Canadian Sabbath-School Hymn Book #5
Display Title: Happy child whom God doth aid First Line: Happy child whom God doth aid Author: Charles Wesley, 1707-1788 Date: 1866
Canadian Sabbath-School Hymn Book #5
First Line: | Happy man whom God doth aid |
Author: | Charles Wesley |
Language: | English |
Copyright: | Public Domain |
Happy man [child] whom God doth aid. C. Wesley. [Praise to God for care over Children.] First published in his Hymns for Children, 1763, No. 38, in 3 stanzas of 8 lines. (Poetical Works, 1868-72, vol. vi. p. 387.) In the Methodist Sunday School Hymn Book, 1879, No. 61, it is changed to "Happy child whom God doth aid," as being more suitable for children,
--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)