What Says The Spirit To Thee?

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In the calmness of night, when thou art alone

Author: E. A. Hoffman
Tune: [In the calmness of night, when thou art alone]
Published in 1 hymnal

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1 In the calmness of night, when thou art alone,
And all is as silent as death,
When there echoes naught but the wind's low moan,
And the sound of thy feeble breath —

Chorus:
What then says the voice, the still, small voice,
That whispereth tenderly?
What then? What then, O mortal,
Says the Spirit of God to thee?

2 In the twilight of day, when buried in thought,
And gleams of eternity come,
And thy mind is drawn to the scene of death,
And to think of thy future home — [Chorus]

3 In the quiet of death when, nearing the grave,
Thy heart-pulse beats softly and low,
And the angel comes to announce thy end,
And to bid thee prepare to go — [Chorus]

Source: The Evergreen: songs for the Sunday school, sanctuary and home circle #47

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Author: E. A. Hoffman

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… Go to person page >

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First Line:	In the calmness of night, when thou art alone
Title:	What Says The Spirit To Thee?
Author:	E. A. Hoffman
Language:	English
Refrain First Line:	What then says the voice, the still, small voice
Copyright:	Public Domain