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Courage!

Author: C. F. Richardson Appears in 2 hymnals First Line: We have chosen to follow the crucified Lord Refrain First Line: We will follow

[We have chosen to follow the crucified Lord]

Appears in 1 hymnal Composer and/or Arranger: Ira O. Hoffman Used With Text: Courage

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Author: Charles F. Richardson Hymnal: Celestial Showers No. 1, a collection of gospel songs used in Rev. I. Toliver's Meetings #85 (1895) First Line: We have chosen to follow the crucified Lord Refrain First Line: We will follow Languages: English Tune Title: [We have chosen to follow the crucified Lord]

Courage!

Author: C. F. Richardson Hymnal: Temperance Jewels #74 (1879) First Line: We have chosen to follow the crucified Lord Refrain First Line: We will follow

People

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E. A. Hoffman

1839 - 1929 Person Name: Elisha A. Hoffman Author of "Courage" 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) ==============

Ira O. Hoffman

1867 - 1943 Arranger of "[We have chosen to follow the crucified Lord]" in Celestial Showers No. 1, a collection of gospel songs used in Rev. I. Toliver's Meetings Born: Circa 1867, Pennsylvania. Died: May 4, 1943, Cleveland, Ohio. Ira’s father was song writer Elisha Hoffman. His middle name was his mother’s maiden name. At age nine, he is said to have written the music for his father’s song "The Little Pilgrim;" as an adult, he was a composer, arranger, and music editor. His works include: Favorite Gospel Songs: A Tune Boo (music editor) (Jersey City, New Jersey: J. N. Davis, 1894) --www.hymntime.com/tch

C. F. Richardson

1851 - 1913 Author of "Courage!" in Temperance Jewels Richardson, Charles Francis, born at Hallowell, Me., May 29, 1851; graduated at Dartmouth 1871; from 1882 Professor of Anglo-Saxon and English Literature at Dartmouth; published The Cross, 1879, from which "If suddenly upon the street" (Sacrifice for Christ) in Horder's Worship Song, 1905, and others, is taken. --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, New Supplement (1907)