We Will Pray

We will pray, we will pray, at the dawning of the day

Author: Elisha A. Hoffman
Tune: [We will pray, we will pray at the dawning of the day]
Published in 2 hymnals

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: We will pray, we will pray, at the dawning of the day
Title: We Will Pray
Author: Elisha A. Hoffman
Language: English
Refrain First Line: We will pray, we will pray
Copyright: Public Domain

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Gleanings of Sacred Song #135

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The Jewelled Crown #94

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