Coming Home to Jesus

Praise the Lord! repentant sinners are returning to the fold

Author: Elisha A. Hoffman
Tune: [Praise the Lord! repentant sinners are returning to the fold]
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Author: Elisha A. Hoffman

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… Go to person page >

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First Line: Praise the Lord! repentant sinners are returning to the fold
Title: Coming Home to Jesus
Author: Elisha A. Hoffman
Language: English
Refrain First Line: They are coming home to Jesus
Copyright: Public Domain

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Sacred Chimes #204

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