 I THINK, when I read that sweet story of old, When Jesus was here among men, How He called little children as lambs to His fold, I should like to have been with them then.  The Wesleyan juvenile offering - Page 43by Wesleyan Methodist missionary society - 1846Full view - About this book
 | Leeds Sunday School Union (Leeds) - Hymns, English - 1858 - 360 pages
...T THINK, when I read that sweet story of old, JL When our Saviour was here among men. How He called little children, as lambs to His fold, I should like to have been with Him then ; I wish that His hands had been placed on my head, That His arm had been thrown around roe.... | |
 | Thomas Hughes Milner - 1858 - 528 pages
...suffering were her portion, and in the hours of loneliness and pain there was nothiLg so cheering as " That sweet story of old, When Jesus was here among men, How he took little children like lambs to his fold ; And she wished she had been with him there." At last... | |
 | A mother - 1858 - 232 pages
...put his hands upon them, and blessed them ! " Does not this remind you of your little hymn ? — " I think when I read that sweet story of old, When Jesus dwelt here among men, And called little children as lambs to his fold, I should like to have been with... | |
 | 1859 - 748 pages
...praying child !' One of the hymns which Hattie loved to sing, is well known to Sunday-school children : 'I think when I read that sweet story of old, When...fold, — I should like to have been with them then.' Indeed, the fact of his having received little children, was such a proof of his condescension, that... | |
 | Joseph Belcher - Hymn writers - 1859 - 430 pages
...expected to hear some jovial song, — when, to their astonishment, he began the beautiful hymn, — " I think, when I read that sweet story of old, When Jesus was here among men, How he called little children the lambs of his fold, I should like to have been with them then." The effect... | |
 | William Trevor Nicholson - 1859 - 392 pages
...resembling " their angels," which " do always behold the face of " His " Father which is in heaven." I think when I read that sweet story of old, When Jesus was here among men, How He called little children as lambs to His fold, — . I should like to have been with them then. I wish... | |
 | Joseph Belcher - Hymn writers - 1859 - 418 pages
...expected to hear some jovial song, — when, to their astonishment, he began the beautiful hymn,— " I think, when I read that sweet story of old, When Jesus was here among men, How he called little children the lambs of his fold, I should like to have been with them then." The effect... | |
 | Joseph M. Wilson - Presbyterian Church - 1865 - 392 pages
...encouraged them to sing. One of his favorite hymns was the 333d, in Dr. Boardman's collection : — " ' I think when I read that sweet story of old, When Jesus was here among men,* Ac. Dr. Thompson was a sweet singer. He delighted in music, and on the flute he performed the most... | |
 | Henry Ward Beecher - Hymns, English - 1859 - 532 pages
...Can to greater joys aspire. WATTS. SW ;ET 8TOEY. Ils & 9s. „> i»* y > ' ' • li Г 7 ? U ^ ? ' 1. I think when I read that sweet story of old, When Jesus was here among men, HowHe ЬМы= b_* - л called little children as lambs to His fold, I should like to have been with... | |
 | John Ross MacDuff - 1859 - 178 pages
...— " I think when I read the sweet story of old, How, when Jesus was here among men, He once called little children as lambs to His fold, I should like to have been with Him then. I wish that His hands had been placed on my head, That His arms had been thrown around me,... | |
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