Scoville grad­u­at­ed from Tri-State Coll­ege, An­go­la, In­di­a­na (BS 1892) and Hir­am Coll­ege, Hir­am, Ohio (AB 1897, AM 1898). He then went in­to the evan­gel­ism field, but al­so helped found the Me­tro­pol­i­tan Church in Chi­ca­go, Il­li­nois. He held evan­gel­ism cam­paigns over­seas in 1900, in Aus­tral­ia in 1912, and through­out America. His works in­clude:

• Christian Gos­pel Hymns, (Chi­ca­go, Il­li­nois: Charles Reign Sco­ville, 1909)
• The Lord­ship of Christ, Cen­ten­ni­al Con­ven­tion Re­port, ed­it­ed by W. R. War­ren (Cin­cin­na­ti, Ohio: Stan­dard Pub­lish­ing Com­pa­ny, 1910), pp. 472-76
• Day of the Evan­gel­ists, Cen­ten­ni­al Con­ven­tion Re­port, ed­it­ed by W. R. War­ren (Cin­cin­na­ti, Ohio: Stan­dard Pub­lish­ing Com­pa­ny, 1910), p. 585
• Closing Ses­sion, Cen­ten­ni­al Con­ven­tion Re­port, ed­it­ed by W. R. War­ren (Cin­cin­na­ti, Ohio: Stan­dard Pub­lish­ing Com­pa­ny, 1910), pp. 601-14
• The King of Glo­ry, with Dan­i­el Town­er (Chi­ca­go, Il­li­nois: The Charles Reign Sco­ville Pub­lish­ing Com­pa­ny, cir­ca 1916)
• Wonder Hymns of Faith, with John Stur­gis & Will­iam Hack­le­man (Cin­cin­na­ti, Ohio: The Stan­dard Pub­lish­ing Com­pa­ny, cir­ca 1923)

1. Christ Is King
2. Great Change, The
3. King of Glo­ry, The
4. Lord, Is It I?
5. There Will Be No Tears in Par­a­dise