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Will You Give Your Boy?

Author: Elisha A. Hoffman Appears in 5 hymnals Hymnal Title: Calvin Hymnary Project First Line: A poor, fallen drunkard is dying today Refrain First Line: Shall it be your boy?

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[A poor, fallen drunkard is dying today]

Appears in 3 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Rev. Elisha A. Hoffman Hymnal Title: Songs of Matchless Love Incipit: 13333 32333 54333 Used With Text: Will You Give Your Boy?

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Will you give your boy

Author: Elisha A. Hoffman; Elisha Albright Hoffman Hymnal: A Messenger for Jesus #d6 (1913) Hymnal Title: A Messenger for Jesus First Line: A poor, fallen drunkard is dying Refrain First Line: Will it be your boy Languages: English

Will you give your boy

Author: Elisha A. Hoffman; Elisha Albright Hoffman Hymnal: Gospel Voices No.3 #d3 (1902) Hymnal Title: Gospel Voices No.3 First Line: A poor, fallen drunkard is dying Refrain First Line: Shall it be your boy Languages: English
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Will You Give Your Boy?

Author: E. A. H. Hymnal: Light and Life Songs #185 (1904) Hymnal Title: Light and Life Songs 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]

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E. A. Hoffman

1839 - 1929 Person Name: E. A. H. Hymnal Title: Songs of Matchless Love 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 ============ 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) ==============