[When the last earth-tie is sundered]

[When the last earth-tie is sundered]

Composer: Charles W. Naylor
Published in 4 hymnals


Audio files: MIDI

Composer: Charles W. Naylor

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.… Go to person page >

Tune Information

Title: [When the last earth-tie is sundered]
Composer: Charles W. Naylor
Meter: 8.5.8.5.7.7.7.5
Incipit: 55332 16166 55555
Key: A♭ Major
Copyright: Public Domain

Texts

Anticipation

When the last earth-tie is sundered,
And my soul set free;
When life’s cares and toils are numbered,
I shall haste to be
With my Lord, in realms of light,
Where no sin can ever blight,
Where ne’er comes the shades of night;
To His arms I’ll flee.

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