Drifting Away

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Author: Rev. E. 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: Drifting away from Thy love
Title: Drifting Away
Author: Rev. E. A. Hoffman
Language: English
Refrain First Line: Drifting, drifting
Publication Date: 1942
Copyright: This text may still be under copyright because it was published in 1942.

Tune

[Drifting away from Thy love]Highcharts.com
Frequency of use
[Drifting away from Thy love]


Timeline

Appearance of this hymn in hymnals1918192019221924192619281930193219341936193819401942050100Percent of hymnalsHighcharts.com

Instances

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