If You Knew Him

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Wanderer out on a desert dreary

Author: Thoro Harris
Tune: [Wanderer out on a desert dreary]
Published in 2 hymnals

Author: Thoro Harris

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, and was well known locally as he walked around with a canvas bag full of handbooks for sale. His works include: Light and Life Songs, with William Olmstead & William Kirkpatrick (Chicago, Illinois: S. K. J. Chesbro, 1904) Little Branches, with George J. Meyer & Howard E. Smith (Chicago, Illi… Go to person page >

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First Line:	Wanderer out on a desert dreary
Title:	If You Knew Him
Author:	Thoro Harris
Language:	English
Refrain First Line:	You would love Him if you but knew Him
Publication Date:	1916
Copyright:	Public Domain