Little children, do you pray?
Call on God from day to day?
Do you pray that God may keep,
And protect you when you sleep?
Do you in the morning pray
God to bless you through the day?
Little children time should spare
Every day for humble prayer.
Little children, do you praise,
And your little voices raise,
Unto Him who spares your lives,
And who all your blessings gives?
Do you praise Him for your food?
For your clothes, and all that’s good?
For His sweet redeeming grace?
For His love to all our race?
Little children, have you read
How the blessed Saviour bled,
That He might your souls restore
Unto joys for evermore?
How He did ascend on high?
How He lives above the sky?
How He waits your souls to bless
With the riches of His grace?
Christ is earnest; bids thee come,
Paid thy spirit’s priceless sum;
Wilt thou spurn thy Saviour’s love,
Pleading with thee from above?
ML 04/01/1906