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C. W. Naylor

1874 - 1950 Person Name: Charles W. Naylor Scripture: 1 Thessalonians 4:16 Author of "We'll Arise" in Timeless Truths 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.

Uriah E. Hallman

Person Name: U. E. H. Scripture: 1 Thessalonians 4:16 Author (refrain) of "We'll Arise" in Timeless Truths

Georgia C. Elliott

Scripture: 1 Thessalonians 4:17 Author of "The Last Hymn" in Timeless Truths

W. W. Titley

Scripture: 1 Thessalonians 4:17 Author of "Some Blessed Day" in Timeless Truths

Samuel Willoughby Duffield

1843 - 1887 Person Name: Samuel W. Duffield Scripture: 1 Thessalonians 4:17 Translator of "O Quanta Qualia" in Laudes Domini Duffield, Samuel Augustus Willoughby, son of G. Duffield, jun., was born at Brooklyn, Sept. 24, 1843, and graduated at Yale College, 1863. In 1866 he was licensed, and in 1867 ordained as a Presbyterian Minister, and is now [1886] Pastor of West¬minster Church, Bloomfield, New Jersey. He published in 1867 a translation of Bernard's Hora novissima (q.v.): Warp and Woof; a Book of Verse, 1868 (copyright, 1870); and The Burial of the Dead (in conjunction with his father), 1882. In the Laudes Domini, N.Y., 1884, the following translations and an original hymn are by him:— 1. Holy Spirit, come and shine. A translation of "Veni Sancte Spiritus." 1883. 2. O Christ, the Eternal Light. A translation of "Christe lumen perpetuum." 1883. 3. O land, relieved from sorrow. On Heaven, written in 1875. 4. O what shall be, O when shall be. A translation of "O quanta qualia." 1883. 5. To Thee, O Christ, we ever pray. A translation of "Christe precamur annue." 1883. -- John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907) ================== Duffield, S. A. W. , p. 315, ii. He died May 12, 1887. His English Hymns, Their Authors and History, was published in 1886, and his Latin Hymn-Writers and their Hymns posthumously, edited by Dr. R. E. Thompson, in 1889. (See p. 1526, i.) --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, Appendix, Part II (1907)