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[Oft in silent meditation]

Appears in 3 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: A. L. Byers Incipit: 56531 72153 45653 Used With Text: Memories of Galilee

Memories of Galilee

Author: N. H. Byrum; C. W. Naylor Appears in 4 hymnals First Line: Oft in silent meditation Refrain First Line: Sweet and precious unto me Used With Tune: [Oft in silent meditation]

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Author: C. W. Naylor; N. H. Byrum Hymnal: Songs of Grace and Glory #104 (1918) First Line: Oft in silent meditation Refrain First Line: Sweet and precious unto me Lyrics: 1 Oft in silent meditation Back to Galilee we go, With our fancy’s brightest vision View the scenes of long ago. Refrain: Sweet and precious unto me Are the thoughts of Galilee; Sweeter still the love I feel, Which to me he doth reveal. 2 In the early morn the Master, By the sunlit Galilee, Taught the eager, waiting people As he now is teaching me. [Refrain] 3 “Peace,” he said, and calm o’er-spreading Hushed the raging wind and sea, So his voice to holy quiet Brought the storm of life for me. [Refrain] 4 Tranquil as the peaceful waters In the twilight’s afterglow, So my heart is safely resting In the grace he doth bestow. [Refrain] 5 As the sea his form reflected, And the wavelets sang his praise, So may I show forth his glory From a glad heart all my days. [Refrain] Topics: Meditation Tune Title: [Oft in silent meditation]

Memories of Galilee

Author: N. H. Byrum Hymnal: Truth in Song #5 (1907) First Line: Oft in silent meditation Refrain First Line: Sweet and precious unto me Topics: Meditation Languages: English Tune Title: [Oft in silent meditation]

Memories of Galilee

Author: N. H. Byrum; C. W. Naylor Hymnal: Melodies of Zion #68 (1926) First Line: Oft in silent meditation Refrain First Line: Sweet and precious unto me Languages: English Tune Title: [Oft in silent meditation]

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C. W. Naylor

1874 - 1950 Author of "Memories of Galilee" in Songs of Grace and Glory 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.

A. L. Byers

1869 - 1952 Composer of "[Oft in silent meditation]" in Songs of Grace and Glory Andrew Linnaeus Byers was born on August 26, 1869 in Albany, Illinois. Byers’ mother was song writer Nancy Byers. In 1890 he became involved with Daniel Warner & Barney Warren in evangelistic work; later joined the Gospel Trumpet publishing company as music editor for a year. He left that work because of health problems and worked as an evangelist and pastor in Idaho & Oregon before taking a pastorate in Sacramento, California, in 1934. He died on November 9, 1952 in Sacramento, California. His works include: Birth of a Reformation: The Life and Labors of D. S. Warner, 1922 NN, Hymnary.