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O he is the Friend of sinners

Author: Elisha A. Hoffman; Elisha Albright Hoffman Appears in 2 hymnals Hymnal Title: Song Service and Revival First Line: What a Savior is this Jesus

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[What a Saviour is this Jesus]

Appears in 1 hymnal Composer and/or Arranger: W. J. Jones Hymnal Title: New Onward and Upward Used With Text: What a Saviour is this Jesus

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What a Saviour is this Jesus

Author: Rev. Elisha A. Hoffman Hymnal: New Onward and Upward #18 (1909) Hymnal Title: New Onward and Upward Refrain First Line: O He is the Friend of sinners Languages: English Tune Title: [What a Saviour is this Jesus]

O he is the Friend of sinners

Author: Elisha A. Hoffman; Elisha Albright Hoffman Hymnal: Song Service and Revival #d124 (1908) Hymnal Title: Song Service and Revival First Line: What a Savior is this Jesus

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E. A. Hoffman

1839 - 1929 Person Name: Rev. Elisha A. Hoffman Hymnal Title: New Onward and Upward Author of "What a Saviour is this Jesus" in New Onward and Upward 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) ==============

W. J. Jones

Hymnal Title: New Onward and Upward Composer of "[What a Saviour is this Jesus]" in New Onward and Upward