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[Go labor in the harvest field]

Appears in 2 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Elisha A. Hoffman Incipit: 55112 34533 34325

Author: Elisha A. Hoffman Appears in 2 hymnals First Line: Go labor in the harvest field Lyrics: 1 Go labor in the harvest field, Bringing the golden sheaves; Return with an abundant yield, Bringing the golden sheaves. Refrain: Bringing the golden sheaves, Bringing the golden sheaves, Go labor in the harvest field, Bringing the golden sheaves. 2 Think not of ease, but labor on, Bringing the golden sheaves; And toil till setting of the sun, Bringing the golden sheaves. [Refrain] 3 The evening calls the reapers home, Bringing the golden sheaves; And bearing precious fruit they come, Bringing the golden sheaves. [Refrain] 4 The saints will gather by and by, Bringing the golden sheaves; With Jesus in the home on high, Bringing the golden sheaves. [Refrain] Used With Tune: [Go labor in the harvest field]

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Bringing the Golden Sheaves

Author: Elisha A. Hoffman Hymnal: Triumphant Songs No.2 #193 (1889) First Line: Go labor in the harvest field Lyrics: 1 Go labor in the harvest field, Bringing the golden sheaves; Return with an abundant yield, Bringing the golden sheaves. Refrain: Bringing the golden sheaves, Bringing the golden sheaves, Go labor in the harvest field, Bringing the golden sheaves. 2 Think not of ease, but labor on, Bringing the golden sheaves; And toil till setting of the sun, Bringing the golden sheaves. [Refrain] 3 The evening calls the reapers home, Bringing the golden sheaves; And bearing precious fruit they come, Bringing the golden sheaves. [Refrain] 4 The saints will gather by and by, Bringing the golden sheaves; With Jesus in the home on high, Bringing the golden sheaves. [Refrain] Tune Title: [Go labor in the harvest field]

Bringing the Golden Sheaves

Author: Elisha A. Hoffman Hymnal: Triumphant Songs Nos. 1 and 2 Combined #394 (1890) First Line: Go labor in the harvest field Languages: English Tune Title: [Go labor in the harvest field]

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E. A. Hoffman

1839 - 1929 Person Name: Elisha A. Hoffman Author of "Bringing the Golden Sheaves" in Triumphant Songs No.2 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) ==============