Good Shepherd, take this little child
Good Shepherd, take this little child. Claire Cloninger* (1942- ).
This charming short hymn of three 2-line stanzas first appeared in The Hymnal For Worship and Celebration (1986). A hymn without rhyme, beginning ‘Good Shepherd, take this little child into Your loving hands/ and in the days that lie ahead protect this little lamb’ is sung to AMY, by Ken Barker. It has been included in a number of contemporary hymnals, including the Baptist Hymnal (2008), and The Worshiping Church, edited by Donald P...
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