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[What a wonderful Savior is Jesus to me]

Appears in 2 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Arthur W. Nelson Incipit: 54655 32117 77765

Author: Rev. E. A. Hoffman Appears in 4 hymnals First Line: What a wonderful Saviour is Jesus to me Refrain First Line: Can such love and such grace Lyrics: 1 What a wonderful Saviour is Jesus to me, To redeem me and save me from sin, To transform my dark heart to a temple of grace, And to take up His dwelling therein! Chorus: Can such love and such grace Be for me, even me? Yes, He followed me on till my soul He had won, And He daily grows dearer to me. 2 I had wandered afar from the fold of His love, But was still in the reach of His grace; For He followed me on till my soul He had won, And I live in the smiles of His face. [Chorus] 3 On my pathway there shines the bright sunshine of heav’n; In my soul is God’s wonderful peace; Oh, I never had known that a poor human heart Could be happy and blessed as this! [Chorus] Used With Tune: [What a wonderful Saviour is Jesus to me]

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Such Love and Grace

Author: Rev. E. A. Hoffman Hymnal: Melodies of Salvation #199 (1901) First Line: What a wonderful Saviour is Jesus to me Refrain First Line: Can such love and such grace Lyrics: 1 What a wonderful Saviour is Jesus to me, To redeem me and save me from sin, To transform my dark heart to a temple of grace, And to take up His dwelling therein! Chorus: Can such love and such grace Be for me, even me? Yes, He followed me on till my soul He had won, And He daily grows dearer to me. 2 I had wandered afar from the fold of His love, But was still in the reach of His grace; For He followed me on till my soul He had won, And I live in the smiles of His face. [Chorus] 3 On my pathway there shines the bright sunshine of heav’n; In my soul is God’s wonderful peace; Oh, I never had known that a poor human heart Could be happy and blessed as this! [Chorus] Languages: English Tune Title: [What a wonderful Saviour is Jesus to me]

Such Love and Grace

Author: Rev. E. A. Hoffman Hymnal: Melodies of Salvation #199 (1900) First Line: What a wonderful Saviour is Jesus to me Refrain First Line: Can such love and such grace Languages: English Tune Title: [What a wonderful Saviour is Jesus to me]

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E. A. Hoffman

1839 - 1929 Person Name: Rev. E. A. Hoffman Author of "Such Love and Grace" in Melodies of Salvation 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) ==============