Linger No Longer

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: Linger no longer, Jesus is waiting
Title: Linger No Longer
Author: Elisha A. Hoffman
Language: English
Refrain First Line: Linger no longer, come, come to Jesus
Copyright: Public Domain

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Happy Voices No. 1 #d87

Heart Praise #d109

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Pentecostal Hymns No. 1 #115

Bells of Heaven #d215

Bells of Heaven #d191

Sunday School Chimes #d73

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