I think when I read that sweet story of old

Representative text

As printed in The Seventh-day Adventist Hymnal (1985), no. 146.

Verse 1

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 Him then.

Verse 2

I wish that His hands had been placed on my head, That His arm had been thrown around me, And that I might have seen His kind look when He said, “Let the little ones come unto Me.”

Verse 3

I long for the joy of that glorious time, The sweetest and brightest and best, When the dear little children of every clime Shall crowd to His arms and be blest.