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[Come to Jesus, weary soul]

Appears in 2 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Elisha Albright Hoffman Tune Key: A Flat Major Incipit: 51332 43332 23435 Used With Text: Come to Jesus, Weary Soul

Author: E. A. H. Appears in 2 hymnals Refrain First Line: Has he not promised your sins to forgive? Lyrics: 1 Come to Jesus, weary soul, He is waiting to forgive; Do you doubt his love and grace? Can you not his word believe? Refrain: Has he not promised your sins to forgive? Is he not faithful and true? Christ never turned a poor sinner away; Lo! there is mercy for you. 2 Come to Jesus, and for sin There a perfect cleansing find; He is full of truth and grace, He is merciful and kind. [Refrain] 3 Come to Jesus, burdened one, While he is so very nigh; Cast away your doubts and fears, For he now is passing by. [Refrain] Used With Tune: [Come to Jesus, weary soul]

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Come to Jesus, Weary Soul

Author: E. A. H. Hymnal: Triumphant Songs No.1 #54 (1887) Refrain First Line: Has he not promised your sins to forgive? Lyrics: 1 Come to Jesus, weary soul, He is waiting to forgive; Do you doubt his love and grace? Can you not his word believe? Refrain: Has he not promised your sins to forgive? Is he not faithful and true? Christ never turned a poor sinner away; Lo! there is mercy for you. 2 Come to Jesus, and for sin There a perfect cleansing find; He is full of truth and grace, He is merciful and kind. [Refrain] 3 Come to Jesus, burdened one, While he is so very nigh; Cast away your doubts and fears, For he now is passing by. [Refrain] Languages: English Tune Title: [Come to Jesus, weary soul]

Come to Jesus, Weary Soul

Author: E. A. H. Hymnal: Triumphant Songs Nos. 1 and 2 Combined #63 (1890) Refrain First Line: Has he not promised your sins to forgive? Languages: English Tune Title: [Come to Jesus, weary soul]

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E. A. Hoffman

1839 - 1929 Person Name: E. A. H. Author of "Come to Jesus, Weary Soul" in Triumphant Songs No.1 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) ==============