Introduction

Biography

Flavil was the son of Ro­bert Tooms Hall and Sar­ah Do­lis­ka Mills. He mar­ried twice, to Mar­tha Jay King of Ten­nes­see (died 1913) and Ber­tha Will­iams (marr­ied 1919).

He at­tend­ed the Nash­ville Bi­ble School, and be­gan preach­ing in Tri­on, Georg­ia, in 1896.

Hall start­ed sub­mit­ting ar­ti­cles to the Gos­pel Ad­vo­cate ear­ly in his ca­reer, and 1908–12 worked on the staff of Stan­ford Cham­ber’s Chris­tian Word and Work out of New Or­leans, Lou­isi­ana. In 1913, he be­gan writ­ing for the Chris­tian Lead­er.

Around 1911, Hall start­ed ex­pand­ing his ev­an­gel­is­tic min­is­try north­ward, tra­vel­ing to the Ohio Val­ley, and lat­er as far as Ca­na­da.

In 1928, Hall moved to Pon­ti­ac, Mi­chi­gan, where he stayed two years un­til re­turn­ing to Georg­ia. In 1931, he moved to Port­land, In­di­ana, and lat­er to Cin­cin­na­ti, Ohio; Mill­port, Ala­ba­ma; and Pine Apple, Ala­ba­ma (1940–52).

Works

• The Gos­pel Mes­sage in Song (Gos­pel Mes­sage Pub­lish­ing: 1908)
• Redemption’s Way in Song (Cin­cin­na­ti, Ohio: Fred L. Rowe, 1911)
• Pearls of Truth (Cin­cin­na­ti, Ohio: Fred L. Rowe, 1913)
• Jesus in Song (Cin­cin­na­ti, Ohio: Fred L. Rowe, 1915)
• The Cross and Re­sur­rect­ion in Song, with Sam­uel H. Hall, 1917
• Ninety and Nine Liv­ing Songs (Cin­cin­na­ti, Ohio: Fred L. Rowe, 1922)
• Hall’s Ru­di­ments of Mu­sic (Cin­cin­na­ti, Ohio: Fred L. Rowe, 1925)
• Truth and Hope (In Song), 1926
• Song Heart Thrills (Cin­cin­na­ti, Ohio: Fred L. Rowe, 1932)
• The More Per­fect Gos­pel Hym­nal (At­lan­ta, Geor­gia: J. M. Hen­son Mu­sic, 1946)
• Pearls of Grace and Glo­ry (Pine Ap­ple, Ala­ba­ma: pri­vate­ly pub­lished, 1950)