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I Would Be Like Jesus

Author: James Rowe Appears in 2 hymnals First Line: Be like Jesus, this my song (Chorus)

[Be like Jesus, this my song]

Appears in 2 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: B. D. Ackley Incipit: 33433 26223 22153 Used With Text: Be Like Jesus

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Be Like Jesus

Author: James Rowe Hymnal: Happy Songs for Boys and Girls #76 (1952) First Line: Be like Jesus, this my song Languages: English Tune Title: [Be like Jesus, this my song]

I would be like Jesus

Author: James Rowe Hymnal: Celestial Songs #754 (1921) First Line: Be like Jesus, this my song Languages: English Tune Title: [Be like Jesus, this my song]

1865 - 1933 Author of "I would be like Jesus" in Celestial Songs Pseudonym: James S. Apple. James Rowe was born in England in 1865. He served four years in the Government Survey Office, Dublin Ireland as a young man. He came to America in 1890 where he worked for ten years for the New York Central & Hudson R.R. Co., then served for twelve years as superintendent of the Mohawk and Hudson River Humane Society. He began writing songs and hymns about 1896 and was a prolific writer of gospel verse with more than 9,000 published hymns, poems, recitations, and other works. 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 "[Be like Jesus, this my song]" in Celestial Songs 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)