How Dear to God Are Little Children
Author: Jaclyn Thomas Milne
Composer: Carol Baker Black
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- English: How Dear to God Are Little Children
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Most common tunes for “How Dear to God Are Little Children”
This chart shows the tunes that are paired with this text most frequently, in hymnbooks and other collections published by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. If the text appears with the same tune in multiple editions or translations of the same hymnbook, it is only counted once.
Appearances of “How Dear to God Are Little Children” over time
This timeline shows which tunes have been used with this text over time, in hymnbooks and other collections published by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
Copyright status of original text
This text was first published in English, in 1989 or earlier.
In copyright (IRI)
Earliest source indexed at SingPraises.net: Children’s Songbook (1989), p. 180.
Representative lyrics
English (Original Language)
1. How dear to God are little children; With him their spirit life began. So priceless their security, Their innocence and purity; They are a part of his eternal plan.
2. To earthly parents God sends children To guide and teach, protect and love. Oh, let us keep the sacred trust That he has placed with each of us And help to guide them back to God above. How dear to God are little children.