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The Finest of the Wheat

Author: Oswald J. Smith Appears in 2 hymnals First Line: Loved ones may go and all I prize most dear Refrain First Line: Ah, yes, His love can fully satisfy

[Loved ones may go, and all I prize most dear]

Appears in 1 hymnal Composer and/or Arranger: B. D. Ackley Used With Text: The Finest of the Wheat

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Author: Oswald J. Smith Hymnal: Oswald Smith's Best Songs #8 (1958) First Line: Loved ones may go, and all I prize most dear Refrain First Line: Ah, yes, His love can fully satisfy Languages: English Tune Title: [Loved ones may go, and all I prize most dear]

Ah, yes, his love can fully satisfy

Author: Oswald J. Smith Hymnal: Dale Hymns No. 3 #d16 (1917) First Line: Loved ones may go and all I prize most dear Languages: English

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B. D. Ackley

1872 - 1958 Composer of "[Loved ones may go, and all I prize most dear]" in Oswald Smith's Best Songs 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)

Oswald J. Smith

1889 - 1986 Author of "The Finest of the Wheat" Smith, Oswald Jeffrey. (Odessa, Ontario, November 8, 1889--January 25, 1986, Toronto, Canada). Presbyterian. Attended Manitoba College, Winnipeg, 1909-1910; Toronto Bible College, 1907-1908, 1910-1912; McCormick Theological Seminary, 1912-1915; further study at Knox College, Toronto; several honorary doctorates. Pastorates in Toronto, 1915-1958; frequently conducted evangelistic meetings and crusades elsewhere. In 1928 he organized the virtually autonomous People's Church, which combines a vigorous evangelistic program in Toronto with an enviable overseas missionary network; in 1958 he relinquished its guidance to his son Paul, but remained its highly active minister emeritus. He published some 35 devotional and inspirational books, which he eventually combined into fourteen; most of his 1200 hymns and poems first appeared in church-connected magazines, but many are found in Poems of a Lifetime (London: Marshall, 1962). --Hugh D. McKellar, DNAH Archives