Delay Not to Come

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Author: Elisha A. Hoffman

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… Go to person page >

Text Information

First Line: Delay not to come to Christ
Title: Delay Not to Come
Author: Elisha A. Hoffman
Language: English
Refrain First Line: Delay not to come
Copyright: Public Domain

Tune

[Delay not to come to Christ!]Highcharts.com
Frequency of use
[Delay not to come to Christ!]


Timeline

Appearance of this hymn in hymnals18811882188318841885188618871888188918901891050100Percent of hymnalsHighcharts.com

Instances

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