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[When mourning oft your load of guilt]

Appears in 2 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: B. D. Ackley Tune Key: E Flat Major Incipit: 53321 71556 32343 Used With Text: Look Away to Calvary

Author: Lizzie DeArmond Appears in 2 hymnals First Line: When mourning oft your load of guilt Refrain First Line: O wonderful, O glorious Calvary! Used With Tune: [When mourning oft your load of guilt]

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Look Away to Calvary

Author: Lizzie DeArmond Hymnal: The New Praiseworthy #214 (1916) First Line: When mourning oft your load of guilt Refrain First Line: O wonderful, O glorious Calvary! Lyrics: 1 When mourning oft your load of guilt, When free from sin you long to be, Just rest your soul on Jesus' love- Look away to Calvary! Chorus: O wonderful, O glorious Calvary! O wondrous fountain, flowing free! 'Twill cleanse your heart from ev'ry stain of sin; Look away to Calvary! 2 A broken heart for sacrifice, Bring to the Lord, whose grace is free; His blood can cleanse each crimson stain; Look away to Calvary! [Chorus] 3 His saving power you shall know, Who waits for you so patiently; Fear not to trust this Friend divine; Look away to Calvary! [Chorus] Languages: English Tune Title: [When mourning oft your load of guilt]

Look Away to Calvary

Author: Lizzie DeArmond Hymnal: Make Christ King. Combined #144 (1916) First Line: When mourning oft your load of guilt Refrain First Line: O wonderful, O glorious Calvary! Languages: English Tune Title: [When mourning oft your load of guilt]

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Lizzie De Armond

1847 - 1936 Person Name: Lizzie DeArmond Author of "Look Away to Calvary" in The New Praiseworthy Lizzie De Armond was a prolific writer of children's hymns, recitations and exercises. When she was twelve years old her first poem was published in the Germantown, Pa. Telegraph, however, it was not until she was a widow with eight children to support that she started writing in earnest. She wrote articles, librettos, nature stories and other works, as well as hymns. 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 "[When mourning oft your load of guilt] " in The New Praiseworthy 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)