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[The sinner says, "Tomorrow"]

Appears in 2 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: J. B. Herbert Used With Text: The Day of Mercy

Author: Rev. E. A. Hoffman Appears in 3 hymnals First Line: The sinner says, "Tomorrow" Refrain First Line: Hast'ning away, hast'ning away Used With Tune: [The sinner says, "Tomorrow"]

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The Day of Mercy

Author: Rev. E. A. Hoffman Hymnal: Y.M.C.A. Gospel Songs #14 (1890) First Line: The sinner says: "Tomorrow" Refrain First Line: Hast'ning away, hast'ning away Languages: English Tune Title: [The sinner says: "Tomorrow"]

The Day of Mercy

Author: Rev. E. A. Hoffman Hymnal: Rodeheaver Collection for Male Voices #80 (1916) First Line: The sinner says, "Tomorrow" Refrain First Line: Hast'ning away, hast'ning away Languages: English Tune Title: [The sinner says, "Tomorrow"]

People

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J. B. Herbert

1852 - 1927 Composer of "[The sinner says, "Tomorrow"]" in Rodeheaver Collection for Male Voices

E. A. Hoffman

1839 - 1929 Person Name: Rev. E. A. Hoffman Author of "The Day of Mercy" in Rodeheaver Collection for Male Voices 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) ==============