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This is Why I Love My Jesus
Author: Rev. Elisha A. Hoffman Appears in 65 hymnals First Line: Would you know why I love Jesus? Used With Tune: [Would you know why I love Jesus?]
This is Why I Love My Jesus
[Would you know why I love Jesus?]
Appears in 11 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: E. O. Excell Incipit: 34517 65312 35251 Used With Text: Why I Love Jesus
[Would you know why I love Jesus?]
[Would you know why I love Jesus]
Appears in 25 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Rev. Elisha A. Hoffman Incipit: 55111 31311 55666 Used With Text: Why I Love my Jesus
[Would you know why I love Jesus]
[Would you know why I love Jesus?]
Appears in 4 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: J. H. F. Incipit: 33355 44323 45653 Used With Text: Why I Love Jesus
[Would you know why I love Jesus?]
Why I Love my Jesus
Author: E. A. H. Hymnal: Showers of Blessing #116 (1888) First Line: Would you know why I love Jesus Refrain First Line: This is why I love my Jesus Lyrics: 1 Would you know why I love Jesus?
Why He is so dear to me?
‘Tis because my blessed Jesus
From my sin has ransomed me.
Refrain:
This is why I love my Jesus,
This is why I love him so,
He atoned for my transgressions,
He has washed me white as snow.
2 Would you know why I love Jesus?
Why He is so dear to me?
‘Tis because the blood of Jesus
Fully saves and cleanses me. [Refrain]
3 Would you know why I love Jesus?
Why He is so dear to me?
‘Tis because, amid temptation,
He supports and strengthens me. [Refrain]
4 Would you know why I love Jesus?
Why He is so dear to me?
‘Tis because, in ev’ry conflict,
Jesus gives me victory. [Refrain]
5 Would you know why I love Jesus?
Why He is so dear to me?
‘Tis because my Friend and Saviour
He will ever, ever be. [Refrain] Tune Title: [Would you know why I love Jesus]
Why I Love my Jesus
Why I Love Jesus
Hymnal: Triumphant Songs No.4 #138 (1894) First Line: Would you know why I love Jesus Refrain First Line: This is why, yes, why I love Him Lyrics: 1 Would you know why I love Jesus?
Why He is so dear to me?
‘Tis because my blessed Savior
From my sins hath set me free.
Refrain:
This is why, yes, why I love Him,
This is why I love Him so;
He has pardoned my transgressions,
He has washed me white as snow.
2 Would you know why I love Jesus?
Why He is so dear to me?
‘Tis because the blood of Jesus
Fully saves and cleanses me. [Refrain]
3 Would you know why I love Jesus?
Why He is so dear to me?
‘Tis because, amid temptation,
He supports and strengthens me. [Refrain]
4 Would you know why I love Jesus?
Why He is so dear to me?
‘Tis because, in every conflict,
Jesus gives me victory. [Refrain]
5 Would you know why I love Jesus?
Why He is so dear to me?
‘Tis because my Friend and Savior
He will ever, ever be. [Refrain] Tune Title: [Would you know why I love Jesus]
Why I Love Jesus
Why I Love Jesus
Author: Elisha Albright Hoffman Hymnal: The Cyber Hymnal #10814 First Line: Would you know why I love Jesus? Refrain First Line: This is why, yes, why I love Him Lyrics: 1 Would you know why I love Jesus?
Why He is so dear to me?
’Tis because my blessèd Savior
From my sins hath set me free.
Refrain:
This is why, yes, why I love Him,
This is why I love Him so;
He has pardoned my transgressions,
He has washed me white as snow.
2 Would you know why I love Jesus?
Why He is so dear to me?
’Tis because the blood of Jesus
Fully saves and cleanses me. [Refrain]
3 Would you know why I love Jesus?
Why He is so dear to me?
’Tis because, amid temptation,
He supports and strengthens me. [Refrain]
4 Would you know why I love Jesus?
Why He is so dear to me?
’Tis because, in every conflict,
Jesus gives me victory. [Refrain]
5 Would you know why I love Jesus?
Why He is so dear to me?
’Tis because my friend and Savior
He will ever, ever be. [Refrain]
Languages: English Tune Title: [Would you know why I love Jesus]
Why I Love Jesus
J. H. Fillmore
1849 - 1936 Person Name: J. H. F. Composer of "[Would you know why I love Jesus?]" in Songs of Gratitude James Henry Fillmore USA 1849-1936. Born at Cincinnati, OH, he helped support his family by running his father's singing school. He married Annie Eliza McKrell in 1880, and they had five children. After his father's death he and his brothers, Charles and Frederick, founded the Fillmore Brothers Music House in Cincinnati, specializing in publishing religious music. He was also an author, composer, and editor of music, composing hymn tunes, anthems, and cantatas, as well as publishing 20+ Christian songbooks and hymnals. He issued a monthly periodical “The music messsenger”, typically putting in his own hymns before publishing them in hymnbooks. Jessie Brown Pounds, also a hymnist, contributed song lyrics to the Fillmore Music House for 30 years, and many tunes were composed for her lyrics. He was instrumental in the prohibition and temperance efforts of the day. His wife died in 1913, and he took a world tour trip with single daughter, Fred (a church singer), in the early 1920s. He died in Cincinnati. His son, Henry, became a bandmaster/composer.
John Perry
J. H. Fillmore
E. O. Excell
1851 - 1921 Composer of "[Would you know why I love Jesus]" in Triumphant Songs No.4 Edwin Othello Excel USA 1851-1921. Born at Uniontown, OH, he started working as a bricklayer and plasterer. He loved music and went to Chicago to study it under George Root. He married Eliza Jane “Jennie” Bell in 1871. They had a son, William, in 1874. A member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, he became a prominent publisher, composer, song leader, and singer of music for church, Sunday school, and evangelistic meetings. He founded singing schools at various locations in the country and worked with evangelist, Sam Jones, as his song leader for two decades. He established a music publishing house in Chicago and authored or composed over 2,000 gospel songs. While assisting Gypsy Smith in an evangelistic campaign in Louisville, KY, he became ill, and died in Chicago, IL. He published 15 gospel music books between 1882-1925. He left an estate valued at $300,000.
John Perry
E. O. Excell
E. A. Hoffman
1839 - 1929 Person Name: E. A. H. Author of "Why I Love Jesus" in Pentecostal Hymns Nos. 3 and 4 Combined 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
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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)
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E. A. Hoffman
