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[When our race is run]

Appears in 4 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: B. D. Ackley Used With Text: When At Last We Say Good-Bye

Author: Rev. A. H. Ackley Appears in 5 hymnals First Line: When our race is run Refrain First Line: When at last we say goodbye Topics: Memorial Used With Tune: [When our race is run]

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When at Last We Say Good-Bye

Author: Rev. A. H. Ackley Hymnal: Great Revival Hymns No. 2 #147 (1913) First Line: When our race is run, and life's setting sun Refrain First Line: When at last we say goodbye Lyrics: 1 When our race is run, And life’s setting sun Casts its shadows o’er the sky; We shall still endure, If our hope is sure, When at last we say “Goodbye.” Refrain: When at last we say goodbye, When at last we say goodbye; Shall it be with sighing, Or with hope undying, When at last we say goodbye? 2 Will our work be done, And the battle won, Will it mean a crown to die? Or the awful fate Of a soul too late, When at last we say “Goodbye.” [Refrain] 3 Shall the dear ones left, Of our love bereft, Hope to greet us in the sky? We may know today, Jesus is the Way, When at last we say “Goodbye.” [Refrain] Languages: English Tune Title: [When our race is run, and life's setting sun]

When at Last We Say Good-bye

Author: Rev. A. H. Ackley Hymnal: Rodeheaver Collection for Male Voices #41 (1916) First Line: When our race is run Refrain First Line: When at last we say goodbye Languages: English Tune Title: [When our race is run]

When At Last We Say Good-Bye

Author: Rev. A. H. Ackley Hymnal: Songs for Service #59 (1918) First Line: When our race is run Refrain First Line: When at last we say goodbye Topics: Memorial Languages: English Tune Title: [When our race is run]

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A. H. Ackley

1887 - 1960 Author of "When At Last We Say Good-Bye" in Worship and Service 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)

B. D. Ackley

1872 - 1958 Composer of "[When our race is run]" in Worship and 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)