Alfred Henry Ackley

Born:  January 21, 1887, Spring Hill, Pennsylvania.
He was brother to Bentley Ackley.

Died:  July 3, 1960, Whittier, California.

    Ackley received musical training from his father, in New York City and at the Royal Academy of Music in London, and became a great cello player. After graduating from Westminster Theological Seminary in Maryland, he was ordained a Presbyterian minister in 1914, and pastored in Wilkes-Barre and Elmhurst, Pensylvania, and in Escondido, California. For a few years he worked with evangelist Billy Sunday, and also served as assistant pastor of Shadyside Presbyterian Church in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He wrote some 1,500 religious and secular songs, and was associated with the Rodeheaver Music Company. John Brown University in Siloam Springs, Arkansas, awarded him an honorary Doctor of Sacred Music degree.

Hymns

1. As a Tree Beside the Water
2. Back to the Faith of My Childhood (© 1925)
3. Christ We Forget, The (© 1928)
4. God Has Not Forgotten (© 1928)
5. He Will Not Let Me Fall
6. He Lives (© 1933)
7. I Am Coming Home
8. I Shall Dwell Forever There
9. In the Service of the King
10. Jesus Is the Joy of Living (© 1939)
11. Meet Him at the Cross (© 1936)
12. Pardoning Grace
13. Repent! 'Tis the Voice of Jesus
14. Take Up Thy Cross
15. There Shall Be No Tears (© 1938)
16. There’s a New Day Dawning (1923)
17. Somebody Knows
18. When I Have Finished My Pilgrimage Here
19. When the World Forgets (© 1925)
20. Wonderful (© 1938)