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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)


Texts by Thomas Lake Harris (48)sort descendingAsAuthority LanguagesInstances
A new religion shakes the earthThomas Lake Harris (Author)2
As I mused, in fancy friendlessT. L. Harris (Author)1
Behold my country, hast thou ever trodThomas L. Harris (Author)English1
Beneath the churchyard's grassy moldT. L. Harris (Author)1
Death is the fading of a cloudHarris (Author)English5
Death is the gate to endless joyThomas Lake Harris (Author)2
From all who dwell in heaven aboveHarris (Author)English5
Glory to God, this advent mornThomas L. Harris (Author)English2
Hast thou ever, with quickened senseT. L. Harris (Author)English1
Here shall Christ be all in allThomas L. Harris (Author)English1
Holy Lord in pure devotionThomas L. Harris (Author)English0
I saw a spirit, godlike, vast and gloriousThomas Lake Harris (Author)1
If thou hast dried the mourner's tearT. L. Harris (Author)English1
In every human mind we seeThomas Lake Harris (Author)3
In vain the name of Christ we bearT. L. Harris (Author)English2
It is a harp of many stringsT. L. Harris (Author)English1
Jesus Christ, Thou only SaviorT. L. Harris (Author)English1
Life is a wakening into spheres ElysianThomas Lake Harris (Author)English2
Life is the hour that lies betweenThomas Lake Harris (Author)2
Look up O man behold the sameThomas Lake Harris (Author)1
Lord, thy church hath never lostThomas Lake Harris (Author)English1
Night prays with rosary of starsThomas Lake Harris (Author)English3
O earth, thy past is crowned and consecratedHarris (Author)English4
O lone is the spirit on life's troubled oceanThomas Lake Harris (Author)1
One God there is, which God is oursThomas Lake Harris (Author)0
One God there is, who reigns aloneT. L. Harris (Author)1
Peace be thine, the angels greet theeT. L. Harris (Author)English2
Pour out thy inmost love like wineT. L. Harris (Author)English1
Sweet are the ties that bind in oneThomas Lake Harris (Author)3
The angel of freedom is callingThomas Lake Harris (Author)English2
The brightness of thy gloryT. L. Harris (Author)English1
The outward world is dark and drearThomas Lake Harris (Author)2
The shadow flies, the night is doneT. L. Harris (Author)English1
The stars have lit their golden lightsThomas Lake Harris (Author)1
The stream of love is deep and stillT. L. Harris (Author)English1
The Word is my pillar by day and by nightT. L. Harris (Author)English1
There is no death, 'tis but a shadeThomas Lake Harris (Author)English1
These are the deathless palmsThomas Lake Harris (Author)1
They are the victors, they aloneThomas L. Harris (Author)English1
This common earth, by mortals trodT. L. Harris (Author)English2
Through midnight ages dark and loneThomas Lake Harris (Author)English1
Upon Judea’s midnight plainsThomas L. Harris (Author)English1
When in the busy haunts of menThomas Lake Harris (Author)4
When sorrow on the spirit feedsThomas Lake Harris (Author)3
Where is the church of God belowT. L. Harris (Author)English1
With inner sight our hearts beholdT. L. Harris (Author)English1
Within the sacred scriptures shineT. L. Harris (Author)English1
Within this holy volume liesT. L. Harris (Author)1

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