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Author: Rev. Elisha A. Hoffman Appears in 6 hymnals First Line: Be kind to the erring whose feet are astray Refrain First Line: Some mother's child, some mother's child Used With Tune: [Be kind to the erring whose feet are astray]

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[Be kind to the erring whose feet are astray]

Appears in 2 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: A. F. Myers Incipit: 55671 11176 53333 Used With Text: Some Mother's Child

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Some Mother's Child

Author: Rev. Elisha A. Hoffman Hymnal: Bells of Heaven #175 (1903) First Line: Be kind to the erring whose feet are astray Refrain First Line: Some mother's child, some mother's child Languages: English Tune Title: [Be kind to the erring whose feet are astray]

Some Mother's Child

Author: Rev. Elisha A. Hoffman Hymnal: Bells of Heaven #d29 (1898) First Line: Be kind to the erring whose feet are astray Refrain First Line: Some mother's child, some mother's child Languages: English

Some Mother's Child

Author: Rev. Elisha A. Hoffman Hymnal: Bells of Heaven #d32 (1895) First Line: Be kind to the erring whose feet are astray Refrain First Line: Some mother's child, some mother's child Languages: English

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E. A. Hoffman

1839 - 1929 Person Name: Rev. Elisha A. Hoffman Author of "Some Mother's Child" in The Search Light 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) ==============

A. F. Myers

Composer of "[Some Mother's Child] " in The Search Light Augustus (Gus) Franklin Myers USA 1850-1902. Born at Ashland, OH, he was a music composer and publisher. He may have taught music, as his title of ‘Professor’, is noted by one source. His song books include: “The life line”, “The search light” (1894), “The seed sower” (1897). He wrote many lyrics and tunes. He died at Toledo, OH. John Perry