Suffer little children to come unto Me

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 the 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 the little children to come unto me.

How kind was our Savior to bid those children welcome.

For there are many thousands who have never heard His name.

The Bible they have never read, they know not that the Savior said,

Suffer the little children to come unto me.

O soon may the heathen of every tribe and nation,

Fulfill thy blessed 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 me.

 William Medlen Hutchings, 1827-76