When mothers of salem

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 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,
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 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."

O soon may the heathen
Of every tribe and nation
Fulfil Thy blessed word, and cast
Their idols all away
O shine upon them from above,
And show Thyself the God of love
Teach the little children
To come unto Thee.