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[Have you heard that Christ is coming]

Appears in 3 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: W. G. Wolfe Tune Key: G Major Incipit: 12333 22113 54565 Used With Text: Christ Is Coming

Christ Is Coming

Author: Elisha A. Hoffman Appears in 3 hymnals First Line: Have you heard that Christ is coming Used With Tune: [Have you heard that Christ is coming]

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Author: Elisha A. Hoffman Hymnal: Greater Christian Hymns #8 (1931) First Line: Have you heard that Christ is coming Languages: English Tune Title: [Have you heard that Christ is coming]

Christ Is Coming

Author: Elisha A. Hoffman Hymnal: Gospel Praise #105 (1900) First Line: Have you heard that Christ is coming Refrain First Line: He is coming by and by Languages: English Tune Title: [Have you heard that Christ is coming]

Christ Is Coming

Author: Elisha A. Hoffman Hymnal: The Gospel Message in Song (Revised and Enlarged) #172 (1910) First Line: Have you heard that Christ is coming, He is coming by and by Refrain First Line: He is coming by and by Languages: English Tune Title: [Have you heard that Christ is coming, He is coming by and by]

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E. A. Hoffman

1839 - 1929 Person Name: Elisha A. Hoffman Author of "Christ Is Coming" in Greater Christian Hymns 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) ==============