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THE DYING BACKSLIDER

Appears in 1 hymnal Composer and/or Arranger: S. W. Tune Key: f sharp minor Incipit: 31233 17656 71165 Used With Text: The dying backslider
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["Go, bring me," said the dying fair]

Appears in 1 hymnal Composer and/or Arranger: Rev. Elisha A. Hoffman Incipit: 33143 32222 13233 Used With Text: For These My Soul Is Lost
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SELLING HEAVEN

Appears in 2 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: W. Hunter Incipit: 13211 21765 55112 Used With Text: Go, bring me, said the dying fair

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The dying backslider

Hymnal: The Minstrel of Zion #21 (1845) First Line: Go, bring me said the dying fair Lyrics: 1 "Go, bring me," said the dying fair, With anguish in her tone, "My costly robes and jewels here, Go, bring them ev'ry one: They strew'd them on her dying bed, Those robes of princely cost; "Father," with bitterness she said, "For these my soul was lost." 2 "Without glorious hopes I once was blest, Nor fear'd the gaping tomb; With heaven already in my breast, I look'd for heaven to come: I heard a Saviour's pardoning voice; My soul was fill'd with peace: Father, you bought me with these toys, I barter'd heaven for these. 3 "Take them--they are the price of blood, For these I lost my soul; For these, must bear the wrath of God, While ceaseless ages roll: Remember, when you look on these, Your daughter's fearful doom, That she, her pride and thine to please, Went quaking to the tomb. 4 "Go, bear them from my sight and touch, Your gifts I here restore; Keep them with care, they cost you much, They cost your daughter more: Look at them every rolling year, Upon my dying day, And drop for me the burning tear"-- She said, and sunk away. Tune Title: THE DYING BACKSLIDER
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Go, bring me [them], said the dying fair

Author: William Hunter Hymnal: The Chorus #H80 (1858)

Go, bring me [them], said the dying fair

Author: William Hunter Hymnal: The Golden Harp #d41 (1857)

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Anonymous

Person Name: Anon. Author of "For These My Soul Is Lost" in Songs of the Peacemaker In some hymnals, the editors noted that a hymn's author is unknown to them, and so this artificial "person" entry is used to reflect that fact. Obviously, the hymns attributed to "Author Unknown" "Unknown" or "Anonymous" could have been written by many people over a span of many centuries.

E. A. Hoffman

1839 - 1929 Person Name: Rev. Elisha A. Hoffman Composer of "["Go, bring me," said the dying fair]" in Songs of the Peacemaker 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) ==============

William Hunter

1811 - 1877 Person Name: W. Hunter Composer of "SELLING HEAVEN" in Songs of Joy and Gladness with Supplement Hunter, William, D.D, son of John Hunter, was born near Ballymoney, County Antrim, Ireland, May 26, 1811. He removed to America in 1817, and entered Madison College in 1830. For some time he edited the Conference Journal, and the Christian Advocate. In 1855 he was appointed Professor of Hebrew in Alleghany College: and subsequently Minister of the Methodist Episcopal Church, at Alliance, Stark Country, Ohio. He died in 1877. He edited Minstrel of Zion, 1845; Select Melodies, 1851; and Songs of Devotion, 1859. His hymns, over 125 in all, appeared in these works. Some of these have been translated into various Indian languages. The best known are :— 1. A home in heaven; what a joyful thought. Heaven a Home. From his Minstrel of Zion, 1845, into the Methodist Scholar's Hymn Book, London, 1870, &c. 2. Joyfully, joyfully onward I [we] move. Pressing towards Heaven. This hymn is usually dated 1843. It was given in his Minstrel of Zion, 1845, and Select Melodies, 1851, and his Songs of Devotion, 1859. It has attained to great popularity. Two forms of the hymn are current, the original, where the second stanza begins "Friends fondly cherished, have passed on before"; and the altered form, where it reads: “Teachers and Scholars have passed on before." Both texts are given in W. F. Stevenson's Hymns for Church & Home, 1873, Nos. 79, 80, c. 3. The [My] heavenly home is bright and fair. Pressing towards Heaven. From his Minstrel of Zion, 1845, into the Cottage Melodies, New York, 1859, and later collections. 4. The Great Physician now is near. Christ the Physician. From his Songs of Devotion, 1859 5. Who shall forbid our grateful[chastened]woe? This hymn, written in 1843, was published in his Minstrel of Zion, 1845, and in his Songs of Devotion, 1859. [ Rev. F. M. Bird, M.A.] --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)
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