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E. A. Hoffman

1839 - 1929 Person Name: Elisha A. Hoffman Author of "If we send not the light" in Worship and Service 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 ============ Hoffman, Elisha Albright, author of "Have you been to Jesus for the cleansing power?" (Holiness desired), in I. D. Sankey's Sacred Songs and Solos, 1881, was born in Pennsylvania, May 7, 1839. --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, Appendix, Part II (1907) ==============
E. A. Hoffman

H. R. Christie

1848 - 1925 Composer of "[O ye children of God]" in Worship and Service Harvey Robert Christie, 1848-1925 Born: June 29, 1848, Mon­roe Coun­ty, West Vir­gin­ia. Died: March 19, 1925, Wil­low­ton, West Vir­gin­ia. Buried: Rest Ha­ven Me­mor­i­al Park, Prince­ton, West Vir­gin­ia. Christie taught sing­ing class­es from 1871 to 1874, which led him to a mu­sic­al ca­reer. He stu­died un­der Rig­don Mc­In­tosh, who at the time was in the mu­sic de­part­ment at Van­der­bilt Un­i­ver­si­ty. Christie re­mained in Ten­nes­see un­til 1876, when he re­turned to West Vir­gin­ia. Around 1877, he con­duct­ed a two month course at the Con­cord Nor­mal School, in Athens, West Vir­gin­ia, fol­lowed by a sim­i­lar course in Prince­ton, West Vir­gin­ia; Rur­al Re­treat, Vir­gin­ia (1878); and four cours­es in Snow­ville, Vir­gin­ia (1879-1880); and a nine month course at Rur­al Re­treat, Vir­gin­ia (1881). In 1881, he stu­died for a while at the Com­mer­cial Coll­ege at Ken­tucky Un­i­ver­si­ty, and in 1882, moved to Mil­li­gan Coll­ege, Ten­nes­see, where he event­u­al­ly rose to serve on the Board of Di­rect­ors. In 1894, Christie be­came mu­sic ed­it­or for the Stand­ard Pub­lish­ing Com­pa­ny in Cin­cin­na­ti, Ohio. His works in­clude: Favorite Songs (co-ed­it­or), 1876 Gospel Light, 1894 Songs of Ser­vice (music ed­it­or) (At­lan­ta, Georg­ia: R. M. Mc­In­tosh Co., 1896) The Christ­ian Church Hymn­al, 1906 Songs of Evan­gel­ism, 1911 Worship and Ser­vice (Cin­cin­na­ti, Ohio: The Stand­ard Pub­lish­ing Com­pa­ny, 1916) Music: Let Him Come In --http://www.hymntime.com
H. R. Christie

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