Bring the Children to Jesus

Seeking the Master in faith and love

Author: Eliza E. Hewitt
Tune: [Seeking the Master in faith and love]
Published in 2 hymnals

Audio files: MIDI

Representative Text

1 Seeking the Master in faith and love,
Bring the children to Jesus;
No other friend like the Friend above,
Bring the children to Jesus.

Refrain:
Bring them to Jesus whose grace is free,
Bring them to Jesus, His treasures to be;
Bring them for time and eternity,
Bring the children to Jesus.

2 “Suffer the children,” He once did say,
Bring the children to Jesus;
He is the Life and the Truth, the way,
Bring the children to Jesus. [Refrain]

3 Bring them by teaching and earnest prayer,
Bring the children to Jesus;
Bring them by loving and faithful care,
Bring the children to Jesus. [Refrain]

4 Bring them for shelter from worldly harms,
Bring the children to Jesus;
Safety from sin in the Saviour’s arms,
Bring the children to Jesus. [Refrain]

5 Bring them to render Him sweetest praise,
Bring the children to Jesus;
Growing in grace as they grow in days,
Bring the children to Jesus. [Refrain]

Source: Fair as the Morning. Hymns and Tunes for Praise in the Sunday-School #146

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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First Line: Seeking the Master in faith and love
Title: Bring the Children to Jesus
Author: Eliza E. Hewitt
Language: English
Refrain First Line: Bring them to Jesus whose grace is free
Copyright: Public Domain

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