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[Why are you waiting brother?]

Appears in 2 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: E. A. Hoffman Incipit: 15566 65155 61715

Why Are You Waiting?

Author: E. A. H. Appears in 2 hymnals First Line: Why are you waiting brother? Used With Tune: [Why are you waiting brother?]

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Why Are You Waiting?

Author: E. A. H. Hymnal: Gospel Songs of Grace and Glory #25 (1896) First Line: Why are you waiting brother? Languages: English Tune Title: [Why are you waiting brother?]

Why Are You Waiting?

Author: E. A. H. Hymnal: Pentecostal Hymns No. 1 #144 (1894) First Line: Why are you waiting brother? Languages: English Tune Title: [Why are you waiting brother?]

1839 - 1929 Person Name: E. A. H. Author of "Why Are You Waiting?" in Gospel Songs of Grace and Glory 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) ==============