Christie taught sing­ing class­es from 1871 to 1874, which led him to a mu­sic­al ca­reer. He stu­died un­der Rig­don Mc­In­tosh, who at the time was in the mu­sic de­part­ment at Van­der­bilt Un­i­ver­si­ty. Christie re­mained in Ten­nes­see un­til 1876, when he re­turned to West Vir­gin­ia. Around 1877, he con­duct­ed a two month course at the Con­cord Nor­mal School, in Athens, West Vir­gin­ia, fol­lowed by a sim­i­lar course in Prince­ton, West Vir­gin­ia; Rur­al Re­treat, Vir­gin­ia (1878); and four cours­es in Snow­ville, Vir­gin­ia (1879-1880); and a nine month course at Rur­al Re­treat, Vir­gin­ia (1881). In 1881, he stu­died for a while at the Com­mer­cial Coll­ege at Ken­tucky Un­i­ver­si­ty, and in 1882, moved to Mil­li­gan Coll­ege, Ten­nes­see, where he event­u­al­ly rose to serve on the Board of Di­rect­ors. In 1894, Christie be­came mu­sic ed­it­or for the Stand­ard Pub­lish­ing Com­pa­ny in Cin­cin­na­ti, Ohio. His works in­clude:

• Favorite Songs (co-ed­it­or), 1876
• Gospel Light, 1894
• Songs of Service (music ed­it­or) (Atlanta, Georgia: R. M. McIntosh Co., 1896)
• The Christ­ian Church Hymn­al, 1906
• Songs of Evan­gel­ism, 1911
• Worship and Ser­vice (Cin­cin­na­ti, Ohio: The Stand­ard Pub­lish­ing Com­pa­ny, 1916)

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Music

1. Let Him Come In