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[We meet today to magnify]

Appears in 2 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: J. D. Patton Incipit: 55131 17676 55543 Used With Text: His Name Is Jesus

His Name Is Jesus

Author: Rev. Elisha A. Hoffman Appears in 4 hymnals First Line: We meet today to magnify Used With Tune: [We meet today to magnify]

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His Name Is Jesus

Author: Rev. Elisha A. Hoffman Hymnal: Singing for Joy #201 (1902) First Line: We meet today to magnify Languages: English Tune Title: [We meet today to magnify]

His Name Is Jesus

Author: Elisha A. Hoffman Hymnal: Gospel Praise #4 (1900) First Line: We meet today to magnify Languages: English Tune Title: [We meet today to magnify]

1839 - 1929 Person Name: Rev. Elisha A. Hoffman Author of "His Name Is Jesus" in Singing for Joy 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) ==============