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Jesus Saves

Author: Elisha A. Hoffman Appears in 6 hymnals First Line: Flash the news over land and ocean

[Flash the news o'er land and ocean]

Appears in 1 hymnal Composer and/or Arranger: Rev. Elisha A. Hoffman Incipit: 34556 53512 32153 Used With Text: Jesus Saves

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Author: E. A. H. Hymnal: Hymns of the Christian Life No. 2 #294 (1897) First Line: Flash the news o'er land and ocean Languages: English Tune Title: [Flash the news o'er land and ocean]

Flash the news o'er land and ocean

Author: Elisha A. Hoffman; Elisha Albright Hoffman Hymnal: Selections from Warrior Songs for the White Cavalry, and Other Hymns. Special ed. for Campaign Use #d26 (1899)

Jesus saves

Author: Elisha A. Hoffman; Elisha Albright Hoffman Hymnal: Warrior Songs for the White Cavalry #d19 (1897) First Line: Flash the news o'er land and ocean

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E. A. Hoffman

1839 - 1929 Person Name: Elisha A. Hoffman Author of "Jesus Saves" 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) ==============