F. B. Harris

Short Name: F. B. Harris
Full Name: Harris, F. B. (Flora Best)
Birth Year: 1850
Death Year: 1909

Birth: 1850, USA
Death: Sep., 1909

Flora Lydia (Best) Harris was the daughter of Dr. David and Elizabeth (Lockart) Best. She was the 1st wife of Rev. Bishop Merriman Colbert Harris. He was a minister in the Pittsburgh Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church. She was a writer and wrote on Japanese themes. In 1891 she translated the 10th century classic 'Tosa Niki' ('Diary or Log of a Journey From Tosa to Kyoto').

Mary Jane Haight-Eckert on Find A Grave web site


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Texts by F. B. Harris (45)sort descendingAsAuthority LanguagesInstances
A burden was laid on my spiritFlora L. Best Harris (Author)English3
A pallid dawn is stealingFlora L. Best Harris (Author)English0
Above earth's grief and sighingFlora B. Harris (Author)English3
Across the waters faringFlora Best Harris (Author)English1
As one who lives amid the deadFlora B. Harris (Author)English1
At the beautiful gate of the temple As beggars and maimed we awaitFlora Best Harris (Author)English4
Aus dieser Welt VerderbenF. B. Harris (Author)German2
Glory, glory, praises bringingFlora L. Best Harris (Author)1
He comes, the holy Christ childFlora L. Best Harris (Author)1
Heralds of Jesus, go in mightFlora B. Harris (Author)English2
How sweet 'twill be to find the crossing-placeFlora B. Harris (Author)English1
I have read of a land whose inhabitants sayFlora L. Best Harris (Author)English0
I have told the story of JesusFlora L. Best Harris (Author)English1
I will rise, I will rise, I will rise and goFlora B. Harris (Author)English3
I've nothing to bring to Thee, JesusFlora L. Best Harris (Author)English3
Loud is the voice of the trumpetFlora L. Best Harris (Author)1
Midnight stars are looking downwardFlora L. Best Harris (Author)1
My soul is blindFlora L. Best Harris (Author)1
Night and tempest are around usFlora L. Best Harris (Author)1
Not for my soul's repentingFlora L. Best Harris (Author)English1
O Lord of love, rejected, we hail Thee as our own!Flora L. Best Harris (Author)English1
Of the people none were with HimFlora L. Best Harris (Author)English0
On the cross, rejected MasterFlora B. Harris (Author)English1
Preserve my Jesus, O preserveFlora L. Best Harris (Author)2
Ring, ring the bells over ocean and shoreFlora L. Best (Author)English4
See, the purple wine is flowingFlora L. Best Harris (Author)1
Strike your harps to richer musicFlora L. Best Harris (Author)1
Swift as storm wind from the skiesFlora L. Best Harris (Author)English0
The flush of morn is on the mountainsFlora L. Best Harris (Author)English5
The golden sun is shiningFlora L. Best Harris (Author)1
There are songs of joy that I loved to singFlora L. Best Harris (Author)English45
There dawns a golden visionFlora L. Best Harris (Author)1
There is beauty at dawn where the darkness hath fledFlora B. Harris (Author)English1
Though clouds may rise in the distant skiesFlora L. Best Harris (Author)1
Though the clouds may riseFlora L. Best Harris (Author)1
To Thy cross, dear Christ, I'm clingingFlora L. Best Harris (Author)English22
Wake, O Zion, wake to gladnessFlora L. Best Harris (Author)1
Wanderer from thy Father's mansionFlora L. Best Harris (Author)English3
Was zittert dein Herz nun im LeideFlora L. Best Harris (Author)German0
We are sitting by the waysideFlora L. Best Harris (Author)English1
We waited by the waysideFlora L. Best Harris (Author)English1
We weary on our journeyFlora L. Best Harris (Author)2
What shall separate us from the love that bought us?Mrs. Flora B. Harris (Author)English4
When the rosy lights of morningFlora L. Best Harris (Author)2
Yonder rise the hillsFlora L. Best Harris (Author)1
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