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Gospel Echoes #16
Display Title: Because He Loves Me So First Line: Why came the Savior from above Tune Title: [Why came the Savior from above] Author: Elisha A. Hoffman Date: 1877
Gospel Echoes #16
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Because He Loves Me So
Why came the Savior from above
Author: Elisha A. HoffmanTune: [Why came the Savior from above]
Published in 4 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.
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Infant Praises #73
Display Title: Because He Loves Me so First Line: Why came the Saviour from above Tune Title: [Why came the Saviour from above] Author: Rev. E. A. Hoffman Date: 1887
Infant Praises #73
Junior Songs #113
Display Title: Because He Loves Me So First Line: Why came the Saviour from above Tune Title: [Why came the Saviour from above] Author: Rev. E. A. Hoffman Date: 1892 Source: Arr. from "Happy Songs," by per
Junior Songs #113
Spicy Breezes #27
Display Title: Because He Loves Me So First Line: Why came the Saviour from above Tune Title: [Why came the Saviour from above] Author: Rev. E. A. Hoffman Date: 1883
Spicy Breezes #27
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