Ihm gebührt die Ehre

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Es war dort zu den Füßen Jesu

Translator: H. J. Dyck; Author: Elisha A. Hoffman
Tune: [It was down at the feet of Jesus]
Published in 2 hymnals

Translator: H. J. Dyck

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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 war dort zu den Füßen Jesu
Title:	Ihm gebührt die Ehre
English Title:	Give Him the Glory (It was down at the feet of Jesus)
Author:	Elisha A. Hoffman
Translator:	H. J. Dyck
Language:	German
Refrain First Line:	Ich erzähl' davon so gerne
Copyright:	Public Domain