God Loves to Hear the Children Sing

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God loves to hear the children sing

Author: Elisha A. Hoffman
Tune: [God loves to hear the children sing]
Published in 2 hymnals

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1. God loves to hear the children sing
WitH voices sweet and clear,
And when they chant their glad refrains,
He lends a list'ning ear.

Chorus:
Then sing, children, sing,
Sing, children, sing,
Sing aloud the praises of your glorious, heavenly King;
Sing, children, sing,
Sing, children, sing,
Fill the air with melody, and sing, sing, sing.

2 God loves to hear the children sing,
And angels list with joy
When little ones, in praise to Christ,
Their hearts and tongues employ. [Chorus]

3 God loves to hear the children sing,
And gathers them on high
To join the blood-washed and redeemed
Their Lord to glorify. [Chorus]

Source: The Evergreen: songs for the Sunday school, sanctuary and home circle #143

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Author: Elisha A. Hoffman

Elisha Hoffman (1839-1929) after graduating from Union Seminary in Pennsylvania was ordained in 1868. As a minister he was appointed to the circuit in Napoleon, Ohio in 1872. He worked with the Evangelical Association's publishing arm in Cleveland for eleven years. He served in many chapels and churches in Cleveland and in Grafton in the 1880s, among them Bethel Home for Sailors and Seamen, Chestnut Ridge Union Chapel, Grace Congregational Church and Rockport Congregational Church. In his lifetime he wrote more than 2,000 gospel songs including"Leaning on the everlasting arms" (1894). The fifty song books he edited include Pentecostal Hymns No. 1 and The Evergreen, 1873. Mary Louise VanDyke… Go to person page >

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First Line:	God loves to hear the children sing
Title:	God Loves to Hear the Children Sing
Author:	Elisha A. Hoffman
Language:	English
Refrain First Line:	Then, children sing, sing
Copyright:	Public Domain