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Outshine the Sun

Author: E. A. Hoffman Appears in 11 hymnals Hymnal Title: Calvin Hymnary Project First Line: If you will come to Jesus, you will outshine the sun

[If you will come to Jesus, you will outshine the sun]

Appears in 6 hymnals Hymnal Title: Songs for the King's Business Incipit: 55332 32123 32171 Used With Text: Outshine the Sun

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Published text-tune combinations (hymns) from specific hymnals

Outshine the sun

Hymnal: Best Revival Songs #d51 (1924) Hymnal Title: Best Revival Songs First Line: If you will come to Jesus, you will outshine the sun Languages: English

Outshine the sun

Hymnal: Christian Hymns III #d160 (1966) Hymnal Title: Christian Hymns III First Line: If you will come to Jesus, you will outshine the sun Languages: English

Outshine the Sun

Hymnal: Christian Hymns #410 (1948) Hymnal Title: Christian Hymns First Line: If you will come to Jesus Tune Title: [If you will come to Jesus]

1839 - 1929 Hymnal Title: Calvin Hymnary Project Author of "Outshine the Sun" 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) ==============