Walking in the King's Highway

Days are filled with gladness, nights are filled with song

Author: A. H. Ackley
Tune: [Days are filled with gladness, nights are filled with song]
Published in 11 hymnals

Audio files: MIDI

Representative Text

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]

Source: Songs of Faith and Triumph 1, 2 and 3 Combined: Tryout Edition #4

Author: 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 >

Text Information

First Line: Days are filled with gladness, nights are filled with song
Title: Walking in the King's Highway
Author: A. H. Ackley
Language: English
Refrain First Line: Walking, walking in the King's highway
Publication Date: 1923
Copyright: Public Domain

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