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, Penn­syl­van­ia, 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. His bro­ther was Bent­ley Ack­ley; his wife was Hel­en Ar­ma­cost.

• Hustad, p. 194
• Reynolds, p. 238
• Sanville, pp. 22, 34, 46, 54
• Taylor, p. 233
• Young, p. 714

1. Abide in Me, the Path I Tread Is Drea­ry
2. Agonies of Cal­va­ry Could Not His Love Dis­may, The
3. All Day Long the Sweet­est Mu­sic
4. All Is Well When I Am Wea­ry
5. All Sin­ful and Fool­ish, My Life
6. All the Dar­kness of the Night
7. All the Sav­ior’s Glo­ry Mind Can Ne­ver
8. All the Way with Je­sus
9. All You Need God Will Do
10. Among the Friends I Call My Own
11. Are the Days of Long Ago Far Sweet­er?
12. Are You Tired of Ev­ery­thing?
13. Around the Cross the Ran­somed Stand
14. As a Tree Be­side the Wa­ter
15. At Ca­lva­ry’s Cross I Met a Friend
16. At the Cross I Met the Mas­ter
17. At the End of the Road
18. At the Place of Pray­er I Sought Him
19. Back to the Faith of My Child­hood
20. Back to the Faith of Our Fa­thers
21. Be Hon­est with God
22. Be Not Dis­cour­aged, God Still Is
23. Beautiful Sab­bath, Day of Our Lord
24. Behold Him Who Walks in the High­way
25. Believe, to All Who Will Be­lieve
26. Beyond the Dark­ness, Past the Sha­dows Deep
27. Beyond the Storm Cloud Is the Rain­bow
28. Beyond the Sun­set and the Shade
29. Blessed Fel­low­ship My Soul Has Found, A
30. Blessed Je­sus, O I Need Thee
31. Bowing Low Be­neath the Bur­den of the Con­flict
32. Buried Deep in the Foun­tain of Mer­cy
33. Can the Lord Use You
34. Can You Say You Love the Lord?
35. Carry Me Back to the Love of My Mo­ther
36. Christ Came to His Own, but They Spurned Him
37. Christ Je­sus Is Mine, Mine For­ev­er
38. Christ Loved Me, This Is the Rea­son
39. Christ We For­get, The
40. Christian, Re­joice, for the Lord Will Re­turn
41. Clouds of Grief O’er­sha­dow the Sky, The
42. Coming Home
43. Could a Li­ttle Bit of Sun­shine
44. Darkest Day Is Filled with Light, The
45. Days Are Filled with Glad­ness
46. Do a Deed of Kind­ness Ev­ery Morn­ing
47. Do Not Turn Away from One Who Loves You
48. Each Mo­ment Is a Jew­el Rare
49. Earthly Joys May Fail and Per­ish
50. Every Day I Need Thee More and More
51. Everybody Ought to Love My Sav­ior
52. Face to Face His Spir­it Brings Us
53. Faith Will Re­move the Moun­tain
54. Father in Hea­ven, In­spire Our Poor Sight
55. For Ser­vice I Am Set Apart
56. Forgotten, the Vow You Made to Je­sus
57. Forth from the King’s Eter­nal Throne
58. Friend, You Need the Sav­ior
59. Give Me Thy­self That I May Have
60. Go Forth to Serve, as Je­sus Went
61. God Calls un­to the Har­vest Field
62. God Care for Me, Should I Be Car­ing
63. God Has a Gar­den Where He
64. God Has Not For­got­ten
65. God Is Good, He Sends the Rain
66. God Knows All About You
67. God Ne­ver Dis­ap­points
68. God of the Liv­ing Church Em­pow­er
69. God’s To­mor­row
70. Grace, Free Grace, Is the Pro­mise of God
71. Have You Any Bur­dens?
72. Have You Ev­er Thought There Is One Who Knows?
73. Have You Set Your Face Towards Zi­on?
74. He Lives
75. He Reach­es Out a Wound­ed Hand
76. He Will Not Let Me Fall
77. Heartaches
78. Help Me, Dear Lord, to Walk To­day
79. He’s a Friend Above All
80. His Love Is Great­er Than My Sin
81. How Could Christ Love Such a World?
82. How Do I Know That My Lord Is Di­vine?
83. I Am Am­azed That God Could Ev­er Love Me
84. I Am Com­ing Home
85. I Am Hap­py in the Love of Je­sus
86. I Am Liv­ing Each Day as I Jour­ney Be­low
87. I Am Wait­ing for the Hour
88. I Be­lieve That Je­sus Saves Me
89. I Can Find Him Ev­er­y­where
90. I Could Ne­ver Get Along With­out Him
91. I Do Not Ask for Di­a­dem or Scep­ter
92. I En­tered by the Door of Faith
93. I Feel the Waves of Glo­ry
94. I Have a Dream With­in My Heart
95. I Have a Friend Who Abides in My Heart
96. I Have a Friend Who Cared Enough for Me
97. I Have a Friend Who Cares for Me
98. I Have a Friend Who Is Able to Save
99. I Have Found a Great Sal­va­tion
100. I Have Found a Won­drous Sav­ior
101. I Have Found Rest in My Won­der­ful Lord
102. I Have Found the Bless­ing
103. I Hear a Voice So Soft and Low
104. I Know an All Su­ffi­cient Sav­ior
105. I Love Him Each Day Far Bet­ter
106. I Love Thy House, O Lord Most High
107. I Love to Hear My Sav­ior’s Voice
108. I Love to Think That He
109. I Ne­ver Walk Alone
110. I Of­ten Stop and Won­der Why
111. I Own Not the Rich­es of Sil­ver or Gold
112. I Shall Dwell For­ev­er There
113. I Shall Be Rea­dy to Wel­come the Sav­ior
114. I Sing You the Song of a Won­der­ful Friend
115. I Stand at the Dawn of a Beau­ti­ful Day
116. I Think of Thee, O Bless­ed Sav­ior
117. I Want Je­sus
118. I Want to Live Like Je­sus Lived
119. If We On­ly Knew the Joys That We Have Missed
120. If You Are Wea­ry of Sin, There Is Rest
121. If You Have a Friend in Sor­row
122. If You Have a Load of Trou­ble
123. If You Love Him, You Will Al­ways Speak for Je­sus
124. If You On­ly Knew His Love for You
125. If You Walk in the Vale of So­rrow
126. If You Want to Be Hap­py, Take Je­sus
127. If You Want to Know the Sav­ior
128. If You Want to Know the Sec­ret of the Beau­ty
129. I’ll Tell to All That God Is Love
130. I’m One of His Own, by Pur­chase
131. In His Ocean of Love with My Lord
132. In the Dear Name of Je­sus Christ
133. In the High­way of His Love
134. In the Morn­ing I See His Face
135. In the Morn­ing, Lord I Come
136. In the Ser­vice of the King
137. In the Win­ter’s Snow, So Soft and White
138. Is It Far to the Cross Where the Sav­ior Died?
139. Is the Christ That You Wor­ship
140. Is There a Friend Who Knows All of My Sor­rows?
141. I’ve Found a Ref­uge Where None Can Mo­lest
142. Jehovah Is Thy God!
143. Jesus Has Prom­ised to Save You from Sin
144. Jesus Has Prom­ised Your Needs to Sup­ply
145. Jesus Hides Me in the Storm of Evil
146. Jesus Is the Joy of Liv­ing
147. Jesus Is with Me
148. Jesus, My Sav­ior, the Son of God
149. Jesus, the Meek and Mild
150. Just Be Thank­ful for the Lit­tle Things of Life
151. Keep in Step with Je­sus
152. King of My Heart Is Je­sus, The
153. Knowing but Je­sus, His Cross and His Glo­ry
154. Leaving All to Fol­low Je­sus
155. Lest I Lose My Way and Wan­der
156. Let God Use You to Tell the Old, Old Sto­ry
157. Let Me Shel­ter Thee, Thou Canst Not Live Apart
158. Let the Church March On thru a Sin-Cursed World
159. Life Was Meant to Be a Time of Joy and Beau­ty
160. Lift Up My Soul, O Lord I Come Con­fess­ing
161. Listening at the Heart’s Door
162. Lo the Land of Prom­ise­s Lies Be­fore Us
163. Lonely the Grave Where Je­sus Lies
164. Long Have I Tried to Still the Rag­ing Tide
165. Longing for Par­don I Seek Thee My Sav­ior
166. Love Light­ed Cross Ne­ver Loses Its Glow, The
167. Love of Christ Is So Pre­cious, The
168. Love Opened Wide the Door
169. Make Christ King of Men and Na­tions
170. March On, Ye Sol­diers of the Cross
171. Master Knows How Weary Grows the Path, The
172. Meet Him at the Cross
173. Mine, a Sav­ior Who Is All Suf­fi­cient
174. More Than You Know
175. More Than You Will Ev­er Know
176. Morning with Je­sus When La­bor Is Ended
177. My Con­fi­dence in Je­sus Grows Strong­er Ev­ery Day
178. My Heart Be­longs to Je­sus
179. My Heart Over­flows
180. My Life Is Full of Glo­ry
181. My Mo­ther
182. My Soul Was in Mis­ery
183. My Yesterday
184. Never Give Up, Ne­ver Give Up
185. Night Her Sil­ver Veil Is Wear­ing
186. No More Bur­dens, No More Heart­aches
187. No More Weep­ing o’er My Sin
188. No Shades of Night to Lure from Right
189. No Sha­dow of Turn­ing in Je­sus
190. No Wel­come Gave a Dy­ing World
191. O Blest Me­mor­i­al of Love That Ne­ver Fails
192. O Come and Bow Be­fore Him
193. O List the Sto­ry That Ne­ver Grows Old
194. O Make Me Free, My Bless­ed Sav­ior
195. O Son of God, Whence Are Those Tears
196. O Son of God Who Died for Us
197. O the Height I Can­not Mea­sure
198. O the Mo­ments of Joy When My Soul Shall Take Wings
199. O to Be Alone with Je­sus
200. O to Be There, Where the Songs of Glo­ry
201. O What Pain Your Heart Has Suf­fered
202. O Why Do Wan­der in Sor­row?
203. Once the Sun Was Ne­ver Shin­ing
204. Only a Smile That Is Cheery and Bright
205. Only in Je­sus, the Cru­ci­fied Sav­ior
206. Out of the Depths, Poor, Wretch­ed, Blind
207. Pardoning Grace
208. Peace I Re­ceived When He Saved Me, The
209. Perfect Day Is Com­ing By and By, A
210. Plain Is the Path Where Je­sus Is Lead­ing
211. Praise Ye the God of Hea­ven
212. Precious Re­deem­er in Je­sus I Find, A
213. Read Your Bi­ble
214. Repent! ’Tis the Voice of Je­sus
215. Rock Ribbed Hills of Doubt I Tread, The
216. Savior Left His Fa­ther’s House of Light, The
217. Scenes of Beau­ty Greet Me
218. Shadows of Ev­en­ing Around Us Are Fall­ing, The
219. Sin Has Left Me Sore
220. Sing Me a Song of Je­sus
221. So Dear to Me Is Je­sus
222. Soft and Low, Soft and Low
223. Some Bless­ed Day My Cher­ished Dreams Shall Be
224. Somebody Knows
225. Somehow I Know That Christ Is Mine
226. Somehow the Sav­ior Seems a Lit­tle Near­er
227. Someone Is Here with a Bur­den
228. Stand Fast in the Faith of the Cru­ci­fied
229. Stand for the Right, the Right
230. Sweetly Abid­ing, Kept by His Pow­er
231. Take Me Just as I Am, My Sav­ior
232. Take Up Thy Cross
233. Teach Me to Pray, Lord, Hum­bly to Plead
234. Tell the World There Is a Sav­ior
235. That Won­der­ful Ci­ty Called Hea­ven
236. There Are Ma­ny Hearts Near­ly Bro­ken
237. There Are Ma­ny Trou­bles That Will Burst Like Bub­bles
238. There Are Sha­dows of So­rrow That Dark­en Life’s Way
239. There Are Stor­my Days of Trou­ble
240. There Came to the Earth a Pil­grim
241. There Is a Face Di­vine­ly Fair
242. There Is a Guide That Ne­ver Fal­ters
243. There Is Good News for All the Dis­tressed
244. There Is Mu­sic in the Air
245. There Is One Who Knows All About You
246. There Is On­ly One Name That Can Sa­tis­fy Men
247. There Is On­ly One Way to the Sav­ior
248. There Is Pow­er in the Cross of Je­sus
249. There Shall Be No Tears
250. There Was No One to Take My Place
251. There’ll Be Light in the Sky
252. There’s a Bur­den You Ne­ver Can Car­ry Alone
253. There’s a Gar­den of Mem­o­ry Kissed by the Sun
254. There’s a Land Where the Birds Are Ev­er Sing­ing
255. There’s a New Day Dawn­ing (1923)
256. There’s a Rain­bow in the Sky
257. There’s a Rain­bow Shin­ing
258. There’s a Sav­ior Who Walks by My Side All the Way
259. There’s a Song in My Heart, ’Tis Je­sus
260. Though I Walk the Shore That Rims the Ocean
261. Though You Have Fall­en on Life’s Way
262. Through All the Sha­dows
263. Through Life’s Pil­grim Way
264. To My Soul Christ Came with Heal­ing
265. Today I Need Thy Guid­ing Hand
266. Tongue Can Ne­ver Tell How Much I Love Him
267. Trust in the Lord, ’Tis the Joy of Liv­ing
268. ’Twill Not Be Long Till All the Sha­dows
269. Upon a Hill Be­fore Me, a Blood Stained Cross I See
270. Vain Re­grets of Yes­ter­day, The
271. Wanderer with Bro­ken Heart, A
272. Way of Sin Is Filled with Pain, The
273. We For­get Him in the Rounds of Plea­sure
274. We Owe Al­le­giance to a King
275. We Shall Al­ways Be Hap­py Over There
276. We Shall Tra­vel with the King
277. We Will Wait for the Com­ing of Je­sus
278. Wealth of All Hea­ven Is Mine, the
279. What Great Com­pas­sion Christ Has Shown
280. What Is Your Life When by God’s Stan­dard Mea­sured
281. What Nob­ler Deed Was Ev­er Wrought
282. What Though the Way to Glo­ry
283. What Will You Do When the Judge Ap­pears?
284. What Will You Give to Je­sus?
285. What Would We Do With­out the Clouds?
286. Whatever Life May Bring You
287. What’s the Use of Our Com­plain­ing?
288. What’s the Use of Sigh­ing?
289. When Dreams of Glo­ry Fade from My Sight
290. When God Is Near, with Light My Path Is Glow­ing
291. When I Be­hold the King
292. When I De­part, I Want Some Friend
293. When I Have Fin­ished My Pil­grim­age Here
294. When I Made a Full Sur­ren­der
295. When I Re­called How I Had Spurned His Love
296. When I Think of the Love of My Sav­ior
297. When I’m with Him
298. When It’s Rain­ing and the Sun Is Shin­ing
299. When Je­sus Shall Ap­pear
300. When Je­sus Was a Child Like Me
301. When Mine Eyes Be­hold the King in His Gl­ory
302. When Our Race Is Run
303. When the Days Are Dark and Long
304. When the Life Is Torn with Sor­row
305. When the Sun Go­eth Down
306. When the World For­gets
307. When You Know My Bless­ed Sav­ior
308. When Your Heart Is Ach­ing, Turn to Je­sus
309. Whenever You Are Temp­ted
310. Who Can Tell How Great the Love Christ Re­veals?
311. Who Knows?
312. Who Will Be a Witn­ess?
313. Wilderness of Sin I Roamed, The
314. With Sor­row and Woe I Was Cru­el­ly Crowned
315. Within My Heart I Hold a Fad­eless Mem­o­ry
316. Wonderful
317. Wonderful Birth, to a Man­ger
318. Won’t You Come Now and Give All to the Sav­ior
319. World Needs a Friend Like Je­sus, The
320. Ye Who the Love of a Mo­ther Have Known
321. You Can Be a Bless­ing If You Will
322. You Can Know Him Now
323. You Can Know Je­sus and Love Him To­day
324. You Can­not Hide from God
325. You May Have Your Doubts of Hea­ven
326. You Must Do Some­thing

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