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[When life is slowly waning]

Appears in 2 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: J. H. Rosecrans Incipit: 34513 43213 25456 Used With Text: O Soul, What Then?

Author: E. A. Hoffman Appears in 3 hymnals First Line: When life is slowly waning Refrain First Line: What then, what then, O trembling soul, what then? Used With Tune: [When life is slowly waning]

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O Soul, What Then?

Author: E. A. Hoffman Hymnal: Songs of Gratitude #62 (1877) First Line: When life is slowly waning Refrain First Line: What then, what then, O trembling soul, what then? Languages: English Tune Title: [When life is slowly waning]

O Soul, What Then?

Author: E. A. Hoffman Hymnal: Songs of Gratitude #62 (1880) First Line: When life is slowly waning Refrain First Line: What then, what then, O trembling soul, what then? Languages: English Tune Title: [When life is slowly waning]

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E. A. Hoffman

1839 - 1929 Author of "O Soul, What Then?" in Songs of Gratitude 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) ==============

J. H. Rosecrans

1845 - 1926 Composer of "[When life is slowly waning]" in Songs of Gratitude James Holmes Rosecrans studied at the Baxter University of Music in Friendship, New York. After teaching for two years, he joined the Fillmore Brothers Music House in Cincinnati, Ohio. As of 1880, he was teaching music in Douglas County, Colorado. In 1884, was an evangelist in California, and later was associated with evangelistic efforts in Texas, and taught music and Bible at Carlton College in Bonham, Texas. He published over 20 music collections in his lifetime. © The Cyber Hymnal™ (www.hymntime.com/tch)