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Are You Counting the Cost?

Author: Ina Duley Ogdon Appears in 2 hymnals First Line: Your Savior is calling from Calvary's tree Refrain First Line: Are you counting the cost

[Your Savior is calling from Calvary's tree]

Appears in 1 hymnal Composer and/or Arranger: B. D. Ackley Used With Text: Are you counting the cost?

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Author: Ina Duley Ogdon Hymnal: Songs for Service #34 (1918) First Line: Your Savior is calling from Calvary's tree Refrain First Line: Are you counting the cost Topics: Repentance Languages: English Tune Title: [Your Savior is calling from Calvary's tree]

Are you counting the cost

Author: Ina Duley Ogdon Hymnal: Diamonds #d260 (1916) First Line: Your Savior is calling from Calvary's tree Languages: English

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Ina Duley Ogdon

1872 - 1964 Author of "Are You Counting the Cost?" Ogdon, Ina Duley. (Rossville, Illinois, 1872--May 18, 1964, Toledo, Ohio). Disciples of Christ. Granddaughter of a Methodist minister, she was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William W. Duley. Married James Ogdon. She wrote: "My father went with my mother to her church after his marriage to her, so I was brought up in the church of the Disciples of Christ." She wrote over three thousand hymns, anthems, cantatas, and miscellaneous verse. Her hymns include "Brighten the corner where you are," 1912; "Carry your cross with a smile," 1916; "My Lord abides;" "When you know Jesus too;" "Tell Jesus;" "Lighten the burden for someone;" "I have been saved," Her first hymn was "Open wide the window." Composer Charles Gabriel wrote, "Loved by thousands who have sung her hymns, she shrinks from celebrity in the knowledge that her songs are God-given and that without Him she could do nothing." See: Beattie, David J. (1931). The Romance of Sacred Song. London: Marshall, Morgan and Scott, Ltd. The Presbyterian Survey November 1952. The Toledo Blade, 19 May 1964. --Ernest K. Emurian, DNAH Archives Photo from Joseph Gardner collection from website "Ina Duly Ogdon Home" by Melissa Archibald (http://www.freewebs.com/marchi/inaphotosarticles.htm)

B. D. Ackley

1872 - 1958 Composer of "[Your Savior is calling from Calvary's tree]" in Songs for Service 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)