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Author: E. A. H. Appears in 3 hymnals First Line: Tell me of Jesus, wonderful Saviour Refrain First Line: He died for you, He died for me Used With Tune: [Tell me of Jesus, wonderful Saviour]

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[Tell me of Jesus, wonderful Saviour]

Appears in 3 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Elisha A. Hoffman Tune Key: E Flat Major Incipit: 33431 55653 33431 Used With Text: Tell Me of Jesus

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Tell Me of Jesus

Author: E. A. H. Hymnal: Celestial Showers No. 1, a collection of gospel songs used in Rev. I. Toliver's Meetings #10 (1895) First Line: Tell me of Jesus, wonderful Savior Refrain First Line: He died for you, he died for me Languages: English Tune Title: [Tell me of Jesus, wonderful Savior]

Tell Me of Jesus

Author: E. A. H. Hymnal: Songs of the Evening Light #16 (1897) First Line: Tell me of Jesus, wonderful Saviour Refrain First Line: He died for you, He died for me Languages: English Tune Title: [Tell me of Jesus, wonderful Saviour]

Tell Me of Jesus

Author: E. A. H. Hymnal: Favorite Gospel Songs #87 (1894) First Line: Tell me of Jesus, wonderful Saviour Refrain First Line: He died for you, He died for me Languages: English Tune Title: [Tell me of Jesus, wonderful Saviour]

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E. A. Hoffman

1839 - 1929 Person Name: Elisha A. Hoffman Author of "Tell Me of Jesus" 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) ==============