When mothers of Salem
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 to my bosom:
I'll be a shepherd to these lambs, O 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 these 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."
O soon may the heathen of every tribe and nation
fulfill thy blessèd Word and cast their idols all away!
O shine upon them from above and show thyself a God of love,
teach the little children to come unto thee!
Words: William Medlen Hutchings, 1850
Music: Salem
Meter: Irr.
Website compiled by
Steve Benner
, 1999-2003.
