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Will You Give Your Boy?
Author: Elisha A. Hoffman Appears in 5 hymnals First Line: A poor, fallen drunkard is dying today Refrain First Line: Shall it be your boy?
Will You Give Your Boy?
[A poor, fallen drunkard is dying today]
Appears in 3 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Rev. Elisha A. Hoffman Incipit: 13333 32333 54333 Used With Text: Will You Give Your Boy?
[A poor, fallen drunkard is dying today]
Will You Give Your Boy?
Author: E. A. H. Hymnal: Songs of Matchless Love #90 (1904) First Line: A poor, fallen drunkard is dying Refrain First Line: Shall it be your boy? Lyrics: 1 A poor, fallen drunkard is dying today,
And reaching the end of his race;
No more will he enter the gilded saloon;
There is wanted a boy for his place.
Shall it be your boy?
Will you give your boy,
In his sweet beauty and grace?
Will you offer you child, so innocent, mild,
To take the dead drunkard’s place?
2 A gambler is slain in a revel and brawl,
And rests in death’s folded embrace;
No more will he drink of the pleasures of sin;
There is wanted a boy for his place.
Shall it be your boy?
Will you give your boy,
In his sweet beauty and grace?
Will you offer you child, so innocent, mild,
To take the dead gambler’s place?
3 A scoffer goes down in his sin to the grace,
Rejecting God’s mercy and grace;
No more will he curse the dear word of the Lord;
There is wanted a boy for his place.
Shall it be your boy?
Will you give your boy,
In his sweet beauty and grace?
Will you offer you child, so innocent, mild,
To take the dead scoffer’s place?
4 The worldling is startled the summons to hear:
“Now endeth the day of thy grace;”
He passes away, but how many there are
Who are ready to stand in his place?
Shall it be your boy?
Will you give your boy,
In his sweet beauty and grace?
Will you offer you child, so innocent, mild,
To take the dead worldling’s place? Tune Title: [A poor, fallen drunkard is dying today]
Will You Give Your Boy?
Will You Give Your Boy?
Author: E. A. H. Hymnal: Songs of the New Crusade #50 (1916) First Line: A poor, fallen drunkard is dying today Refrain First Line: Shall it be your boy? Topics: Temperance Languages: English Tune Title: [A poor, fallen drunkard is dying today]
Will You Give Your Boy?
Will You Give Your Boy?
Author: E. A. H. Hymnal: Light and Life Songs #185 (1904) First Line: A poor, fallen drunkard is dying today Refrain First Line: Shall it be your boy Languages: English Tune Title: [A poor, fallen drunkard is dying today]
Will You Give Your Boy?
E. A. Hoffman
1839 - 1929 Person Name: E. A. H. Author of "Will You Give Your Boy?" in Songs of Matchless Love 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
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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)
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E. A. Hoffman
