Thomas Lake Harris

Thomas Lake Harris
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Short Name: Thomas Lake Harris
Full Name: Harris, Thomas Lake, 1823-1906
Birth Year: 1823
Death Year: 1906

Harris, Thomas Lake, born May 15, 1823. Under his name three hymns are given in the American Unitarian Hymns of the Spirit, 1864:—(1) "In every human mind we see" (The Soul God's Temple); (2) "Look up, O man, behold the same" (God All in All); (3) "O earth, thy past is crowned and consecrated" (Past, Present and Future).

--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, Appendix, Part II (1907)

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Harris, T. L., p. 1569, ii., was born at Stony Stratford, Bucks, and when three years of age went with his parents to America. He died at New York, March 23, 1006. His hymns were published as Hymns of Spiritual Devotion, N.Y., 1858. In his Preface, he says, "Many of the hymns were verbally communicated by individual spirits." [Rev. James Mearns, M.A.]

--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, New Supplement (1907)

Wikipedia Biography

Thomas Lake Harris (May 15, 1823 – March 23, 1906) was an Anglo-American preacher, spiritualistic prophet, poet, and vintner. Harris is best remembered as the leader of a series of communal religious experiments, culminating with a group called the Brotherhood of the New Life in Santa Rosa, California.

Texts by Thomas Lake Harris (48)sort descendingAsAuthority LanguagesInstances
A new religion shakes the earthThomas Lake Harris (Author)3
As I mused, in fancy friendlessThomas Lake Harris (Author)2
Behold my country, hast thou ever trodThomas L. Harris (Author)English2
Beneath the churchyard's grassy moldT. L. Harris (Author)2
Death is the fading of a cloudThomas Lake Harris (Author)English6
Death is the gate to endless joyThomas Lake Harris (Author)3
From all who dwell in heaven aboveThomas Lake Harris (Author)English6
Glory to God, this advent mornThomas L. Harris (Author)English3
Hast thou ever, with quickened senseT. L. Harris (Author)English2
Here shall Christ be all in allThomas L. Harris (Author)English2
Holy Lord in pure devotionThomas L. Harris (Author)English1
I saw a spirit, godlike, vast and gloriousT. L. Harris (Author)2
If thou hast dried the mourner's tearThomas L. Harris (Author)English2
In every human mind we seeThomas Lake Harris (Author)4
In vain the name of Christ we bearThomas L. Harris (Author)English2
It is a harp of many stringsT. L. Harris (Author)English2
Jesus Christ, Thou only SaviorT. L. Harris (Author)English2
Life is a wakening into spheres ElysianT. L. Harris (Author)English3
Life is the hour that lies betweenThomas Lake Harris (Author)3
Look up O man behold the sameT. L. H. (Author)2
Lord, thy church hath never lostT. L. Harris (Author)English2
Night prays with rosary of starsThomas Lake Harris (Author)English4
O earth, thy past is crowned and consecratedThomas Lake Harris (Author)English5
O lone is the spirit on life's troubled oceanT. L. Harris (Author)2
One God there is, which God is oursThomas Lake Harris (Author)1
One God there is, who reigns aloneT. L. Harris (Author)2
Peace be thine, the angels greet theeThomas Lake Harris (Author)3
Pour out thy inmost love like wineT. L. Harris (Author)English2
Sweet are the ties that bind in oneThomas Lake Harris (Author)4
The angel of freedom is callingT. L. Harris (Author)English3
The brightness of thy gloryThomas L. Harris (Author)English2
The outward world is dark and drearThomas Lake Harris (Author)3
The shadow flies, the night is doneT. L. Harris (Author)English2
The stars have lit their golden lightsT. L. Harris (Author)2
The stream of love is deep and stillThomas L. Harris (Author)English2
The Word is my pillar by day and by nightThomas L. Harris (Author)English2
There is no death, 'tis but a shadeThomas Lake Harris (Author)English2
These are the deathless palmsThomas Lake Harris (Author)2
They are the victors, they aloneThomas L. Harris (Author)English2
This common earth, by mortals trodT. L. Harris (Author)English3
Through midnight ages dark and loneThomas Lake Harris (Author)English2
Upon Judea’s midnight plainsThomas L. Harris (Author)English2
When in the busy haunts of menThomas Lake Harris (Author)5
When sorrow on the spirit feedsThomas Lake Harris (Author)4
Where is the church of God belowThomas L. Harris (Author)English2
With inner sight our hearts beholdT. L. Harris (Author)English2
Within the sacred scriptures shineT. L. Harris (Author)English2
Within this holy volume liesThomas Lake Harris (Author)2

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