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The Life Boat

Author: Elisha A. Hoffman Appears in 8 hymnals First Line: Wake sinner, wake, there's no time for sleep Refrain First Line: Come into the life boat

[Wake sinner, wake! there's no time for sleep]

Appears in 2 hymnals Incipit: 35311 61111 55613 Used With Text: The Life-Boat

[Wake, sinner, wake, there's no time for sleep]

Appears in 2 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Charlie D. Tillman Incipit: 33216 11165 55112 Used With Text: The Life-boat

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Author: E. A. Hoffman Hymnal: Gems of Gospel Song #27 (1881) First Line: Wake, sinner, wake! there's no time now for sleep Refrain First Line: Come into the life-boat Languages: English Tune Title: [Wake, sinner, wake! there's no time now for sleep]

The Life-Boat

Author: E. A. Hoffman Hymnal: Quartette #372 (1889) First Line: Wake sinner, wake! there's no time for sleep Refrain First Line: Come into the Life-Boat! Languages: English Tune Title: [Wake sinner, wake! there's no time for sleep]

The Life-boat

Hymnal: The Revival #114 (1890) First Line: Wake, sinner, wake, there's no time for sleep Refrain First Line: Come into the life-boat Languages: English Tune Title: [Wake, sinner, wake, there's no time for sleep]

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E. A. Hoffman

1839 - 1929 Author of "The Life-Boat" in Quartette 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) ==============

Charlie D. Tillman

1861 - 1943 Composer of "[Wake, sinner, wake, there's no time for sleep]" in The Revival Tillman, Charles "Charlie" Davis. (Tallahassee, Talapoosa County, Alabama, March 20, 1861--1943). Married Anna Killingsworth (Dec. 24, 1889); four daughters, one son (d.1910). --Keith C. Clark, DNAH Archives