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[Speed the light]

Appears in 17 hymnals Incipit: 54351 23122 67123 Used With Text: 千萬人遠在深深海洋彼岸, (Speed the light)

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要速發光 (To the millions )

Appears in 30 hymnals Used With Tune: [To the millions ]

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Speed the Light

Author: Elisha A. Hoffman Hymnal: The Cyber Hymnal #6278 First Line: To the millions living o'er the deep, deep sea Refrain First Line: Speed the light, the bless'd Gospel light Lyrics: 1. To the millions living o’er the deep, deep sea Speed the light, speed the light; To their cry of pity dare we heedless be? Speed the light, O speed the light. Refrain Speed the light, the blessèd Gospel light, To the lands which are in gloom and night; Souls are waiting, and the fields are white, Speed the light, O speed the light. 2. There in anguish millions for the Gospel wait, Speed the light, speed the light; Go and seek their rescue ere it is too late, Speed the light, O speed the light. [Refrain] 3. Jesus bids us bear to them the Gospel news, Speed the light, speed the light; Can the souls He ransomed His request refuse? Speed the light, O speed the light. [Refrain] 4. We will go, and in our blessèd master’s name Speed the light, speed the light; We will His salvation and His love proclaim, Speed the light, O speed the light. [Refrain] Languages: English Tune Title: [To the millions living o'er the deep, deep sea]
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Speed the Light

Author: E. A. H.; Elisha Albright Hoffman Hymnal: Junior Praises #50 (1901) First Line: To the millions living o'er the deep, deep sea Refrain First Line: Speed the light, the blessed Gospel light Languages: English Tune Title: [To the millions living o'er the deep, deep sea]

Speed the Light

Author: E. A. H. Hymnal: The Missionary Message in Song #4 (1953) First Line: To the millions living o'er the deep, deep sea Refrain First Line: Speed the light, the blessed Gospel light Languages: English Tune Title: [To the millions living o'er the deep, deep sea]

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E. A. Hoffman

1839 - 1929 Person Name: Elisha A. Hoffman Author of "Speed the Light" in The Cyber Hymnal 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) ==============
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