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Let God use you to tell the old, old story

Author: A. H. Ackley Appears in 2 hymnals

[Let God use you to tell the old, old story]

Appears in 1 hymnal Composer and/or Arranger: Chas. H. Gabriel Used With Text: Let God Use You

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Author: Rev. A. H. Ackley Hymnal: Songs for Service #182 (1918) First Line: Let God use you to tell the old, old story Topics: Male Voices Languages: English Tune Title: [Let God use you to tell the old, old story]

Let God use you to tell the old, old story

Author: A. H. Ackley Hymnal: Diamonds #d113 (1916) Languages: English

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A. H. Ackley

1887 - 1960 Author of "Let God Use You" 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)

Chas. H. Gabriel

1856 - 1932 Composer of "[Let God use you to tell the old, old story]" in Songs for Service Pseudonyms: C. D. Emerson, Charlotte G. Homer, S. B. Jackson, A. W. Lawrence, Jennie Ree ============= For the first seventeen years of his life Charles Hutchinson Gabriel (b. Wilton, IA, 1856; d. Los Angeles, CA, 1932) lived on an Iowa farm, where friends and neighbors often gathered to sing. Gabriel accompanied them on the family reed organ he had taught himself to play. At the age of sixteen he began teaching singing in schools (following in his father's footsteps) and soon was acclaimed as a fine teacher and composer. He moved to California in 1887 and served as Sunday school music director at the Grace Methodist Church in San Francisco. After moving to Chicago in 1892, Gabriel edited numerous collections of anthems, cantatas, and a large number of songbooks for the Homer Rodeheaver, Hope, and E. O. Excell publishing companies. He composed hundreds of tunes and texts, at times using pseudonyms such as Charlotte G. Homer. The total number of his compositions is estimated at about seven thousand. Gabriel's gospel songs became widely circulated through the Billy Sunday-Homer Rodeheaver urban crusades. Bert Polman