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Text:This Child We Dedicate to Thee
Translator:S Gilman
Tune:HEBRON
Composer:Lowell Mason, 1792-1872

325. This Child We Dedicate to Thee

1 This child we dedicate to Thee,
O God of grace and purity!
Shield it from sin and threatening wrong,
And let Thy love its life prolong.

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.

3 We, too, before Thy gracious sight,
Once shared the blest baptismal rite,
And would renew its solemn vow
With love, and thanks, and praises, now.

4 Grant that, with true and faithful heart,
We still may act the Christian's part,
Cheered by each promise Thou hast given,
And laboring for the prize in heaven.

AMEN.

Text Information
First Line: This child we dedicate to Thee
Title: This Child We Dedicate to Thee
Translator: S Gilman
Meter: L M
Language: English
Publication Date: 1999
Topic: Baptism
Tune Information
Name: HEBRON
Composer: Lowell Mason, 1792-1872
Meter: L M
Key: B♭ Major



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