Alfred H. Ackley original lyrics

Reverend Alfred H. Ackley (Jan­u­a­ry 21, 1887 - Ju­ly 3, 1960), Composer (mainly a forte for lyrics) and brother of music composer Bentley D. Ackley.

He re­ceived mu­sic­al train­ing from his fa­ther and studied cello at the Roy­al Acad­e­my of Mu­sic. He grad­u­at­ed from West­min­ster The­o­log­ic­al Sem­in­ary in Mar­y­land, and was or­dained a Pres­by­ter­i­an min­is­ter in 1914.

He wrote around 1,500 re­li­gious and sec­u­lar songs, and was as­so­ci­at­ed with the Ro­de­heav­er mu­sic com­pa­ny (Homer Rodeheaver). John Brown Un­i­ver­si­ty in Si­lo­am Springs, Ar­kan­sas, award­ed him an hon­o­ra­ry Doc­tor of Sac­red Mu­sic de­gree.