Calvary

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The agonies of Calvary Could not his love dismay

Author: A. H. Ackley
Tune: [The agonies of Calvary]
Published in 9 hymnals

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1 The agonies of Calvary,
Could not His love dismay;
He would not yield, though God revealed
The price that He must pay.
He would not yield, though God revealed
The price that He must pay.

2 He stood condemned in Pilate’s Hall,
He heard the rabbles’ cry;
The King with none to own His cause,
My cause would not deny.
The King with none to own His cause,
My cause would not deny.

3 Lo! Jesus stands with broken heart,
With nail-pierced hands and feet:
He points unto His cross of woe,
Where love and mercy meet.
He points unto His cross of woe,
Where love and mercy meet.

4 The Savior stands at thy heart’s door
Bruised for thy cruel sin:
O why not open wide the door
And let Him enter in?
O why not open wide the door
And let Him enter in?

Source: Favorites Number 4: A Collection of Gospel Songs #17

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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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