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[Be with us, Lord, as forth we go]

[Be with us, Lord, as forth we go]

Composer: Elisha A. Hoffman (1894)
Published in 9 hymnals


Audio files: MIDI

Composer: 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 >

Tune Information

Title: [Be with us, Lord, as forth we go]
Composer: Elisha A. Hoffman (1894)
Incipit: 53215 54322 22543
Copyright: Public Domain

Timeline

Instances

Instances (1 - 9 of 9)
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Bells of Heaven #127

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Celestial Showers No. 1, a collection of gospel songs used in Rev. I. Toliver's Meetings #104

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Christ in Song #536

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Jubilant Voices for Sunday Schools and Devotional Meetings #50

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Pentecostal Hymns No. 2 #25

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Songs of Faith and Hope #38

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Sunday School Voices, No.2 #170

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Sweet Harmonies #30

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Sweet Harmonies #30

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