Career
Professional career
He started his career as a civil engineer for the Great Western Railway (GWR) and Great Eastern Railway (GER), before taking a post as chief engineer to the Republic of Bolivia. On his return to London in 1883 he trained for the bar, and was called at Gray"s Inn, where he was later elected to the Bench. Christian life
= Early beliefs = Christian conversion At the same time the elevated social status of his wife"s family brought him entry to the upper strata of London society.
When the new League began publishing the Tongues of Fire magazine it became associated in the mind of the public with the emerging "tongues movement".
Reader Harris claimed that the two had no connection other than their reference to the second chapter of the Book of Acts (Acts 2:6-12). In November 1907 he stated that:
"There is nothing wrong with speaking in tongues.
lieutenant was the privilege of the early Church, and it may be the privilege of any believer today."
= Ten Lost Tribes In 1907 Reader Harris wrote his book "The Lost Tribes of Israel", which expressed his belief in the theory that the Anglo-Saxons are descended from the Ten Lost Tribes:
Such then are the Scriptures that appear to me to furnish strong evidence in favour of the contention of those who believe that in the Anglo-Saxon race God possesses today the descendants of the house of Israel. If this be true, it adds tremendously to our responsibilities, and opens before us in a way that no human tongue can describe, spiritual possibilities, temporal possibilities, national possibilities, and universal possibilities.
= Death On 25 March 1909 Reader Harris suffered a stroke and remained in a coma at his home in London and without regaining consciousness he died four days later at the age of sixty-one.
On 6 April, two thousand people attempted to attend his funeral at West Norwood Cemetery. Hundreds stood outside.