When was leaning on the everlasting arms written

His pupils could read music, and they could sing - for he had taught them. Then why not write them a song of comfort instead of a letter? Quickly he wrote the chorus: Leaning, leaning, safe and secure from all alarms, Leaning, leaning, leaning on the everlasting arms. Professor Showalter sent the chorus off to the Rev.

Elisha Hoffman in Pennsylvania, and Hoffman - himself the author of over 2, hymns, very soon produced three beautiful verses. When Showalter received Hoffman's finished work he wrote the music for it and another great hymn was born. We don't have any record of what effect the song message had on those for whom it was written but we do know it has been a great blessing to thousands ever since.

What have I to dread, what have I to fear, Leaning on the everlasting arms? Deuteronomy - The eternal God is thy refuge, and underneath are the everlasting arms: and he shall thrust out the enemy from before thee; and shall say, Destroy them.

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There are two tunes for "I am but a Stranger Here. Edmund is the tune I'm used to and the better tune. No one is listed for the music or tune for I am but a Stranger Here. Elisha Hoffman's song "Are you washed in the Blood" was going through my mind earlier this evening. Hymns are such a comfort in the times of the death of a loved one. I think in old age they help also to pass the time spiritually. Our Collective Christian Hymn Book is a forgotten resource of encouragement and spirituality.

I'm suggesting hymns as devotions or for devotional reading. Using our Christian hymns as devotionals is under-appreciated.

So often hymns , like the story described here behind "Leaning on the Everlasting Arms" are from tragedies. Isn't it amazing what God can birth from tragedy? Is it even necessary to have a tragedy to birth a great hymn? It seems so common. To answer KC's question the lower picture is Elisha Hoffman. They are probably going to arrest me for elder abuse for my mother. Keep praying that I get out of Satan's trap. But after thinking on the verse even more he thought that those words would be a great theme for a hymn.

He immediately wrote the words for the refrain and music for the hymn we are about to sing. But he needed help for with the stanzas so he went to see Elisha Hoffman author of over gospel hymns. Hoffman provided the stanzas and Showalter the refrain and music to this hymn. What a fellowship, what a joy divine,.