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NURSERY AND SCHOOL HYMNS.

A CHILD'S PRAYER.

1 GENTLE Jesus, meek and mild,
Look upon a little child,

Pity my simplicity,

Suffer me to come to Thee.

2 Fain I would to Thee be brought,
Gracious God! forbid it not;
In the kingdom of Thy grace,
Give a little child a place.

3 O supply my every want,

Feed the young and tender plant;
Day and night my keeper be,
Every moment watch round me.

PRAYER FOR GRACE.

1 LORD, look upon a little child,
By nature sinful, rude, and wild:
Oh! put Thy gracious hands on me,
And make me all I ought to be.

2 Make me Thy child, a child of God,
Wash'd in my Saviour's precious blood,
And my whole heart, from sin set free,
A little vessel full of Thee;-

3 A star of early dawn, and bright,
Shining within Thy sacred light;
A beam of grace to all around;
A little spot of hallow'd ground.

4 Dear Jesus, take me to Thy breast,
And bless me, that I may be blest;
Both when I wake, and when I sleep,
Thy little lamb in safety keep.

FOR THE HOLY SPIRIT.

1 LORD, teach a little child to pray ;
Thy grace betimes impart,

And grant Thy Holy Spirit may
Renew my infant heart.

2 A sinful creature I was born,
And ever since have stray'd;
I must be wretched and forlorn
Without Thy mercy's aid.

3 But Christ can all my sins forgive,
And wash away their stain;
Can fit my soul with Him to live,
And in His kingdom reign.

4 To Him let little children come,
For He has said they may;

His bosom, then, shall be their home;
Their tears He'll wipe away.

5 For all who early seek His face
Shall surely taste His love;
Jesus shall guide them, by His grace,
To dwell with Him above.

PRAYER.

1 THE Lord attends when children pray, A whisper He can hear; He knows not only what we say,

But what we wish or fear.

2 He sees us when we are alone,

Though no one else can see;

And all our thoughts to Him are known,
Wherever we may be.

3 'Tis not enough to bend the knee,
And words of prayer to say:

The heart must with the lips agree,
Or else we do not pray.

4 Teach us, O Lord, to pray aright,
Thy grace to us impart,

That we in prayer may take delight,
And serve Thee with the heart.

5 Then, Heavenly Father! at Thy throne
Thy praise we will proclaim:
And daily our requests make known,
In our Redeemer's name.

THE CHILD'S GOSPEL.

1 I THINK When I read that sweet story of old,
When Jesus was here among men,

How He call'd little children, as lambs to His fold,
I should like to have been with them then.
I wish that His hands had been placed on my head,
That His arm had been thrown around me,
And that I might have seen His kind look when
He said,

"Let the little ones come unto me."

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