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.
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Translator: Adolfo Robleto
Born: January 4, 1917, Managua, Nicaragua.
Died: April 1, 1994, Texas.
Pseudonyms:
Daniel R. Diaz
Pablo Filós
Robleto attended the Colegio Bautista in Managua (graduated 1940), and the Baptist Seminary in New Orleans, Louisiana, and pastored churches in Nicaragua, Costa Rica and Texas. He also directed the Department of Administration of Churches and Pastoral Leadership, edited The Christian Home for the Casa Bautista de Publicaciones, and translated about 200 hymns from English to Spanish. His works include:
501 Ilustraciones Nuevas
Doctrina Cristiana
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Display Title: ¡Cuán Glorioso Es Mi Cristo!First Line: Por mi maldad Jesús muríoTune Title: BENTON HARBORAuthor: Adolfo Robleto; Elisha A. HoffmanScripture: John 1:14Date: 1978
Display Title: ¡Cuán Glorioso Es Mi Cristo!First Line: Por mi maldad Jesús muríoTune Title: BENTON HARBORAuthor: Adolfo Robleto; Elisha A. HoffmanScripture: John 1:14Date: 1978