[O list to the story that never grows old]

[O list to the story that never grows old]

Composer: A. H. Ackley
Published in 3 hymnals


Composer: A. H. Ackley

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) Go to person page >

Tune Information

Title: [O list to the story that never grows old]
Composer: A. H. Ackley
Incipit: 55354 24313 25123
Key: F Major or modal
Copyright: © 1934 by Homer A. Rodeheaver, renewed 1962, Word Music

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Instances

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Audio

New Awakening Songs #143

Reformed Press Hymnal #61

Triumphant Service Songs #61

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