Short Name: | C. W. Naylor |
Full Name: | Naylor, C. W. (Charles Wesley), 1874-1950 |
Birth Year: | 1874 |
Death Year: | 1950 |
Naylor, Charles Wesley. (1874--1950). C. W. Naylor was born in southern Ohio and reared in Ohio and West Virginia by grandparents. At the age of nineteen he left the Methodist church for the Church of God. He worked for a while at the Gospel Trumpet Company in Grand Junction, Michigan and on some evangelistic tours. He was ordained in 1899 in Springfield, Ohio. He was first injured in 1908 in Florida while moving timbers from under a meeting tent. He suffered a dislocated kidney and other internal injuries. A year later he was in a bus accident that left him an invalid for the rest of his life.
Naylor wrote eight books, many articles and pamphlets, many hymns and gospel songs, besides being a columnist in the Gospel Trumpet.
--John W.V. Smith, DNAH Archives
See also: Neidert, David L. (1985). Reformation's Song: A History of Church of God Music. Anderson, Ind.: the author.
Tunes by C. W. Naylor (11)![]() | As | Instances | Incipit |
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[As I come, O Savior, pleading] | Charles W. Naylor (Composer) | 5 | 32114 33133 32521 |
[How safe is the soul that abides in the Lord] | Charles W. Naylor (Composer) | 5 | 55651 76555 11777 |
[Hushed is the wood-bird's note, silent her song of glee] | Charles W. Naylor (Composer) | 4 | 15555 56665 77111 |
[Long scattered thy children, O Zion, have been] | Charles W. Naylor (Composer) | 8 | 51111 71332 13321 |
[Once again we come to the house of God] | Charles W. Naylor, 1874-1950 (Composer) | 10 | 12333 21555 653 |
[Savior, now my heart is longing] | Charles W. Naylor (Composer) | 4 | 33443 13171 24323 |
[Though I walk in ways unknown] | Charles W. Naylor (Composer) | 5 | 34554 53351 16153 |
[To God be the glory] (Naylor) | Charles W. Naylor (Composer) | 5 | 12356 53123 21122 |
[When the last earth-tie is sundered] | Charles W. Naylor (Composer) | 5 | 55332 16166 55555 |
[When the winds of persecution blow] | C. W. Naylor (Composer) | 2 | |
[When you see Christ coming in the clouded sky] | C. W. Naylor (Composer) | 2 |