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Our Sunday school is ended

Author: Elisha A. Hoffman Appears in 2 hymnals

[Our Sunday school is ended]

Appears in 1 hymnal Composer and/or Arranger: Ira Orwig Hoffman Used With Text: Good Bye

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Author: Rev. Elisha A. Hoffman Hymnal: Celestial Showers No. 1, a collection of gospel songs used in Rev. I. Toliver's Meetings #134 (1895) First Line: Our Sunday school is ended Languages: English Tune Title: [Our Sunday school is ended]

Our Sunday school is ended

Author: Elisha A. Hoffman; Elisha Albright Hoffman Hymnal: Bells of Heaven #d306 (1895) Languages: English

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E. A. Hoffman

1839 - 1929 Person Name: Rev. Elisha A. Hoffman Author of "Good Bye" in Celestial Showers No. 1, a collection of gospel songs used in Rev. I. Toliver's Meetings 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) ==============

Ira O. Hoffman

1867 - 1943 Person Name: Ira Orwig Hoffman Composer of "[Our Sunday school is ended]" in Celestial Showers No. 1, a collection of gospel songs used in Rev. I. Toliver's Meetings Born: Circa 1867, Pennsylvania. Died: May 4, 1943, Cleveland, Ohio. Ira’s father was song writer Elisha Hoffman. His middle name was his mother’s maiden name. At age nine, he is said to have written the music for his father’s song "The Little Pilgrim;" as an adult, he was a composer, arranger, and music editor. His works include: Favorite Gospel Songs: A Tune Boo (music editor) (Jersey City, New Jersey: J. N. Davis, 1894) --www.hymntime.com/tch