Born: March 31, 1874, Wash­ing­ton, DC.

Died: March 27, 1955, Eure­ka Springs, Ar­kan­sas.

Buried: In­ter­na­tion­al Or­der of Odd Fel­lows Cem­e­te­ry, Eure­ka Springs, Ar­kan­sas.

After at­tend­ing col­lege in Bat­tle Creek, Mi­chi­gan, Har­ris pro­duced his first hymn­al in Bos­ton, Mass­a­chu­setts, in 1902. He then moved to Chi­ca­go, Il­li­nois at the in­vi­ta­tion of Pe­ter Bil­horn, and in 1932 to Eu­re­ka Springs, Ar­kan­sas. He com­posed and com­piled a num­ber of works. He was well known lo­cal­ly as he walked around with a can­vas bag full of hand­books for sale. His works in­clude:

Sources

Lyrics

  1. All That Thrills the Soul (Who can cheer the heart like Je­sus) (© 1931)
  2. Awakening, The
  3. Caught Up
  4. Coming for Me
  5. Coming Up the Road
  6. Eternal Rest
  7. Glory in the High­est
  8. He’s Com­ing Soon
  9. I Love Him Better Ev­ery Day (© 1926)
  10. I Love His Ap­pear­ing
  11. Jehovah’s Prom­ise (© 1931)
  12. Jesus Bears You on His Heart (© 1923)
  13. Jesus Is True
  14. King of Glo­ry, The
  15. Lift Up the Voice
  16. Look for the Beau­ti­ful
  17. Looking for that Bless­èd Hope
  18. More Abun­dant­ly
  19. My Fa­ther’s House
  20. Oil (© 1926)
  21. Peerless Name, The
  22. Pentecost in My Soul
  23. Some Joy­ful Day
  24. Song of Love, A (© 1951)
  25. They Come (© 1941)
  26. This Great Wide World
  27. To Whom Can I Go?
  28. What He Has Done for Others (©1914)

Translations

  1. Trust

Music

  1. Crimea
  2. Critchlow
  3. Eternal Light
  4. Gladden
  5. Hide Thou Me (© 1926)
  6. I Will
  7. Leffingwell
  8. Perry Street
  9. Risen Lord
  10. Sunny-Faced Christ­ian, A