1820-1885) Author of PORTRAITS OF THE GREAT REVIVAL and ISAAC WATTS – His Life & Hymns. He also wrote the hymn, "I love to think though I am young, my Saviour was a child: that Jesus walked this earth along, with feet all undefiled - He kept His Father’s Word of Truth, as I am taught to do; and while He walked the paths of youth, He walked in wisdom too - I love to think that He who spake, and made the blind to see, and called the sleeping dead to wake, was once a child like me - That He who wore the thorny crown, and tasted death’s despair, had a kindly mother like my own, and knew her love and care - I know ’twas all for love of me, that He became a child, and left the heavens so fair to see, and trod earth’s pathway wild - Then Saviour who wast once a child, a child may come to Thee, and O in all Thy mercy mild, dear Saviour come to me!’ |