Cântăre 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 in My bosom;

I'll be a Shepherd to those 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 our Saviour

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 Saviour said:

"Suffer little children to come unto me."



O soon may the heathen

Of every tribe and nation

Fulfil Thy blessed word, and cast

Their idols all away;

O shine upon them from above,

And show Thyself the God of love;

Teach the little children

To come unto Thee.