Roth at­tend­ed the Fort Wayne (In­di­ana) Bi­ble School and the Moo­dy Bi­ble In­sti­tute in Chi­ca­go, Illinois. He worked with tra­vel­ing evan­gel­ist tours, and was a mu­sic teach­er at the Al­li­ance Bi­ble schools in St. Paul, Min­ne­so­ta, and New York Ci­ty; the Bi­ble In­sti­tute, Los An­ge­les, Cal­i­for­nia; Bap­tist The­o­log­ic­al Coll­ege; and Ci­ty Coll­ege of Los An­ge­les. His Ec­cle­sia Choir toured through­out Amer­i­ca in 1931. He wrote over 100 hymns, and a num­ber of an­thems.

• Taylor, pp. 402-03

1. End of the Road, The
2. How Can I Help but Love Him?
3. I Have a Song That Je­sus Gave Me