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Why Keep Jesus Waiting

Author: E. A. Hoffman Appears in 2 hymnals First Line: Why keep Jesus waiting, waiting at the door? Refrain First Line: Open now your heart

[Why keep Jesus waiting, waiting at the door]

Appears in 2 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Rev. Elisha A. Hoffman Incipit: 33331 11111 22222 Used With Text: Why Keep Jesus Waiting

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Author: E. A. H. Hymnal: Triumphant Songs No.2 #27 (1889) First Line: Why keep Jesus waiting, waiting at the door Refrain First Line: Open now your heart Lyrics: 1 Why keep Jesus waiting, waiting at the door? Why resist the Spirit, o’er and o’er? O how hard thy heart must be! O how blind with sin! That so good and kind a guest may not enter in! Refrain: Open now your heart, Let the Savior in, Sinner, now admit him and be saved from sin. 2 Why keep Jesus standing, weary, faint and sore? Why not open gladly, now the door? O how tenderly he pleads, And how patient he! Canst thou still resist such grace and such love to thee? [Refrain] 3 Why not now accept him, trust his grace and live? For his heart is ready, to forgive. Shall his love resisted be? Shall he plead in vain? Shall he leave thee, nevermore to return again? [Refrain] Tune Title: [Why keep Jesus waiting, waiting at the door]

Why Keep Jesus Waiting?

Author: E. A. H. Hymnal: Triumphant Songs Nos. 1 and 2 Combined #245 (1890) First Line: Why keep Jesus waiting Refrain First Line: Open now your heart Languages: English Tune Title: [Why keep Jesus waiting]

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E. A. Hoffman

1839 - 1929 Person Name: E. A. H. Author of "Why Keep Jesus Waiting" in Triumphant Songs No.2 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) ==============