text: Now Is The Time

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Now Is The Time

Author: E. A. Hoffman Hymnal: Sweeter Than All Songs #12 (1927) First Line: Now is the time to decide for Christ Tune Title: [Now is the time to decide for Christ]

Just now, now is the time

Author: Jennie Ree Hymnal: Gospel Melodies #d141 (1928) First Line: Now is the time to decide for Christ Languages: English

O, ye halting ones

Author: Elisha A. Hoffman; Elisha Albright Hoffman Hymnal: Songs for the Harvest Field #d80 (1891) First Line: Now is the time to decide for Christ

1839 - 1929 Person Name: Elisha A. Hoffman Author of "Now Is The Time" 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) ==============

Chas. H. Gabriel

1856 - 1932 Person Name: Jennie Ree Author of "Just now, now is the time" in Gospel Melodies Pseudonyms: C. D. Emerson, Charlotte G. Homer, S. B. Jackson, A. W. Lawrence, Jennie Ree ============= For the first seventeen years of his life Charles Hutchinson Gabriel (b. Wilton, IA, 1856; d. Los Angeles, CA, 1932) lived on an Iowa farm, where friends and neighbors often gathered to sing. Gabriel accompanied them on the family reed organ he had taught himself to play. At the age of sixteen he began teaching singing in schools (following in his father's footsteps) and soon was acclaimed as a fine teacher and composer. He moved to California in 1887 and served as Sunday school music director at the Grace Methodist Church in San Francisco. After moving to Chicago in 1892, Gabriel edited numerous collections of anthems, cantatas, and a large number of songbooks for the Homer Rodeheaver, Hope, and E. O. Excell publishing companies. He composed hundreds of tunes and texts, at times using pseudonyms such as Charlotte G. Homer. The total number of his compositions is estimated at about seven thousand. Gabriel's gospel songs became widely circulated through the Billy Sunday-Homer Rodeheaver urban crusades. Bert Polman