Child of blessing, child of promise
Child of blessing, child of promise. Ronald Cole-Turner* (1948- ).
Written in 1980, this charming hymn for Baptism was published in Everflowing Streams (Pilgrim Press, 1981), edited by Ruth C. Duck* and Michael G. Bausch. It was sung at the Baptism of the author’s second daughter, Rachel Elizabeth, on 13 June 1982 (Young, 1993, p. 268). Its first appearance in a denominational hymnal was in UMH (1989), which printed a four-stanza text, but did not include stanza 1 lines 2-3, owing to the perceived reference to the rite of infant dedication which is outside the parameters of United Methodist sacramental theology (Young, 1993, p. 269):
Child of blessing, child of promise,
Consecrated and...
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