Der große Erlöser

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Es hat durchs Kreuz uns Heil gebracht

Translator: F. Friedrich; Author: Elisha A. Hoffman
Tune: [Christ has for sin atonement made] (Hoffman)
Published in 4 hymnals

Translator: F. Friedrich

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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 >

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First Line:	Es hat durchs Kreuz uns Heil gebracht
Title:	Der große Erlöser
English Title:	What a Wonderful Savior
Author:	Elisha A. Hoffman
Translator:	F. Friedrich
Language:	German
Refrain First Line:	O ein großer Erlöser ist Jesus
Copyright:	Public Domain