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Some Blessed Day
Author: Edna Jaques Appears in 2 hymnals First Line: Some blessed day my Lord will call
Some Blessed Day
Some Blessed Day
Author: Edna Jaques Hymnal: Hymns of Blessing for the Living Church #161 (1916) First Line: Some blessed day my Lord will call Languages: English Tune Title: [Some blessed day my Lord will call]
Some Blessed Day
Some Blessèd Day
Author: Edna Jacques Hymnal: The Cyber Hymnal #6187 Meter: 8.8.8.8 First Line: Some blessèd day my Lord will call Lyrics: 1. Some blessèd day my Lord will call,
And with a joyous heart I’ll go
Again to Him, my All in All,
Who died for me, and loved me so.
2. Some blessèd day life’s lesson learned,
And I shall call again to Thee,
To whom my heart has ever turned,
The Christ who gave His all for me.
3. Some blessèd day at eventide
When shadows creep before the night
The pearly gates will open wide,
And I shall pass into the light. Languages: English Tune Title: ACKLEY
Some Blessèd Day
B. D. Ackley
1872 - 1958 Person Name: Bentley DeForest Ackley Composer of "ACKLEY" in The Cyber Hymnal 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)
B. D. Ackley
Edna Jaques
1891 - 1978 Author of "Some Blessed Day" Born: January 17/18, 1891, Collingwood, Ontario, Canada.
Died: September 9, 1979, Willowdale, Ontario, Canada.
Buried: Trinity United Church cemetery, Collingwood, Ontario, Canada.
Daughter of Charles Adolphus and Mary Ellen Donohue Jacques, Edna grew up in Briercrest, near Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan. She began writing verse as a teenager, her first efforts appearing in the Moose Jaw Times. After finishing her studies in the public schools, she moved to Calgary where she wrote a poetic response to In Flanders Fields, which was read at the dedication of the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Washington, DC. This vaulted her into the public eye, and the editor of the Calgary Herald offered to pay her way to the university. But she had the travel bug, and instead went to Vancouver, where she worked in a hospital, and as a stenographer and waitress before becoming a journalist for the Vancouver Provinces. She married William Ernest Jamieson, November 21, 1921, and they they moved to a farm near Prince Albert, Saskatchewan. She and her daughter Joyce later to Victoria, where she worked as a stenographer and wrote articles and poems for newspapers and magazines.
In World War II, Jacques worked in a factory for a time, and on the War Time Prices and Trade Board. Her literary circle included Nellie McClung and Mildred Valley Thornton. McClung was instrumental in the publication of her book, My Kitchen Window. By the time of her death, Jacques’ poetry had sold a quarter million copies. Her works include:
In Flanders Now, 1919
Wide Horizons, circa 1932
Drifting Soil, 1934
My Kitchen Window, 1935
Dreams in Your Heart, 1937
Beside Still Waters, 1939
Britons Awake, 1940
Aunt Hattie’s Place, 1941
Roses in December, 1944
Back Door Neighbors, 1946
Hills of Home, 1948
Verses for You, circa 1945
Fireside Poems, 1950
The Golden Road, 1953
Belle Plain District History, 1966
The Best of Edna Jacques, 1966
Uphill All the Way, 1977
Prairie Born, Prairie Bred: Poetic Reflections of a Pioneer, circa 1979
Cyber Hymnal
Edna Jaques
