When mothers of Salem, their children brought to Jesus
When mothers of Salem, their children brought to Jesus. William Medlen Hutchings* (1827-1876).
Written for a Sunday school anniversary at St Paul’s Chapel, Wigan, this hymn had six verses. It was revised in a text of five verses and published in The Juvenile Missionary Magazine (June, 1850). Perhaps with the magazine’s purpose in mind, the hymn as published was directed to missionary work (‘And soon may the heathen/ Of every tribe and nation/ Fulfil Thy blessed word, and cast/ Their idols all away’). It was included in The Child’s Own Hymn Book (1865). It remained popular in the first half of the 20th century, with alterations, usually in texts of four verses (RCH) or three (MHB, BHB) and...
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