Come in, O Christ

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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 >

Text Information

First Line: My heart is humbled in the dust
Title: Come in, O Christ
Author: Elisha A. Hoffman
Language: English
Refrain First Line: I'm kneeling at Thy feet, dear Lord
Copyright: Public Domain

Tune

[My heart is humbled in the dust]Highcharts.com
Frequency of use
[My heart is humbled in the dust]


Timeline

Appearance of this hymn in hymnals18911892189318941895189618971898189919001901190219031904190519061907050100Percent of hymnalsHighcharts.com

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