Are you a Christian, little friend

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Are you a Christian, little friend

Author: Charles Price Jones
Tune: [Are you a Christian, little friend?]
Published in 2 hymnals

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1 Are you a Christian, little friend?
If not, you ought to be;
For Jesus said of such as you,
"Let children come to Me."
How blessed they who hear the voice
Of God, in childhood's day!
That follow Christ, the Blessed One,
In faith and love alway!

Refrain:
O come, then come;
O why still delay?
The Saviour is calling today,
Come, little one, why still delay?

2 The noblest men the earth has known,
And noblest women, too,
Forsook the world and served the Lord,
When just as young as you.
Full many a soul in heav'n today,
To God was reconciled
By pleading words and earnest tears
From but a little child. [Refrain]

3 And bids He not the youth to come
And tread the heavenly path,
Ere they have heaped iniquity
Against the day of wrath?
Are you a Christian, little friend?
If not, you ought to be;
Christ calls to you with open arms:
"Come, children, unto Me." [Refrain]

Source: His Fullness Songs #246

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Author: Charles Price Jones

Charles Price Jones born December 9, 1865, near Rome, Georgia. He grew up in Kingston, Georgia, and attended the Baptist church. He was converted in 1884 while living in Cat Island, Arkansas. In 1885 he was called to the ministry and began preaching. In 1888 he attended Arkansas Baptist College and taught school in Grant County, Arkansas. He preached and pastored several Baptist churches. After asking God for a deeper experience of grace and fasting and praying for three days, Jones experienced a closeness with God, and in 1895, along with other Baptist holiness adherents, who taught that a second work of grace can cleanse the Christian of original sin. They started a holiness movement in the Baptist church, and he began teaching holiness i… Go to person page >

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