Soldiers of the Cross, Arise

Soldiers of the Cross, arise! The clarion call to arms is heard

Author: A. H. Ackley
Tune: [Soldiers of the Cross, arise] (B. D. Ackley)
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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 >

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First Line: Soldiers of the Cross, arise! The clarion call to arms is heard
Title: Soldiers of the Cross, Arise
Author: A. H. Ackley
Language: English
Refrain First Line: Soldiers of the Cross, arise
Publication Date: 1934
Copyright: This text may still be under copyright because it was published in 1934.

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Triumphant Service Songs #133

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