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[Days are filled with gladness, nights are filled with song]

Appears in 8 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: B. D. Ackley Incipit: 55451 33212 67654 Used With Text: Walking in the King's Highway

Author: A. H. Ackley Appears in 11 hymnals First Line: Days are filled with gladness, nights are filled with song Refrain First Line: Walking, walking in the King's highway Used With Tune: [Days are filled with gladness, nights are filled with song]

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Walking in the King’s Highway

Author: Rev. A. H. Ackley Hymnal: Songs of Faith and Triumph 1, 2 and 3 Combined #4 (1929) First Line: Days are filled with gladness, nights are filled with song Refrain First Line: Walking, walking in the King's highway Lyrics: 1 Days are filled with gladness, nights are filled with song, Walking the King’s highway; And the world grows brighter, as we pass along, Walking the King’s highway. Refrain: Walking, walking in the King’s highway, Walking the King’s highway To the place of many mansions, I shall come at last, Walking the King’s highway. 2 Music from the homeland fills me with delight, Walking the King’s highway; Visions of the glory break upon my sight, Walking the King’s highway. [Refrain] 3 Crown’d with tender mercies, guarded by His love, Walking the King’s highway; Jesus gives a foretaste of the joys above, Walking the King’s highway. [Refrain] Languages: English Tune Title: [Days are filled with gladness, nights are filled with song]

Walking in the King's Highway

Author: Rev. A. H. Ackley Hymnal: Old Songs of the Church #4 (1930) First Line: Days are filled with gladness, nights are filled with song Refrain First Line: Walking, walking in the King's highway Languages: English Tune Title: [Days are filled with gladness, nights are filled with song]

Walking in the King’s Highway

Author: A. H. Ackley Hymnal: Hymns for Praise and Service #14 (1956) First Line: Days are filled with gladness, nights are filled with song Refrain First Line: Walking, walking in the King's highway Topics: Testimony Languages: English Tune Title: [Days are filled with gladness, nights are filled with song]

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A. H. Ackley

1887 - 1960 Person Name: Rev. A. H. Ackley Author of "Walking in the King’s Highway" in Songs of Faith and Triumph 1, 2 and 3 Combined 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)

B. D. Ackley

1872 - 1958 Composer of "[Days are filled with gladness, nights are filled with song]" in Songs of Faith and Triumph 1, 2 and 3 Combined 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)