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Let Us Tarry Till the Blessing

Author: Rev. Elisha A. Hoffman Appears in 3 hymnals First Line: We are thirsting for refreshing show'rs Refrain First Line: Let us tarry till the blessing comes Used With Tune: [We are thirsting for refreshing show'rs]

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[We are thirsting for refreshing show'rs]

Appears in 3 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Wm. Edie Marks Incipit: 34555 65353 45116 Used With Text: Let Us Tarry Till the Blessing

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Let Us Tarry Till the Blessing

Author: Rev. Elisha A. Hoffman Hymnal: Tabernacle Songs #19 (1909) First Line: We are thirsting for refreshing show'rs Refrain First Line: Let us tarry till the blessing comes Languages: English Tune Title: [We are thirsting for refreshing show'rs]

Let Us Tarry Till the Blessing

Author: Rev. Elisha A. Hoffman Hymnal: The Revival No. 6 #86 (1910) First Line: We are thirsting for refreshing show'rs Refrain First Line: Let us tarry till the blessing comes Languages: English Tune Title: [We are thirsting for refreshing show'rs]

Let us Tarry Till the Blessing

Author: Rev. Elisha A. Hoffman Hymnal: Revival Special #149 (1905) First Line: We are thirsting for refreshing show'rs Refrain First Line: Let us tarry till the blessing comes Languages: English Tune Title: [We are thirsting for refreshing show'rs]

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E. A. Hoffman

1839 - 1929 Person Name: Rev. Elisha A. Hoffman Author of "Let us Tarry Till the Blessing" in Revival Special 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) ==============

William Edie Marks

1872 - 1954 Person Name: Wm. Edie Marks Composer of "[We are thirsting for refreshing show'rs]" in Revival Special Born: July 1872, Delaware (probably Wilmington) Died: November 20, 1954, Wilmington, Delaware. Buried: Lombardy Cemetery, Wilmington, Delaware. Marks was apparently living in Wilmington, Delaware, in 1913. His works include: Cream of Song, with Leander Pickett & O. B. Culpepper & (Louisville, Kentucky: Pickett Publishing Company, 1906) Tears and Triumphs No. 4, with Leander Pickett & Benjamin Butts (Louisville, Kentucky: Pentecostal Publishing Company, 1910) Noted Hymns, 1927 (editor) Lyrics-- Christmas Joy Tasting the Joys Trying to Be More like Jesus We Shall Hear Him Say, "Well Done" Music-- Best Thing I Ever Did, The End Is Not Yet, The I Am Going to Continue In the Morning We Shall See It Is Mine Jesus Satisfies Jesus Took the Burden Off Keep Telling It Last Mile of the Way, The Let Jesus Remove It Today Lift Thy Face to the Light! Rapture Indeed! Tell It Wherever You Go When We Use Our Talents You Ought to Know Him http://www.hymntime.com/tch/bio/m/a/r/k/marks_we.htm