While the Days are Passing By

There are lives our love may brighten, While the days are passing by

Author: Elisha A. Hoffman
Tune: [There are lives our love may brighten]
Published in 1 hymnal

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: There are lives our love may brighten, While the days are passing by
Title: While the Days are Passing By
Author: Elisha A. Hoffman
Language: English
Refrain First Line: Passing by, passing by
Copyright: Public Domain

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Pentecostal Hymns No. 2 #82

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