In the Shelter of the Rock

In the shelter of the rock, Jesus hide me (Hoffman)

Author: Elisha A. Hoffman
Tune: [In the shelter of the rock, Jesus hide me] (Straub)
Published in 7 hymnals

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: In the shelter of the rock, Jesus hide me (Hoffman)
Title: In the Shelter of the Rock
Author: Elisha A. Hoffman
Language: English
Refrain First Line: In the shelter of the rock let me rest
Copyright: Public Domain

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Beautiful Songs for Sunday Schools #d70

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Beautiful Songs; a new and choice collection of songs for the sunday school. Also, a responsive service for each month in the year #67

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Celestial Showers No. 1, a collection of gospel songs used in Rev. I. Toliver's Meetings #111

Crown of Glory #d50

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Royal Gems #117

The Morning Light, Enlarged #164a

The Morning Light #116a

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