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Power for Service

Author: Elisha A. Hoffman Appears in 5 hymnals First Line: Spirit of power, anoint me for service Refrain First Line: Fill me with power for service and use me

[Spirit of power, anoint me for service]

Appears in 4 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Benjamin Franklin Butts Tune Key: B Flat Major Incipit: 55556 71765 36665 Used With Text: Power for Service

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Author: Elisha Albright Hoffman Hymnal: The Cyber Hymnal #5688 First Line: Spirit of power, anoint me for service Refrain First Line: Fill me with power for service and use me Lyrics: 1. Spirit of power, anoint me for service, Spirit of holiness, cleanse Thou my heart; Give to my soul of Thyself a new vision, And a new measure of power impart. Refrain Fill me with power for service and use me; Is there not some work my weak hands can do? Make me a channel of life and of blessing, And with the Spirit anoint me anew. 2. Not one lost soul have I won for Thy kingdom, All of my life has been fruitless and waste; Others have joy for the jewels ingathered; May not my soul of this joy have a taste? [Refrain] 3. Never before has my soul so an hungered For Thy infilling, O Spirit of love! Come to the throne, be my Master and Ruler, Reign Thou and draw my affections above. [Refrain] 4. Myself I yield in complete consecration, Body and spirit and soul to be Thine; Spirit of power, regard Thou my yearnings, And fill Thou me with Thy fullness divine. [Refrain] Languages: English Tune Title: [Spirit of power, anoint me for service]

Power for Service

Author: Elisha A. Hoffman Hymnal: Pentecostal Hymns No. 4 #126 (1907) First Line: Spirit of power, anoint me for service Refrain First Line: Fill me with power for service, and use me Topics: Consecration; Holy Spirit; Power; Prayer; Rally Day; Work, Service Tune Title: [Spirit of power, anoint me for service]

Power for Service

Author: Elisha A. Hoffman Hymnal: Pentecostal Hymns Nos. 3 and 4 Combined #469 (1907) First Line: Spirit of power, anoint me for service Refrain First Line: Fill me with power for service, and use me Topics: Consecration; Holy Spirit; Power; Prayer; Rally Day; Work, Service Tune Title: [Spirit of power, anoint me for service]

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E. A. Hoffman

1839 - 1929 Person Name: Elisha Albright Hoffman Author of "Power for Service" in The Cyber Hymnal 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) ==============

Benjamin Franklin Butts

1866 - 1935 Composer of "[Spirit of power, anoint me for service]" in The Cyber Hymnal Born: September 7, 1867, Ohio. Died: May 25, 1935, Las Cruces, New Mexico. Buried: Home of Peace Cemetery, Porterville, California. Son of Samuel F. Butts & Hannah Colton, Benjamin studied music at a young age. He started in business in Kansas City, but entered the evangelism field in 1888. He married three times: To Eva Grace Lambright (1867-1941), Mary Emma Rawlings (1869-1919), and Onna Barrett Mills (1896-1963). His works include: Tears and Triumphs No. 4, with Lycurgus Pickett & William Marks (Louisville, Kentucky: Pentecostal Publishing Company, 1910) Good News Hymns (Chicago, Illinois: The Biglow & Main Company, 1914) Sources: Findagrave, accessed 19 Nov 2016 © The Cyber Hymnal™. Used by permission. (www.hymntime.com)