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Songs Of The Church
Publication Date: 1977 Publisher: Howard Publishing Co. Inc. Person Name: Alton H. Howard Publication Place: West Monroe, La. Editors: Alton H. Howard
Songs Of The Church
Just Over in the Glory Land
Author: James W. Acuff Appears in 77 hymnals Person Name: James W. Acuff First Line: I've a home prepared where the saints abide Used With Tune: [I've a home prepared where the saints abide]
Just Over in the Glory Land
Nearer, My God, to Thee
Author: Sarah F. Adams Appears in 2,481 hymnals Person Name: Sarah F. Adams Used With Tune: [Nearer, my God, to Thee]
Nearer, My God, to Thee
[I serve a risen Savior, He's in the world today]
Appears in 121 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: A. H. Ackley Person Name: A. H. A. Tune Key: B Flat Major Incipit: 55661 16355 66351 Used With Text: He Lives
[I serve a risen Savior, He's in the world today]
[I've a home prepared where the saints abide]
Appears in 37 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Emmett S. Dean Person Name: James W. Acuff Tune Key: B Flat Major Incipit: 56111 56165 56121 Used With Text: Just Over in the Glory Land
[I've a home prepared where the saints abide]
[Nearer, my God, to Thee]
Appears in 958 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Lowell Mason Person Name: Sarah F. Adams Tune Key: G Major Incipit: 32116 65132 32116 Used With Text: Nearer, My God, to Thee
[Nearer, my God, to Thee]
Just Over in the Glory Land
Author: James W. Acuff Hymnal: SOTC1977 #303 (1977) Person Name: James W. Acuff First Line: I've a home prepared where the saints abide Tune Title: [I've a home prepared where the saints abide]
Just Over in the Glory Land
Nearer, My God, to Thee
Author: Sarah F. Adams Hymnal: SOTC1977 #364 (1977) Person Name: Sarah F. Adams Tune Title: [Nearer, my God, to Thee]
Nearer, My God, to Thee
A. H. Ackley
1887 - 1960 Person Name: A. H. A. Hymnal Number: 166 Author of "He Lives" in Songs Of The Church Alfred Henry Ackley was born 21 January 1887 in Spring Hill, Pennsylvania. He was the youngest son of Stanley Frank Ackley and the younger brother of B. D. Ackley. His father taught him music and he also studied at the Royal Academy of Music in London. He graduated from Westminster Theological Seminary in Maryland and was ordained as a Presbyterian minister in 1914. He served churches in Pennsylvania and California. He also worked with the Billy Sunday and Homer Rodeheaver evangelist team and for Homer Rodeheaver's publishing company. He wrote around 1500 hymns. He died 3 July 1960 in Los Angeles.
Dianne Shapiro (from ackleygenealogy.com by Ed Ackley and Allen C. Ackley)
A. H. Ackley
B. D. Ackley
1872 - 1958 Hymnal Number: 352 Composer of "I WALK WITH THE KING" in Songs Of The Church Bentley DeForrest Ackley was born 27 September 1872 in Spring Hill, Pennsylvania. He was the oldest son of Stanley Frank Ackley and the brother of A. H. Ackley. In his early years, he traveled with his father and his father's band. He learned to play several musical instruments. By the age of 16, after the family had moved to New York, he began to play the organ for churches. He married Bessie Hill Morley on 20 December 1893. In 1907 he joined the Billy Sunday and Homer Rodeheaver evangelist team as secretary/pianist. He worked for and traveled with the Billy Sunday organization for 8 years. He also worked as an editor for the Homer Rodeheaver publishing company. He composed more than 3000 tunes. He died 3 September 1958 in Winona Hills, Indiana at the age of 85 and is buried in Oakwood Cemetery, Warsaw, Indiana, near his friend Homer Rodeheaver.
Dianne Shapiro (from ackleyfamilygenealogy.com by Ed Ackley and Allen C. Ackley)
B. D. Ackley
J. W. Acuff
1864 - 1937 Person Name: James W. Acuff Hymnal Number: 303 Author of "Just Over in the Glory Land" in Songs Of The Church Born: January 4, 1864, Freestone County, Texas.
Died: August 1, 1937, Georgetown, Texas.
Buried: Odd Fellows Cemetery, Georgetown, Texas.
James was a well known singer and song writer among the Churches of Christ in Texas. He wrote several popular Gospel songs, often led the singing for protracted meetings, and helped compile hymnals for the Firm Foundation Company of Austin. His career as a singer and song writer spanned nearly 50 years.
http://www.hymntime.com/tch/bio/a/c/u/acuff_jw.htm
J. W. Acuff
