Hymns of the Christian Life #419
Display Title: This child we dedicate to thee First Line: This child we dedicate to thee Author: Samuel Gilman Date: 1992
Hymns of the Christian Life #419
1 This child we dedicate to Thee,
O God of grace and purity!
In Thy great love its life prolong;
Shield it, we pray, from sin and wrong.
2 O may Thy Spirit gently draw
Its willing soul to keep Thy law;
May virtue, piety, and truth
Dawn even with its dawning youth.
Source: Baptist Hymnal 2008 #649
First Line: | This child we dedicate to Thee |
Title: | This Child We Dedicate to Thee |
Original Language: | German |
Translator: | Samuel Gilman |
Author: | Christoph Friedrich Neander |
Meter: | 8.8.8.8 |
Language: | English |
Notes: | Spanish translation: See "A este niño da, oh Dios" by Clair E. Weldon |
Copyright: | Public Domain |
This child we dedicate to Thee. S. Gilman. [Holy Baptism.] Professor Bird dates this 1823. Putnam, in his Singers and Songs, &c, 1874, p. 73, gives it in full as a translation from the German. The original we have not traced.
--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, Appendix, Part II (1907)