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Avis B. Christiansen

1895 - 1985 Author of "Only One Life to Offer" in Hymns for the Living Church 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

Merrill Dunlop

1905 - 2002 Composer of "ONLY ONE LIFE" in Hymns for the Living Church Merrill Everett Dunlop Born: May 9, 1905, Chi­ca­go, Il­li­nois. Died: June 15, 2002. Dunlop was ed­u­cat­ed at Cen­tral YMCA Coll­ege, Chi­ca­go (BA) and the Moo­dy Bi­ble In­sti­tute (grad­u­at­ed 1926). He played the pi­a­no and or­gan at Moo­dy Church (1921-24), and served as di­rect­or of mu­sic at the Chi­ca­go Gos­pel Ta­ber­na­cle (1926-53). Bur­ton Bos­worth was his fa­ther-in-law. Dun­lop wrote over 700 hymns and Gos­pel songs, and works in­clud­ing: Songs of a Chris­tian, 1937 New Songs of a Chris­tian, 1941 © The Cyber Hymnal™ (www.hymntime.net/tch)

Avis M. Burgeson

Person Name: Avis M. Christiansen Author of "Only One Life" in Favorites Number 4 See Christiansen, Avis B., 1895-1985

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