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[Herr, ich nah' zum Gnadenthrone]

Appears in 6 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Rev. E. A. Hoffman Incipit: 55535 55355 56244 Used With Text: Herr, ich komme

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Herr, ich komme

Author: Carl Röhl; E. A. H. Appears in 3 hymnals First Line: Herr, ich nah' zum Gnadenthrone Used With Tune: [Herr, ich nah' zum Gnadenthrone]
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I am Coming

Author: E. A. H. Appears in 3 hymnals First Line: I am coming, Lord, and kneeling Refrain First Line: I am coming, I am coming Lyrics: 1 I am coming, Lord, and kneeling At Thy footstool low, And I pray with tender feeling, “Oh! save me now.” Refrain: I am coming, I am coming, Blessed Jesus, just now; Bless and heal me, cleanse and seal me, I am coming just now. 2 Sin and guilt in shame confessing, At Thy feet I blow; While I linger for the blessing, Oh! save me now. [Refrain] 3 Hear my plea, O blessed Savior! While in tears I bow; Grant to me Thy grace and favor Just now, just now. [Refrain] 4 Kindly, tenderly receive me, As I humbly pray; Freely, graciously forgive me Today, today. [Refrain] Used With Tune: [I am coming, Lord, and kneeling]

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I am Coming

Author: E. A. H. Hymnal: Honey Out of the Rock #66 (1894) First Line: I am coming, Lord, and kneeling Refrain First Line: I am coming, I am coming Lyrics: 1 I am coming, Lord, and kneeling At Thy footstool low, And I pray with tender feeling, “Oh! save me now.” Refrain: I am coming, I am coming, Blessed Jesus, just now; Bless and heal me, cleanse and seal me, I am coming just now. 2 Sin and guilt in shame confessing, At Thy feet I blow; While I linger for the blessing, Oh! save me now. [Refrain] 3 Hear my plea, O blessed Savior! While in tears I bow; Grant to me Thy grace and favor Just now, just now. [Refrain] 4 Kindly, tenderly receive me, As I humbly pray; Freely, graciously forgive me Today, today. [Refrain] Languages: English Tune Title: [I am coming, Lord, and kneeling]
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I am Coming

Author: E. A. H. Hymnal: Gospel Herald in Song #167 (1899) First Line: I am coming, Lord, and kneeling Refrain First Line: I am coming, I am coming Topics: Joy; Repentance Scripture: Romans 3:25 Languages: English Tune Title: [I am coming, Lord, and kneeling]
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I am Coming

Author: E. A. H. Hymnal: Honey Out of the Rock #66 (1892) First Line: I am coming, Lord, and kneeling Languages: English Tune Title: [I am coming, Lord, and kneeling]

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E. A. Hoffman

1839 - 1929 Person Name: E. A. H. Author of "Herr, ich komme" in Evangelisches Gesangbuch 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) ==============

Carl Röhl

Translator of "Herr, ich komme" in Evangelisches Gesangbuch
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