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I Will Praise Him A hymn that expresses praise to the Lord is “I Will Praise Him.” The text was written and the tune was composed both by Mrs. Margaret Jenkins Harris, who was born on July 31, 1865, at Rushville, IL. A member of the Iowa Holiness Association, she and her husband John Harris, also a songwriter, were active in holiness revivals and camp meetings. “I Will Praise Him” was copyrighted in 1898 and owned by the Nazarene Publishing House. The Harrises served as music directors for the 1901 General Holiness Convention in Chicago, IL. In 1910 Margaret edited the Glorious Gospel in Song for the Christian Witness Publishing Co. of Chicago. She wrote, “When I saw the cleansing fountain open wide for all my sin, I obeyed the Spirit’s wooing, when He said, ‘Wilt thou be clean?’” She recognized that sin had burdened and bogged her down. “Though the way seems straight and narrow, all I claimed was swept away; my ambitions, plans and wishes, at my feet in ashes lay.” But God sent the fire of His Spirit to change her life. She described how “the altar of my heart was set aflame.”
Lyrics by Margaret Harris
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