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Author: James Rowe Appears in 2 hymnals First Line: Would you help the Saviour ev'ry passing day Refrain First Line: Have a bit of sunshine in your heart Used With Tune: [Would you help the Saviour ev'ry passing day]

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[Would you help the Saviour ev'ry passing day]

Appears in 1 hymnal Composer and/or Arranger: B. D. Ackley Incipit: 55635 15354 47776 Used With Text: A Bit of Sunshine

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A Bit of Sunshine

Author: James Rowe Hymnal: Praise and Service Songs for Sunday Schools #87 (1927) First Line: Would you help the Saviour ev'ry passing day Refrain First Line: Have a bit of sunshine in your heart Languages: English Tune Title: [Would you help the Saviour ev'ry passing day]

A Bit of Sunshine

Author: James Rowe Hymnal: Songs of Faith and Triumph Nos. 1, 2 and 3 Combined #d329 (1929) First Line: Would you help the Savior every passing day Refrain First Line: Have a bit of sunshine in your heart

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James Rowe

1865 - 1933 Author of "A Bit of Sunshine" in Praise and Service Songs for Sunday Schools Pseudonym: James S. Apple. James Rowe was born in England in 1865. He served four years in the Government Survey Office, Dublin Ireland as a young man. He came to America in 1890 where he worked for ten years for the New York Central & Hudson R.R. Co., then served for twelve years as superintendent of the Mohawk and Hudson River Humane Society. He began writing songs and hymns about 1896 and was a prolific writer of gospel verse with more than 9,000 published hymns, poems, recitations, and other works. Dianne Shapiro, from "The Singers and Their Songs: sketches of living gospel hymn writers" by Charles Hutchinson Gabriel (Chicago: The Rodeheaver Company, 1916)

B. D. Ackley

1872 - 1958 Composer of "[Would you help the Saviour ev'ry passing day]" in Praise and Service Songs for Sunday Schools 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)