When others offend you or do you wrong

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When others offend you or do you wrong

Author: Elisha A. Hoffman
Tune: [When others offend you or do you wrong]
Published in 2 hymnals

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1 When others offend you or do you wrong,
Forgive, forgive, forgive;
Don't carry a burden of hatred along,
Forgive, forgive, forgive.
As Jesus has kindly forgiven you,
So you should forgive your playmates, too;
Forgive them, they know not what they do,
Forgive, forgive, forgive.

2 When others ill-treat you or give you pain,
Forgive, forgive, forgive;
Don't quarrel, or scold, or retort, or complain,
Forgive, forgive, forgive.
It only increases the bitter smart
That lies like a wound upon your heart;
Choose rather the nobler, better part,
Forgive, forgive, forgive.

Source: The Evergreen: songs for the Sunday school, sanctuary and home circle #98

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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 >

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