I think, when I read that sweet story of old

I think, when I read that sweet story of old. Jemima Luke* (1813-1906). Two verses of this hymn, based on Mark 10: 14, were written during a journey between Wellington and Taunton, Somerset, by stage-coach in 1841 to match a Greek tune named ATHENS (see below) that she had heard in a school, the Normal Infants’ School, in London.  They were intended for use at a village school, and were published in The Sunday School Teachers’ Magazine, and Journal of Education in 1841, entitled ‘The Child’s Desire’: 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 that His...