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.

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Texts by Avis B. Christiansen (125)AsAuthority LanguagesInstancessort descending
Are you discouraged and burdened with careAvis M. Christiansen (Author)1
At the place of prayer we wait todayAvis M. Christiansen (Author)1
Come and let us lift our hearts in songs of praiseAvis M. Christiansen (Author)1
في مسيري مع يسوعيAvis B. Christiansen (Author)Arabic1
From the matchless splendor of the Father's throneAvis M. Burgeson (Author)English1
Glory and power and dominion be unto TheeAvis M. Christiansen (Author)1
Harvest time is ready, see, the fields are whiteAvis B. Christiansen (Author)1
I cannot understand the matchless graceAvis B. Christiansen (Author)English1
See Him, Jesus, the Savior who came to earthAvis M. Christiansen (Author)1
Sing His praise, the King of GloryAvis B. Christiansen (Author)1
Sólo Cristo satisfaceAvis B. Christiansen (Author)Spanish1
Somewhere the sun is shiningAvis B. Christiansen (Author (v. 2, 3, and refrain))English1
Whisper a prayer in the morning, Just at the break of dayAvis Christiansen (Author)English1
Would you dwell today in a sunlit wayAvis B. Christiansen (Author)English1
Would you like to travel up the highwayAvis B. Christiansen (Author)1
Caminando estoy con rumbo a SionAvis B. Christiansen (Author)Spanish2
充滿我心境,榮耀異象 (Chōngmǎn wǒ xīnjìng, róngyào yì xiàng)Avis M. B. Christiansen (Author)Chinese2
Day by day by your words and actionsAvis B. Christiansen (Author)English2
Dark grows the night of sinAvis B. Christiansen (Author)English2
From heaven's glory Jesus cameAvis M. Burgeson (Author)2
God, the Father, once plantedA. M. Christianson (Author)2
He careth for me! My heart on this promise can restAvis B. Christiansen (Author)English2
何等榮耀!因主血救贖Avis B. Christiansen (Author)Chinese2
How sweet is the love of my Savior to me (Christiansen)Avis B. Christiansen (Author)English2
I'm walking with my Savior, In His presence everAvis M. Burgeson (Author)English2
In the midst of turmoil I have peace withinAvis B. Christiansen (Author)English2
In the paths of sin and darknessAvis M. Burgeson (Author)2
I've pitched my tent t'wards the promised landMrs. Avis Christiansen (Author)English2
O holy night the stars are brightly shiningAvis B. Christiansen (Editor)English2
O precious is the promise God has givenAvis B. Christiansen (Author)2
Oh Salvador, al contemplarAvis B. Christiansen (Author)Spanish2
Only glory by and byAvis B. Christiansen (Author)English2
Only Jesus, only Jesus, Only He can satisfyAvis B. Christiansen (Author)English2
Praise his name, Christ the Lord of hostsA. M. Christiansen (Author)2
Sad and weary and worn with weepingAvis M. Burgeson (Author)2
Shadows of evening are fallingAvis B. Christiansen (Author)2
The one who once walked on the watersAvis Burgeson (Author)2
There is a place of contentment and peaceAvis B. Christiansen (Author)English2
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
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
Walking with Jesus, O fellowship so sweetAvis Burgeson Christiansen (Author)2
What makes me feel like singing when the world is dark without?Avis M. Christiansen (Author)English2
When days are weary and life seems in vainAvis B. Christiansen (Author)English2
Who have I on earth, Lord JesusAvis B. Christiansen (Author)2
我已尋獲主耶穌作避難所 (Wǒ yǐ xún huò zhǔ yēsū zuò bìnàn suǒ)Avis M. B. Christiansen (Author)Chinese2
A glorious Lord and KingAvis B. Christiansen (Author)3
All I need to know of heaven is that Jesus will be thereAvis B. Christiansen (Author)English3
Christ the Lord was born in BethlehemAvis B. Christiansen (Author)3
Give me thine heart, That glad and glorious dayAvis Burgeson Christiansen (Author)3
God's word shall standAvis B. Christiansen (Author)3
Grant me the consciousness, Lord, of thy presenceAvis B. Christiansen (Author)3
He made me for himself aloneAvis B. Christiansen (Author)3
I cannot tell the path that lies aheadAvis B. Christiansen (Author)3
I would be a loyal soldierAvis B. Christiansen (Author)3
I'm abiding today in Canaan landAvis Burgeson (Author)English3
I'm traveling to a fair countryAvis B. Christiansen (Author)3
I'm under the blood of CalvaryAvis B. Christensen (Author)English3
In a lowly manger laidAvis B. Christiansen (Author)3
In the light of thy love on Calvary shownAvis B. Christiansen (Author)3
Let me see thee, blessed JesusAvis B. Christiansen (Author)3
Lift your eyes unto the heavens, ye who wait the Lord's returnAvis B. Christiansen (Author)English3
Lift your heads and see the fields of goldAvis Burgeson Christiansen (Author)3
Lost in the love of Jesus, How sweet in that love to abideAvis M. Christiansen (Author)English3
My heavenly Father cares for even meAvis B. Christiansen (Author)3
O come with me into that garden stillAvis B. Christiansen (Author)3
O'er the world a gloom had fallenAvis B. Christiansen (Author)3
Old days have all goneAvis B. Christiansen (Author)3
Praise the name of Christ, the Lamb of CalvaryAvis Burgeson Christiansen (Author)3
Sing of the mighty love divineAvis B. Christiansen (Author)3
There's a song in my heart from heaven aboveAvis B. Christiansen (Author)3
What a wonderful friend is JesusAvis B. Christiansen (Author)3
What joy divine it is to knowAvis Burgeson Christiansen (Author)3
When Jesus calls I will answerAvis B. Christiansen (Author)3
Where can I go when I'm lonelyAvis B. Christiansen (Author)3
While the world is rushing blindlyAvis B. Christiansen (Author)3
Wonderful, wonderful Savior, all glory to TheeAvis B. Christiansen (Author)3
Beholding Thee, Lord JesusAvis B. Christiansen (Author)4
Hacia el Calvario, mi SalvadorAvis B. Christiansen, 1895-1985 (Author)Spanish4
I was a sinner, no hope could I seeAvis M. Christianson (Author)English4
“¿Qué debo hacer?”, temblando preguntóAvis B. Christiansen (Author)Spanish4
Rejoice, my soul, rejoice and singAvis B. Christiansen (Author)4
Sweet is the walk with Jesus belowAvis B. Christiansen (Author)4
We shall gather in the morning when our race on earth is runAvis B. Christiansen (Author)English4
When tempted and tried and discouragedAvis B. Christiansen (Author)4
When your cross seems heavy, and the pathway steepAvis M. Christiansen (Author)English4
As far as the east is removed from the westAvis B. Christiansen (Author)5
I find the Lord is blessingAvis Burgeson Christiansen (Author)5
Jesus I come now confessingAvis Burgeson Christiansen (Author)5
Lord, keep me trusting Thee day after dayAvis B. Christiansen (Author)English5
My Savior leads, in tender love he leadethAvis B. Christiansen (Author)5
O Savior, as my eyes beholdAvis B. Christiansen, 1895- (Author)English5
Only a few more shadows, only a few more sighsAvis B. Christiansen (Author)5
Whether sowing seedAvis B. Christiansen (Author)5
While you are heedlessly going your wayAvis B. Christiansen (Author)5
I am traveling toward the land of dayAvis Burgeson Christiansen (Author)6
I was a sinner, lost in the darknessAvis Burgeson Christiansen (Author)English6
I've a blest companion ever at my sideAvis Burgeson Christiansen (Author)6
O wonderful name, how my heart thrills to hear itAvis B. Christiansen (Author)English6
When discouraged with fearAvis Burgeson Christiansen (Author)6
How my soul with holy rapture thrillsAvis Burgeson Christiansen (Author)English7
Jesus calls for volunteersAvis B. Christiansen (Author)7
Nearer to Jesus I now abideAvis B. Christiansen (Author)7
There's a melody that's so sweet to meAvis B. Christiansen (Author)English7
'Tis a great salvation that hath reached my soulAvis B. Christiansen (Author)English7
Sing the praise of God the FatherAvis Burgeson Christiansen (Author)8
In the shadow of the cross I have found a safe retreatAvis Burgeson Christiansen (Author)English9
Come, come, ye saints, no toil nor labor fearAvis B. Christiansen (Adapter)English10
When I, O Lord, behold thy vast creationA. B. Christiansen (Translator)English10
O the love that gave my Lord to die on CalvaryAvis B. Christiansen (Author)English11
My hope blessed Jesus is anchored in TheeAvis B. Christiansen (Author)English12
Fill all my vision, Savior, I prayAvis B. Christiansen (Author)English15
It is glory just to walk with Him whose blood has ransomed meAvis M. Christiansen (Author)English15
Only one life to offer Jesus my Lord and KingAvis B. Christiansen, 1895- (Author)15
There may be tears to shed as we travel homeAvis B. Christiansen (Author)English15
When I opened my heart's door to JesusAvis B. Christiansen (Author)English15
I look at the cross upon CalvaryChristian B. Anson (Author)English16
I've found a refuge from life's care in JesusAvis B. Christiansen (Author)English18
Out of the depths to the glory aboveAvis B. Christiansen (Author)English22
Sweet is the hope that is thrilling my soulAvis Burgeson Christiansen (Author)English23
Wonderful love that rescued meConstance B. Reid (Author)English23
What must I do, the trembling jailor criedAvis B. Christiansen (Author)English29
I was straying when Christ found meAvis B. Christiansen (Author)English36
Up Calvary's mountain one dreadful mornAvis B. Christiansen (Author)English72

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