- Lyricist: William M. Hutchings, 1850v. 4 by Anonymous/Unknown
- Composer: Anonymous/Unknown, pub.1818
- Subjects: Children, Invitation, Missionary
- Scriptures: Luke 18:16; Isaiah 40:11
- Key: C
- Meter: 13.13.8.8.11
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- When mothers of Salem their children brought to Jesus,
The stern disciples drove them back and bade them depart;
But Jesus saw them ere they fled,
And sweetly smiled and kindly said,
“Suffer little children to come unto Me.
- “For I will receive them, and fold them in My bosom;
I’ll be a Shepherd to those lambs, oh, drive them not away!
For if their hearts to Me they give,
They shall with Me in glory live:
Suffer little children to come unto Me.”
- How kind was our Savior to bid those children welcome!
But there are many thousands who have never heard His name;
The Bible they have never read,
They know not that the Savior said,
“Suffer little children to come unto Me.”
- And still the kind Savior bids little children welcome,
For Jesus’ loving, tender heart to children is the same;
Though here His voice is no more heard,
From heav’n itself He speaks this word,
“Suffer little children to come unto Me.”
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