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What Would We Do Without the Savior?

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Author: 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 >

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First Line: What would we do without the sunshine
Title: What Would We Do Without the Savior?
Author: A. H. Ackley (1939)
Language: English
Publication Date: 1939
Copyright: Copyright, 1939, by the Rodeheaver Co. International copyright secured
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Appearance of this hymn in hymnals19401941194219431944194519461947194819491950195119521953195419551956050100Percent of hymnalsHighcharts.com
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