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[I have found a Friend to guide me]

Appears in 5 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: B. D. Ackley Incipit: 32171 23543 67513 Used With Text: So May You

Author: James Rowe Appears in 6 hymnals First Line: I have found a Friend to guide me Refrain First Line: Jesus is my precious Savior Used With Tune: [I have found a Friend to guide me]

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So May You

Author: James Rowe Hymnal: Great Revival Hymns No. 2 #212 (1913) First Line: I have found a Friend to guide me Refrain First Line: Jesus is my precious Saviour Lyrics: 1 I have found a Friend to guide me, So may you—so may you. I’ve a Comforter beside me, Burdened soul, and so may you. Refrain: Jesus is my precious Saviour, He’s my Friend, and He is true, I have found a great Companion, So may you, and you, and you. 2 I have had my fetters broken, So may you—so may you. I have heard forgiveness spoken, Burdened soul, and so may you. [Refrain] 3 To this mighty Friend I’m clinging, So may you—so may you. All the while my heart is singing, Burdened soul, and so may you. [Refrain] 4 I to Him my heart have given, So may you—so may you. I shall follow Him to heaven, Burdened soul, and so may you. [Refrain] Languages: English Tune Title: [I have found a Friend to guide me]

So May You

Author: James Rowe Hymnal: Rodeheaver's Gospel Solos and Duets #34 (1925) First Line: I have found a Friend to guide me Refrain First Line: Jesus is my precious Savior Languages: English Tune Title: [I have found a Friend to guide me]

So May You

Author: James Rowe Hymnal: Choir Favorites #54 (1948) First Line: I have found a Friend to guide me Refrain First Line: Jesus is my precious Savior Languages: English Tune Title: [I have found a Friend to guide me]

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James Rowe

1865 - 1933 Author of "So May You" in Rodeheaver's Gospel Solos and Duets Pseudonym: James S. Apple. James Rowe was born in England in 1865. He served four years in the Government Survey Office, Dublin Ireland as a young man. He came to America in 1890 where he worked for ten years for the New York Central & Hudson R.R. Co., then served for twelve years as superintendent of the Mohawk and Hudson River Humane Society. He began writing songs and hymns about 1896 and was a prolific writer of gospel verse with more than 9,000 published hymns, poems, recitations, and other works. Dianne Shapiro, from "The Singers and Their Songs: sketches of living gospel hymn writers" by Charles Hutchinson Gabriel (Chicago: The Rodeheaver Company, 1916)

B. D. Ackley

1872 - 1958 Composer of "[I have found a Friend to guide me]" in Rodeheaver's Gospel Solos and Duets 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)