It Fills My Heart With Joy

Top Text Author Text Info Tune Page Scans Instances

When Jesus called the little ones

Author: Eliza E. Hewitt
Tune: [When Jesus called the little ones]
Published in 2 hymnals

Representative Text

1 When Jesus called the little ones,
He said that they would welcome be;
It fills my heart with joy to know
He spoke those words for me,
For me, for me, He spoke those words for me,
It fills my heart with joy to know,
He spoke those words for me.

2 The Saviour took them in his arms,
And gave his blessing tenderly;
It fills my heart with joy to know
His blessing is for me,
For me, for me, His blessing is for me,
It fills my heart with joy to know,
His blessing is for me.

3 Our Saviour listen'd to the praise
Of children's voices, glad and free,
It fills my heart with joy to know
He listens now to me,
To me, to me, He listens now to me,
It fills my heart with joy to know,
He listens now to me.

Source: Living Hymns: for use in the Sabbath School, Christian Endeavor Meetings, the church & home #145

All representative texts • Compare texts ^ top

Author: Eliza E. Hewitt

Pseudonym: Lidie H. Edmunds. Eliza Edmunds Hewitt was born in Philadelphia 28 June 1851. She was educated in the public schools and after graduation from high school became a teacher. However, she developed a spinal malady which cut short her career and made her a shut-in for many years. During her convalescence, she studied English literature. She felt a need to be useful to her church and began writing poems for the primary department. she went on to teach Sunday school, take an active part in the Philadelphia Elementary Union and become Superintendent of the primary department of Calvin Presbyterian Church. Dianne Shapiro, from "The Singers and Their Songs: sketches of living gospel hymn writers" by Charles Hutchinson Gabriel (… Go to person page >

^ top