Son of Ro­bert T. and Sara­h Do­lis­ka Mills Hall, Fla­vil at­tend­ed the Nash­ville [Ten­nes­see] Bi­ble School. He be­gan preach­ing in Tri­on, Georg­ia, in 1896, and mar­ried Mar­tha Jay King of Ten­nes­see around that time. Mar­tha died in 1913, and Fla­vil mar­ried Ber­tha Will­iams in 1919.

Hall be­gan sub­mit­ting ar­ti­cles to the Gos­pel Ad­vo­cate ear­ly in his career, and from 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 be­gan 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).

Hall’s works in­clude:

• 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 Com­pa­ny, 1946
• Pearls of Grace and Glo­ry (Pine Ap­ple, Al­a­ba­ma: pri­vate­ly pub­lished, 1950)

1. All Hail to King Im­man­u­el
2. As the Two Bro­thers Stood There
3. Be Sure Your Sin Will Find You Out
4. Behold, I Stand at the Door and Knock
5. Blessed Are They Who Die in the Lord
6. Bring the Pre­cious Bi­ble
7. Come, Ye Sin­ners
8. Faith in Je­sus Comes Through His Bless­ed Word
9. Father, Help Us Con­se­crate
10. Glory and Praise to Je­sus, Our Sav­ior
11. Go Forth to the Res­cue, Ye Chris­tians, To­day
12. God Is Call­ing Me, I’m G­oing
13. Holy Spir­it Speaks To­day, The
14. Hope’s Rain­bow of Pro­mise
15. How Sweet to Know, When Time Shall End
16. I Am Think­ing of the Love That Brought Sal­va­tion
17. I Reared My Boy to Be a Sol­dier
18. In Eter­ni­ty’s Morn the Dead Shall Arise
19. In My Child­hood Long Ago
20. In That Day of Bliss When Je­sus Comes
21. In the Cross of Christ I Glo­ry, There Alone
22. In the Pur­suits of Sin­ful Plea­sure
23. In the Teach­ing of Our Lord We Must Abide
24. I’ve a Friend That’s by My Side
25. Jesus Calls for Faith­ful Reap­ers
26. Jesus Left the Joys of Hea­ven
27. Morn of Life Must Pass Away, The
28. O Sin­ner, the Sav­ior Obey
29. O the Grand Old Book Has Stood the Tri­als
30. O Wo­man’s Sym­pa­thy and Love for Him
31. Our Friends in Christ Are Pass­ing
32. Our Sav­ior Is Com­ing the Saints to Re­ward
33. Seek Ye First the King­dom of God
34. Since I Opened My Heart
35. Sing a Sun­shine Song as You Go Along
36. Sinner, Hear the Bless­ed Mes­sage
37. Sinners, You Have Sad­ly Wan­dered
38. There Is Rest in the King­dom of Je­sus
39. There’s a Land of De­light for the Faith­ful
40. Throngs Are Sing­ing, Heart Bells Ring­ing
41. Unto the Liv­ing One I Prayed
42. Wanderer, Hear the In­vi­ta­tion
43. We Are March­ing
44. When the Lord Shall Come in the Great Glad Day

1. Glen Ell­yn