Born: Cuba, Illinois, 1866.
Died: 1955.
Mr. Snively was born in the same house and immersed in the same baptistery in Cuba that his father was. He became a Christian under the ministry of H. C. Littleton. Soon thereafter Mr. Littleton said to him: "How would you like to go to school and prepare to preach the gospel?" "Do you think I could do it?" "Yes," was Mr. Littleton's assurance.
Mr. Snively attended school at Eureka and the Bible College at Lexington, Kentucky, but he did not graduate. However, by attendance at university lectures, correspondence courses and personal application, he grew to be a very capable and efficient minister.
For a number of years he was associated with his father in the county clerkship of Fulton County and other lines of business, which gave him a good commercial training. Meanwhile, he was preaching upon the Lord's Days. After several successful pastorates, he became the first general secretary of the National Benevolent Association of the churches of Christ, in 1901. The results of his five years of service in this capacity were exceedingly gratifying. Then he was successfully associated with the Christian Publishing Company, St. Louis, Missouri.
Following his earnest desire, in 1907 he became a general evangelist. Here God has used him in turning thousands to the Prince of peace. He has also come to be one of the most efficient men in the "dedication of new churches," in which work he has won hundreds of thousands of dollars to sacred uses.
Mr. Snively has always been too busy and earnest, and the needs of the world have been too insistent in his conscience, to give any time to untaught questions or doubtful disputations. He believes the Book and preaches the truth.