Make Me a Child of Thine

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Make me a child of Thine

Author: Eliza E. Hewitt
Tune: [Make me a child of thine]
Published in 6 hymnals

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1 Make me a child of thine,
Happy and blest;
Under thy shelt’ring wings
Finding sweet rest.
Washed in the cleansing blood,
Pure in thy sight,
Wearing thy righteousness,
Walking in white.
Make me a child of thine,
Happy and blest;
Under thy shelt’ring wings
Finding sweet rest.

2 Make me a child of thine,
Glad to obey;
Willing to follow thee,
Asking the way.
Led by thy guiding hand,
Fed at thy board,
Bearing thy precious name,
Jesus my Lord!
Make me a child of thine,
Glad to obey;
Willing to follow thee,
Asking the way.

3 Make me a child of thine,
Filled with thy love;
Turning from worldliness,
Looking above.
Trusting and serving thee
Till I shall be
In mansions beautiful,
Dwelling with thee.
Make me a child of thine,
Filled with thy love;
Turning from worldliness,
Looking above.

Source: Sunday-School Praises: prepared especially for use in the Sunday-School #123

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Author: Eliza E. Hewitt

Pseudonym: Lidie H. Edmunds. Eliza Edmunds Hewitt was born in Philadelphia 28 June 1851. She was educated in the public schools and after graduation from high school became a teacher. However, she developed a spinal malady which cut short her career and made her a shut-in for many years. During her convalescence, she studied English literature. She felt a need to be useful to her church and began writing poems for the primary department. she went on to teach Sunday school, take an active part in the Philadelphia Elementary Union and become Superintendent of the primary department of Calvin Presbyterian Church. Dianne Shapiro, from "The Singers and Their Songs: sketches of living gospel hymn writers" by Charles Hutchinson Gabriel (… Go to person page >

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