IN OUR DEAR LORD'S GARDEN - HYMN

One of my favourite Sunday School hymns will not be found in the modern hymn book but I still enjoy singing it.

In our dear Lord's garden,

Planted here below,

Many tiny flowerets

In sweet beauty grow.

Christ the loving Gardener,

Tends these blossoms small;

Loves the little lilies

As the cedars tall.

Nothing is too little

For His gentle care;

Nothing is too lowly

In His love to share.

Jesus loves the children,

Children such as we;

Blest them when their mothers

Brought them to His knee.

Jesus calls the children,

Bids them come and stand

In His pleasant garden,

Watered by His hand.

Lord, Thy call we answer

Take us in Thycare;

Train us in Thy garden,

In Thy work to share.

(Ella Sophia Armitage 1841-1931)