Elisha Albright Hoffman

Born:  May 7, 1839, Orwigsburg, Pennsylvania.

Died:  November 25, 1929, Chicago, Illinois.

Buried: Oak Woods Cemetery, Chicago, Illinois

    A minister’s son, Hoffman attended Union Seminary in New Berlin, Pennsylvania, and was ordained in 1868. Afterward, he worked with the Evangelical Association’s publishing arm in Cleveland, Ohio for 11 years. He pastored in Cleveland and Grafton, Ohio, in the 1880s; at the First Presbyterian Church in Benton Harbor, Michigan, around the turn of the century; and in Cabery, Illinois (1911-1922). In his lifetime, he wrote over 2,000 Gospel songs. The 50 song books he edited include:

• The Evergreen, 1873
• Spiritual Songs for Gospel Meetings and the Sunday School, 1878
• Pentecostal Hymns No. 1 (Chicago, Illinois: Hope Publishing Company, 1894)

Hymns

1. Are You Washed in the Blood?
2. Down at the Cross
3. Down Low at My Redeemer’s Feet
4. Draw Me Closer, Lord, to Thee
5. Enough for Me
6. Give Him the Glory
7. I Must Tell Jesus
8. Is It Not Wonderful?
9. Is Thy Heart Right with God?
10. Is Your All on the Altar?
11. It Is Mine
12. Leaning on the Everlasting Arms
13. Lord I am Fondly, Earnestly Longing
14. Lord Is Coming By and By, The
15. No Other Friend Like Jesus
16. Over the Rolling Sea
17. Power for Service
18. Speed the Light
19. What a Wonderful Savior!
20. Where Will You Spend Eternity?
21. Would You Know Why I Love Jesus?