When mothers of Salem

Their children brought to Jesus,

The stem 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 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”.

Oh! soon may the heathen

Of every tribe and nation

Fulfil Thy blessed word,

And cast their idols all away;

Oh! shine upon them from above,

And show Thy self a God of love

Teach the little children to come unto Thee.