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[Soul are you drifting with the tide]
Appears in 2 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: B. D. Ackley Used With Text: Drifting
[Soul are you drifting with the tide]
B. D. Ackley
1872 - 1958 Composer of "[Soul, are you drifting with the tide]" in Life and Service Hymns 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)
B. D. Ackley
Lida Shivers Leech
1873 - 1962 Author of "Drifting" Born: July 12, 1873, Mayville, New Jersey.
Died: March 4, 1962, Long Beach, California.
Leech spent her childhood in Cape May Court House, New Jersey, and attended Columbia University and Temple University. She played the organ at Bethany Methodist Church in Camden, New Jersey, served as accompanist at evangelical services, and wrote some 500 hymn tunes in her lifetime.
Sources--
Emurian, pp. 112-3
Reynolds, p. 336
Lyrics--
God’s Way Is Best
I Have Redeemed Thee
I’ll Go Anywhere
No Fault in Him
Some Day He’ll Make It Plain
Thine for Service
Trust Me, Try Me, Prove Me © 1928
When the Veil is Lifted
--www.hymntime.com/tch
Lida Shivers Leech
