Quote#God & Faith
Bring the little ones to Christ. Lord Jesus, we bring them to-day,…
Quote byThomas De Witt Talmage · 1832–1902
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 571..
English (original)
Bring the little ones to Christ. Lord Jesus, we bring them to-day, the children of our Sunday-schools, of our churches, of the streets. Here they are; they wait Thy benediction. The prayer of Jacob for his sons shall be my prayer while I live, and when I die: " The angel which redeemed me from all evil, bless the lads."
— Thomas De Witt Talmage
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