1880–1961

Introduction

Born: March 2, 1880 (Find­a­grave; Hall says 1877), Ben­di­go, Aus­tral­ia.

Died: May 8, 1961, Lon­don, Eng­land.

Buried: Lodge Hill Ce­me­te­ry & Cre­ma­tor­i­um, Birm­ing­ham, Eng­land.

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Biography

After at­tend­ing a re­vi­val meet­ing by Reu­ben Tor­rey and Charles Al­ex­an­der, Hark­ness be­came Al­ex­an­der’s pi­an­ist.

He came to Christ short­ly there­af­ter (on a bi­cy­cle, he said), and made se­ver­al round the world tours with Torr­ey and Al­ex­an­der.

Harkness was es­pe­cial­ly well known for his prog­ram The Mu­sic of the Cross, and as the au­thor of cor­res­pon­dence cours­es in hymn play­ing. He wrote ov­er 2,000 hymns and Gos­pel songs in his life­time.

Works

Sources

Lyrics

  1. All Things Work To­geth­er for Our Good
  2. All Through the Jour­ney of Life as You Go
  3. Alone My Sav­ior Drank the Cup
  4. Are We Down­heart­ed?
  5. Are You Bur­dened with a Load of Sin?
  6. Bearing His Cross for Me
  7. As We Read God’s Word
  8. Can the Lord De­pend on You?
  9. Children’s Friend Is Je­sus, The
  10. Close to the Cross My Sav­ior and Lord
  11. Daily I Walk with Je­sus
  12. Do You Love the Bless­ed Sav­ior?
  13. Ever Rag­ing Is the Con­flict
  14. Everlasting Arms Are Un­der­neath Thee, The
  15. Far from God, Away from Je­sus
  16. Fasten Your Eyes up­on Je­sus
  17. Father, Grant Thy Bless­ing, Ere We Go to Rest
  18. Fighting for Right, for the Cause
  19. Give God the Glo­ry, He Hath Done It All
  20. Give Your Heart to Je­sus, He Is Calling You
  21. Goodbye! God Bless You One and All
  22. Hail! All Hail!
  23. Have a Lit­tle Talk with Je­sus
  24. Have You a Bur­den Which No One Can Share?
  25. He Will Keep You from Fall­ing
  26. Hear the Call to Ser­vice as It Sounds
  27. Hide God’s Word in Your Heart
  28. Holy Ghost, Pos­sess Me Now
  29. How I Love the Bi­ble
  30. How Match­less the Love of Je­sus
  31. How My Heart Goes Out to Je­sus
  32. How Wond­rous the Love of My Sav­ior to Me
  33. How Wond­rous the Sto­ry
  34. I Am Free from All Al­arm
  35. I Am In­clud­ed!
  36. I Am Sa­tis­fied with Je­sus
  37. I Can­not Tell Why Christ Should Die for Me
  38. I Have a Friend, O, Such a Friend Is He
  39. I Have a Sav­ior
  40. I Love God’s Word
  41. I See a Cross Through a Gate­way of Pray­er
  42. I Shall Be with My Dear Lord Some Day
  43. I Want to Be True
  44. I Was Sink­ing, Sure­ly Sink­ing
  45. I Well Re­mem­ber How Christ Died for Me
  46. I Would Draw Near­er to Je­sus
  47. Into a Gar­den Went My Lord
  48. It Is Won­der­ful! Very Won­der­ful!
  49. Jesus Is the On­ly Sav­ior
  50. Lift Up Your Eyes to Cal­vary
  51. Listen to the Sav­ior’s Voice
  52. Lonely and Sad Though Your Heart May Be
  53. Long Had Je­sus Sought My Heart to Win
  54. Long Years Have Passed Since First You Left
  55. Lord, I Be­lieve
  56. Love Sent My Sav­ior to Die in My Stead
  57. Loved Ones Have Gone to Their Ete­rnal Rest
  58. Million Souls for Je­sus, A
  59. Music in the Heart
  60. My Lord Has Pro­mised My Sav­ior to Be
  61. No Bur­dens Hard to Bear
  62. No Great­er Sac­ri­fice Could Have Been Made
  63. No Long­er Lone­ly
  64. No Mat­ter How Far from the Lord You Have Strayed
  65. O Heed the Go­spel In­vi­ta­tion
  66. O What a Won­der­ful Sav­ior Is He
  67. On Cal­va­ry Alone He Died
  68. Once I Was Far from My Lord Away
  69. Only Be­lieve and Live
  70. Open Is the Door to the King­dom of the Lord
  71. Open Your Heart, Let the Sav­ior Come In
  72. Redeemed with the Pre­cious Blood of Christ
  73. See, They Cru­ci­fy My Lord
  74. Send a Great Re­viv­al, Lord
  75. Shadows
  76. Sin Sick Souls Are Dy­ing Fast
  77. Since My Sav­ior Set Me Free
  78. Some Day I Shall Hear God’s Call of Love
  79. Sometime!
  80. Tell Out the Mes­sage of Je­sus
  81. There Are No Tears in Hea­ven
  82. There Is a Land of Light Eter­nal
  83. There Is Cleans­ing Pow­er in the Blood of Je­sus
  84. There Was a Heart
  85. There’s a Name I Al­ways Love to Hear
  86. Think Not of the Mor­row’s Care
  87. Though Clouds of Night May Ga­ther
  88. Through a Land of Sin and Shame
  89. Thy Will, Not Mine, O Lord
  90. To All Who Be­lieve, and Je­sus Re­ceive
  91. Traveling Home, Trav­el­ing Home
  92. Trusting Je­sus, Won­der­ful Guide
  93. Wages of Sin Is Death, The
  94. We Should Be­gin This Day with Thee
  95. What Could Be Great­er Than My Sav­ior’s Love
  96. What Sweet Peace We Shall Have
  97. What Will You Do with the Sav­ior?
  98. When God For­gives, He For­gets
  99. When He Shed His Blood
  100. When I Saw My Sav­ior Dy­ing
  101. When I Think How Je­sus Suf­fered
  102. When I Think of Je­sus Dy­ing on the Cross for Me
  103. When I Was Wan­der­ing Far Off
  104. When Life’s Toils Are O’er
  105. When the Clouds of Doubt Ap­pear
  106. When the Dark Clouds Round You Ga­ther
  107. When the Sha­dows Flee Away
  108. When You Are Seek­ing For­give­ness
  109. Wherever You Want Me to Go, Dear Lord
  110. Why Should He Love Me So?
  111. Will You En­list?
  112. Will You Fol­low Je­sus All the Way?
  113. Will You Take Je­sus To-day?
  114. With Je­sus En­throned in the Heart
  115. With My Bless­ed Lord I Meet
  116. With Thorn Crowned Head the Sav­ior Died
  117. Wonderful Grace
  118. Wonderful Pro­mise in God’s Word We Read
  119. Workers Are Now Need­ed
  120. Would You from Your Sin Be Free?
  121. Yet a Lit­tle While
  122. You May Have Wan­dered Far from God
  123. You Must Do Some­thing with Je­sus

Music

  1. Almaty
  2. At the Foot of the Cross
  3. Altogether Thine
  4. Bayonne
  5. Beyond
  6. Calling
  7. Carry Your Bi­ble
  8. Children’s Friend Is Je­sus, The
  9. Come in­to My Heart
  10. Cross, The
  11. Evening and Day Dawn
  12. Far from God, Away from Je­sus
  13. Hail! All Hail!
  14. He Wants a Poor Sin­ner Like Me
  15. He Will Hold Me Fast
  16. Hide God’s Word in Your Heart
  17. Huerta
  18. I Have a Sav­ior
  19. I Need to Be Filled
  20. I Would Draw Near­er to Je­sus
  21. I’m a Sub­ject of the King
  22. In Je­sus
  23. Is He Yours?
  24. Joy Await­ing, The
  25. Judgment, The
  26. Long Ago
  27. Meet Me in the Home­land
  28. Memories of Mo­ther
  29. Moment It is Done, The
  30. My Sins Are For­giv­en
  31. No Long­er Lon­ely
  32. Nonthaburi
  33. Old Time Way, The
  34. San Pe­dro
  35. Somebody Came and Lift­ed Me
  36. Shadows
  37. Somebody’s Here with an Ach­ing Heart
  38. Sometime!
  39. Soon Will Our Sav­ior from Hea­ven Ap­pear
  40. Such Love
  41. Thousand Oaks
  42. ’Tis Je­sus
  43. Traveling Home
  44. Trusting Je­sus, Won­der­ful Guide
  45. When I See My Sav­ior
  46. Why Not Set­tle It Now?
  47. Why Should He Love Me So?
  48. Will You Take Je­sus To­day?
  49. Wonderful Love
  50. Yielded