Sunshine in the rain

There are stormy days of trouble that are hard to understand

Author: A. H. Ackley
Tune: [There are stormy days of trouble] (Ackley)
Published in 4 hymnals

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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 >

Text Information

First Line: There are stormy days of trouble that are hard to understand
Title: Sunshine in the rain
Author: A. H. Ackley
Refrain First Line: There's a little of God's sunshine in the rain

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Audio

Christian Service Songs #114

Christian Youth at Song #d88

Convention Songs #d59

The Campers Hymnal, Songs for the Out-of-Doors #d123

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