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great religious song wruera ui country.Associated with Mr. Itodcheavcr In musical capacity, but acting as confidential secretary to.. Mr. Sunday, is B. D. Ackley, whose home is Philadelphia. Mr. Ackloy ie a pianist of exceptional accomplishment, the author of many fine hymns, and is interested in a number or musical publications. Originally a railroad ticket handler iu the cast, he abandoned this work when his musical ability forced itself upon the attention of his associates. Mr. Ackley is a stenographer and one of the few in the, country who is. even partially successful in reporting Mr. Sunday in his tremend-. oils rapid-fire flights of oratory. Mr. Ackley has composed the melodies for many of the songs which are most popular and effective during the Sunday revivals. -One of the unique characters of the Sunday party Is Fred R. Seibert, who Is known as “the .cowboy evangelist.” He is also the keeper of the tabernacle and the one person who is on duty twenty-four hours out of twenty-four. Of German-Jewish extraction, his features give him out to be rather one of the Mexicans with whom he associated so long, than what he really is. Born In Waverly, Iowa, he was a broncho buster for many years and rode the range when that was an accomplishment that tried the mettle of which men were made. He joined the Sunday party In 1905. With all his life In the west, he is a graduate of the Moody Bible institute, the author of a pamphlet un “Rescue the Perishing,” and Is an adept at Bible quotations. He can cite at will 1.400 verses from the Scripture. The conversion of Seibert dates back to 1895, when leaving a gaming table to go home in disgust he passed a church and was drawn by the music he heard to enter and participate in a revival then in progress. Hc/was converted at that meeting and at once took up work among the ranchmen and cowboys who were his regular associates.(To be continued.)thetliebrctthouthnhopeI o we fessf tioii: aslsi Eui(
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Des Moines Capital
Des Moines, Iowa, US
Fri, Oct 16, 1914
Page 6
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