Avis+M.+Christianson

= Avis M. Christianson =
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Encouraged by her grand­mo­ther, a god­ly wo­man who loved the mu­sic of the soul as ex­pressed in verse, Avis wrote her first po­em at age ten. Then one Sun­day morn­ing in Moody Church, as she list­ened to a new song by [|Har­ry Loes], the Lord re­mind­ed her that the tal­ent en­trusted to her be­longed to Him. Her im­med­i­ate long­ing to ex­press His love and bless­ing re­sult­ed in two hymns. One of them, “That Is Far Enough for Me,” was quick­ly set to mu­sic by [|Dan­iel Town­er], then di­rect­or of mu­sic for the Moo­dy Bi­ble In­sti­tute. In 1917, Avis mar­ried Ernest C. Christ­i­an­sen, who la­ter be­came vice pres­i­dent in charge of in­vest­ments for Moo­dy Bi­ble In­sti­tute. In spite of ful­fill­ing the ma­ny du­ties of a bu­sy home­maker, she con­tin­ued to write with un­fail­ing zeal. In ad­di­tion to her hymns, she pub­lished two books of po­e­try: In the fore­word to her first book of po­e­try, the le­gend­ary pas­tor and au­thor H. A. Iron­side wrote: > Avis B. Christ­iansen is the gifted au­thor of ma­ny of our sweetest gospel songs. By means of these her name is known around the world, for ma­ny of these de­light­ful ly­rics have been trans­lat­ed in­to var­i­ous lan­guages. She is a mod­est, re­tir­ing per­son whom few get to know be­yond the cir­cle of her im­med­i­ate fam­i­ly and friends. With a ve­ry keen ap­pre­hen­sion of spir­i­tu­al re­al­i­ties, and a clear un­der­stand­ing of the great truths re­vealed in the Word of God, her hymns and po­ems are eminently Script­ur­al and soul-up­lift­ing.
 * His Faithfulness, 1949
 * Avis Christ­iansen’s Most-Loved Po­ems, 1962

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