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Author: Elisha A. Hoffman Appears in 2 hymnals Hymnal Title: Calvin Hymnary Project First Line: Love of the Savior, tender and precious Refrain First Line: Wonderful love, the love of the Savior

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[Love of the Saviour, tender and precious]

Appears in 2 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: J. H. T. Hymnal Title: The Beacon Light Incipit: 53651 31431 17651 Used With Text: Wonderful Love

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Wonderful Love

Author: E. A. H. Hymnal: The Beacon Light #40 (1881) Hymnal Title: The Beacon Light First Line: Love of the Saviour, tender and precious Refrain First Line: Wonderful love, the love of the Saviour Languages: English Tune Title: [Love of the Saviour, tender and precious]

Wonderful love, the love of the Savior

Author: Elisha A. Hoffman; Elisha Albright Hoffman Hymnal: Work and Worship #d72 (1886) Hymnal Title: Work and Worship First Line: Love of the Savior

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J. H. Tenney

1840 - 1918 Person Name: J. H. T. Hymnal Title: The Beacon Light Composer of "[Love of the Saviour, tender and precious]" in The Beacon Light John Harrison Tenney, 1840-1918 Born: November 22, 1840, Rowley, Massachusetts. Born just after the presidential campaign of "Tippecanoe and Tyler, too," Tenney was named after American president William Henry Harrison. A deacon in the Congregational Church in Linebrook, Massachusetts, he edited or was associate editor of over 30 books, and contributed to hundreds more. His works include: American Male Choir Temperance Jewels, with Elisha Hoffman (Boston, Massachusetts: Oliver Ditson & Company, 1879) Bells of Victory, with Elisha Hoffman (Boston, Massachusetts: Oliver Ditson & Company, 1888) Gems of Gospel Song Golden Sunbeams Sharon’s Dewy Rose Songs of Faith Shining Light Songs of Joy Sparkling and Bright Spiritual Songs, Nos. 1 and 2 Sweet Fields of Eden The Beacon Light The Singing School Banner The Anthem Offering The American Anthem Book The Crown of Praise Sources-- Hall, pp. 219-22 Music-- Asilomar Bogotá Beyond the Swelling Flood Cancún Come to Jesus Ever Will I Pray Hallowed Hour of Prayer Jesus Is Passing This Way Jubilate! My Anchor Is Holding Nothing Between Onward Christian Soldiers Sabbath Bell San Francisco We’ll Never Say Goodbye Where Will You Spend Eternity? --www.hymntime.com/tch

E. A. Hoffman

1839 - 1929 Person Name: Elisha A. Hoffman Hymnal Title: Work and Worship Author of "Wonderful love, the love of the Savior" in Work and Worship 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) ==============