Avis B. Christiansen

Avis B. Christiansen
Avis Burgeson Christiansen
Short Name: Avis B. Christiansen
Full Name: Christiansen, Avis B., 1895-1985
Birth Year: 1895
Death Year: 1985

Avis Marguerite Burgeson was born in 1895 and lived in Chicago all her life. She attended the Moody Church, pastored for many years by Dr. Harry Ironside. In 1917, Avis Burgeson married Ernest Christiansen who later became a vice president of Moody Bible Institute. She was a modest and retiring woman, and sometimes used pen names: Avis Burgesson, Christian B. Anson and Constance B. Reid. She began writing poems in childhood, and before her death in 1985 had written thousands of them. She died in 1985.

NN, Hymnary


Texts by Avis B. Christiansen (124)AsAuthority Languagessort descendingInstances
A glorious Lord and KingAvis Burgeson Christiansen (Author)3
Are you discouraged and burdened with careAvis M. Christiansen (Author)1
As far as the east is removed from the westAvis B. Christiansen (Author)5
At the place of prayer we wait todayAvis M. Christiansen (Author)1
Beholding Thee, Lord JesusAvis Burgeson Christiansen (Author)4
Christ the Lord was born in BethlehemAvis B. Christiansen (Author)3
Come and let us lift our hearts in songs of praiseAvis M. Christiansen (Author)1
From heaven's glory Jesus cameAvis M. Burgeson (Author)2
Give me thine heart, That glad and glorious dayAvis B. Christiansen (Author)3
Glory and power and dominion be unto TheeAvis M. Christiansen (Author)1
God, the Father, once plantedA. M. Christianson (Author)2
God's word shall standAvis B. Christiansen (Author)3
Grant me the consciousness, Lord, of thy presenceAvis B. Christiansen (Author)3
Harvest time is ready, see, the fields are whiteAvis B. Christiansen (Author)1
He made me for himself aloneAvis B. Christiansen (Author)3
I am traveling toward the land of dayAvis B. Christiansen (Author)6
I cannot tell the path that lies aheadAvis B. Christiansen (Author)3
I find the Lord is blessingAvis B. Christiansen (Author)5
I would be a loyal soldierAvis B. Christiansen (Author)3
I'm traveling to a fair countryAvis B. Christiansen (Author)3
In a lowly manger laidAvis B. Christiansen (Author)3
In the light of thy love on Calvary shownAvis Burgeson Christiansen (Author)3
In the midst of turmoil I have peace withinAvis B. Christiansen (Author)2
In the paths of sin and darknessAvis B. Christiansen (Author)2
In the shadow of the cross I have found a safe retreatAvis B. Christiansen (Author)9
I've a blest companion ever at my sideAvis Burgeson Christiansen (Author)6
Jesus calls for volunteersAvis Burgeson Christiansen (Author)7
Jesus I come now confessingAvis Burgeson Christiansen (Author)5
Let me see thee, blessed JesusAvis Burgeson Christiansen (Author)3
Lift your heads and see the fields of goldAvis B. Christiansen (Author)3
My heavenly Father cares for even meAvis B. Christiansen (Author)3
My Savior leads, in tender love he leadethAvis B. Christiansen (Author)5
Nearer to Jesus I now abideAvis B. Christiansen (Author)7
O come with me into that garden stillAvis B. Christiansen (Author)3
O precious is the promise God has givenAvis B. Christiansen (Author)2
O'er the world a gloom had fallenAvis B. Christiansen (Author)3
Old days have all goneAvis B. Christiansen (Author)3
Only a few more shadows, only a few more sighsAvis B. Christiansen (Author)5
Only one life to offer Jesus my Lord and KingAvis B. Christiansen (Author)15
Praise his name, Christ the Lord of hostsA. M. Christiansen (Author)2
Praise the name of Christ, the Lamb of CalvaryAvis B. Christiansen (Author)3
Rejoice, my soul, rejoice and singAvis B. Christiansen (Author)4
Sad and weary and worn with weepingAvis M. Burgeson (Author)2
See Him, Jesus, the Savior who came to earthAvis M. Christiansen (Author)1
Shadows of evening are fallingAvis B. Christiansen (Author)2
Sing His praise, the King of GloryAvis B. Christiansen (Author)1
Sing of the mighty love divineAvis B. Christiansen (Author)3
Sing the praise of God the FatherAvis B. Christiansen (Author)8
Sweet is the walk with Jesus belowAvis B. Christiansen (Author)4
The one who once walked on the watersAvis B. Christiansen (Author)2
There's a melody that's so sweet to meAvis B. Christiansen (Author)7
There's a song in my heart from heaven aboveAvis B. Christiansen (Author)3
Walking with Jesus, O fellowship so sweetAvis B. Christiansen (Author)2
What a wonderful friend is JesusAvis B. Christiansen (Author)3
What joy divine it is to knowAvis B. Christiansen (Author)3
When discouraged with fearAvis Burgeson Christiansen (Author)6
When I opened my heart's door to JesusAvis B. Christiansen (Author)15
When Jesus calls I will answerAvis B. Christiansen (Author)3
When tempted and tried and discouragedAvis Burgeson Christiansen (Author)4
Where can I go when I'm lonelyAvis B. Christiansen (Author)3
Whether sowing seedAvis B. Christiansen (Author)5
While the world is rushing blindlyAvis B. Christiansen (Author)3
While you are heedlessly going your wayAvis B. Christiansen (Author)5
Who have I on earth, Lord JesusAvis B. Christiansen (Author)2
Wonderful, wonderful Savior, all glory to TheeAvis B. Christiansen (Author)3
Would you like to travel up the highwayAvis B. Christiansen (Author)1
All I need to know of heaven is that Jesus will be thereAvis B. Christiansen (Author)English3
Come, come, ye saints, no toil nor labor fearAvis B. Christiansen (Author)English10
Day by day by your words and actionsAvis B. Christiansen (Author)English2
Fill all my vision, Savior, I prayAvis B. Christiansen (Author)English15
From the matchless splendor of the Father's throneAvis M. Burgeson (Author)English1
He careth for me! My heart on this promise can restAvis B. Christiansen (Author)English2
How my soul with holy rapture thrillsAvis B. Christiansen (Author)English7
How sweet is the love of my Savior to me (Christiansen)Avis B. Christiansen (Author)English2
I cannot understand the matchless graceAvis B. Christiansen (Author)English1
I look at the cross upon CalvaryChristian B. Anson (Author)English16
I was a sinner, lost in the darknessAvis B. Christiansen (Author)English6
I was a sinner, no hope could I seeAvis M. Christianson (Author)English4
I was straying when Christ found meAvis B. Christiansen (Author)English37
I'm abiding today in Canaan landAvis M. Christiansen (Author)English3
I'm under the blood of CalvaryAvis B. Christensen (Author)English3
I'm walking with my Savior, In His presence everAvis M. Burgeson (Author)English2
It is glory just to walk with Him whose blood has ransomed meAvis B. Christiansen, 1895- (Author)English15
I've pitched my tent t'wards the promised landMrs. Avis Christiansen (Author)English2
Lift your eyes unto the heavens, ye who wait the Lord's returnAvis B. Christiansen (Author)English3
Lord, keep me trusting Thee day after dayAvis B. Christiansen (Author)English5
Lost in the love of Jesus, How sweet in that love to abideAvis B. Christiansen (Author)English3
My hope blessed Jesus is anchored in TheeAvis B. Christiansen (Author)English11
O holy night the stars are brightly shiningAvis B. Christiansen (Editor)English2
O Savior, as my eyes beholdAvis B. Christiansen, 1895- (Author)English5
O the love that gave my Lord to die on CalvaryAvis B. Christiansen (Author)English11
O wonderful name, how my heart thrills to hear itAvis B. Christiansen (Author)English6
Only Jesus, only Jesus, Only He can satisfyAvis B. Christiansen (Author)English2
Out of the depths to the glory aboveAvis B. Christiansen (Author)English22
Somewhere the sun is shiningAvis B. Christiansen (Author (v. 2, 3, and refrain))English1
Sweet is the hope that is thrilling my soulAvis M. Christiansen (Author)English23
There is a place of contentment and peaceAvis B. Christiansen (Author)English2
There may be tears to shed as we travel homeAvis B. Christiansen (Author)English15
There's a song my soul keeps singingAvis B. Christiansen (Author)English2
There's a song within me springing night and dayAvis Burgeson Christiansen (Author)English2
'Tis a great salvation that hath reached my soulAvis M. Christiansen (Author)English7
To the youth of the world comes a challengeAvis B. Christiansen (Author)English2
'Twas at Calvary that Jesus bled and diedAvis B. Christiansen (Author)English2
Up Calvary's mountain one dreadful mornAvis Burgeson Christiansen (Author)English72
We shall gather in the morning when our race on earth is runAvis B. Christiansen (Author)English4
What makes me feel like singing when the world is dark without?Avis M. Christiansen (Author)English2
What must I do, the trembling jailor criedAvis B. Christiansen (Author)English28
When days are weary and life seems in vainAvis B. Christiansen (Author)English2
When I, O Lord, behold thy vast creationAvis B. Christiansen (Transaltor)English10
When your cross seems heavy, and the pathway steepAvis M. Christiansen (Author)English4
Whisper a prayer in the morning, Just at the break of dayAvis Christiansen (Author)English1
Wonderful love that rescued meConstance B. Reid (Author)English23
Would you dwell today in a sunlit wayAvis B. Christiansen (Author)English1
في مسيري مع يسوعيAvis B. Christiansen (Author)Arabic1
I've found a refuge from life's care in JesusAvis B. Christiansen (Author)c, Chinese18
充滿我心境,榮耀異象 (Chōngmǎn wǒ xīnjìng, róngyào yì xiàng)Avis M. B. Christiansen (Author)Chinese2
何等榮耀!因主血救贖Avis M. B. Christiansen (Author)Chinese2
我已尋獲主耶穌作避難所 (Wǒ yǐ xún huò zhǔ yēsū zuò bìnàn suǒ)Avis B. Christiansen (Author)Chinese2
Only glory by and byAvis B. Christiansen (Author)Engish2
Caminando estoy con rumbo a SionAvis B. Christiansen (Author)Spanish2
Hacia el Calvario, mi SalvadorAvis B. Christiansen (Author)Spanish4
Oh Salvador, al contemplarAvis B. Christiansen (Author)Spanish2
“¿Qué debo hacer?”, temblando preguntóAvis B. Christiansen (Author)Spanish4
Sólo Cristo satisfaceAvis B. Christiansen (Author)Spanish1

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