When Mothers Of Salem

When mothers of salem their children brought to Jesus,
The stern disciples drove them back and bade them to 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 to my bosom:
I’ll be a shepherd to these 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 was our Savior to bid these children welcome!
But there are many thousands who have never heard his name;
The bible they have never read, they know not that the Savior said,
“suffer little children to come unto me.”

O soon may the heathen of every tribe and nation
Fulfill thy blessèd 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 Thee!