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Author: Elisha A. Hoffman Appears in 8 hymnals Hymnal Title: Calvin Hymnary Project First Line: The Lord is coming by and by, Be ready when He comes Refrain First Line: He is coming, coming

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[The Lord is coming by and by]

Appears in 5 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Elisha Abright Hoffman Hymnal Title: The Cyber Hymnal Tune Sources: Gospel Hymns No. 6, by Ira D. Sankey et al. (Cincinnati, Ohio: John Church, 1891) Tune Key: G Major Incipit: 51111 23331 22171 Used With Text: The Lord Is Coming By and By

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The Lord Is Coming

Author: E. A. H. Hymnal: Celestial Songs #556 (1921) Hymnal Title: Celestial Songs First Line: The Lord is coming by and by Refrain First Line: Will you be ready when the Bridegroom comes Languages: English Tune Title: [The Lord is coming by and by]

Will you be ready when the Bridegroom comes

Hymnal: Christian Endeavor Edition of Gospel Hymns No. 6 #36 (1891) Hymnal Title: Christian Endeavor Edition of Gospel Hymns No. 6 First Line: The Lord is coming by and by Languages: English

The Lord is Coming

Author: E. A. H. Hymnal: Gospel Hymns No. 6 #36 (1891) Hymnal Title: Gospel Hymns No. 6 First Line: The Lord is coming by and by Refrain First Line: Will you be ready when the Bridegroom comes Languages: English Tune Title: [The Lord is coming by and by]

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E. A. Hoffman

1839 - 1929 Person Name: Elisha A. Hoffman Hymnal Title: The Cyber Hymnal Author of "The Lord Is Coming By and By" in The Cyber Hymnal 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) ==============