[When your heart is aching, turn to Jesus] (Ackley)

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[When your heart is aching, turn to Jesus] (Ackley)

Composer: A. H. Ackley
Published in 9 hymnals

Composer: 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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Title:	[When your heart is aching, turn to Jesus] (Ackley)
Composer:	A. H. Ackley
Incipit:	56712 17133 56712
Key:	G Major
Copyright:	© 1933 Word Music, LLC

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Heartaches

Lleva todo tu pesar a Cristo

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Organ Solo

The Gospel Organist Volume Six: Gospel-Song Arrangements Suitable for Preludes, Offertories, Specials
Composer/Editors Harold H. DeCou; Alfred H. Ackley
Published By: Singspiration Music, Inc. (1982) pp. 20
Gospel Stylings for the Modern Organist: The Ackley Gospel Collection
Composer/Editors Ralph Sunden; William McMains
Published By: Pointer Publications, Inc. (1970) pp. 14
Sacred Songs for Organ No. 3: Registrations for Hammond and Pipe Organ
Composer/Editor Peter Slack
Published By: The Rodeheaver Hall-Mack Company (1965) pp. 13

Piano Solo

Instrumental Church Service Selections No. 2: For Organ or Piano
Composer/Editors Clarence Kohlmann; Alfred H. Ackley
Published By: The Rodeheaver Hall-Mack Company (1948) pp. 10

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