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Hymns - Elisha Hoffman

October 19, 2023

David Cloud, Way of Life Literature, P.O. Box 610368, Port Huron, MI 48061
866-295-4143, fbns@wayoflife.org

Elisha Albright Hoffman (1839-1929) was a Presbyterian minister who pastored Congregational and Presbyterian churches and worked in evangelistic organizations such as the Bethel Home for Sailors and Seamen. He spent much of his time working with the poor and downtrodden. His ministry lasted more than 60 years, as did that of his father before him. He had “remarkable physical and mental vigor” until his death at age 90.

The only musical education he received was in the home and church. When Hoffman was growing up, the family sang one or two hymns morning and evening for family devotions. “At an early age, the children became familiar with these hymns and learned to love them and to feel their hallowing and refining power. Their lives were marvelously influenced by this little service of song in the home. A taste for sacred music was created and developed, and song became as natural a function of the soul a

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Elisha Hoffman

Musical artist

Elisha Albright (E. A.) Hoffman (May 7, 1839 – November 25, 1929)[1] was a Presbyterian minister, composer of over 2,000 hymns and editor of over 50 song books. The son of an Evangelical minister, Hoffman grew up singing sacred hymns both in church and in the home with his parents.[2] After completing high school, Hoffman furthered his education at Union Seminary in New Berlin, Pennsylvania, and was subsequently ordained as a Presbyterian minister in 1873.[2]

Following his seminary education, Hoffman began work with the publishing branch of the Evangelical Association in Cleveland, Ohio.[3] After serving in this position for 11 years, Hoffman held several pastoral positions in the midwest. He pastored churches in both Cleveland and Grafton, Ohio, in the 1880s; moved to Benton Harbor, Michigan, and the First Presbyterian Church in the mid-1890s; and finished his ministry in Cabery, Illinois from 1911-22.[4] Hoffman died in 1929 in Chicago, Illinois, and is buried there in Oak Woods Cemetery.[

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Elisha A. Hoffman: Pastor and Gospel Hymn Writer

by Jacob Henry Hall; edited by Stephen Ross

The subject of this sketch, Elisha A. Hoffman, was born in Orwigsburg, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania [United States], on the seventh day of May in the year of our Lord 1839. His parents, Francis A. and Rebecca A. Hoffman, were Pennsylvania Germans. His father was a minister of the Gospel in the Evangelical Association, and rendered over sixty years of service in preaching the Word.

Elisha was educated in the public schools of Philadelphia, the city of Brotherly Love, and graduated in the scientific course from the Central High School. Afterwards he took up the classics and completed a classical course in Union Seminary of the Evangelical Association. For eleven years he was connected with the Association's publishing house in Cleveland, Ohio.

His musical education was limited. He is not a graduate of any School of Music, but he is a natural musician. All the musical knowledge he has was gained by personal application. Mr. Hoffman's first impressions of music came from hearing the voi

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