Blessedness of Instructing the Young

Verse 1

Delightful work! young souls to win, And turn the rising race From the deceitful paths of sin, To seek redeeming grace.

Verse 2

Children our kind protection claim, And God will well approve When infants learn to lisp his name, And their Redeemer love.

Verse 3

Be ours the bliss, in wisdom's way To guide untutored youth, And show the mind which went astray The Way, the Life, the Truth.

Verse 4

Almighty God, thine influence shed, To aid this blest design; The honors of thy name be spread, And all the glory thine.