MA NA LIMA MAU E HILINA'I

Translator: "Hualalai", 1852-1938

"Hualalai" was the pen name of Ellen (or Ella) Hudson Paris, 1852-1938, daughter of John Davis Paris, a missionary in Hawai'i. (more information can be found on John Davis Paris and Hualalai on John Davis Paris's Wikipedia page). Go to person page >

Author: Elisha A. Hoffman, 1839-1929

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: Kei ka launa pu, oli lani e
Title: MA NA LIMA MAU E HILINA'I
English Title: Leaning On the Everlasting Arm
Translator: "Hualalai", 1852-1938
Author: Elisha A. Hoffman, 1839-1929
Language: Hawaiian
Refrain First Line: Pili Pili, Mala, a palekana mau
Publication Date: 1972
Copyright: This text may still be under copyright because it was published in 1972.

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