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Author: Elisha A. Hoffman Appears in 3 hymnals First Line: Though far from the fold of the Saviour Refrain First Line: Come home, come home Used With Tune: [Though far from the fold of the Saviour]

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[Though far from the fold of the Saviour]

Appears in 2 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: John M. Richardson Incipit: 51113 21611 22254 Used With Text: He Calleth Me Home

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He Calleth Me Home

Author: Elisha A. Hoffman Hymnal: Words of Truth #45 (1892) First Line: Though far from the fold of the Saviour Refrain First Line: Come home, come home Languages: English Tune Title: [Though far from the fold of the Saviour]

He Calleth Me Home

Author: Rev. Elisha A. Hoffman Hymnal: Living Songs #163 (1892) First Line: Though far from the fold of the Saviour Refrain First Line: Come home, come home Languages: English Tune Title: [Though far from the fold of the Saviour]

He calleth me home

Author: Elisha A. Hoffman; Elisha Albright Hoffman Hymnal: Living Songs for the Sunday School, the Epworth League, Prayer Meetings, Revivals ... #d165 (1897) First Line: Though far from the fold of the Savior Refrain First Line: Come home, come home Languages: English

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E. A. Hoffman

1839 - 1929 Person Name: Elisha A. Hoffman Author of "He Calleth Me Home" 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) ==============