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Anna B. Warner
- Anna B. Warner (b. Long Island, NY, 1827; d. Constitution Island, near West Point, NY, 1915) wrote this beloved children's hymn text in 1859. It was published in Say and Seal (1860), a novel Warner wrote in collaboration with her sister Susan, author of another popular children's hymn, “Jesus Bids Us Shine.”
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In 1871, David R. McGuire, who was on the revision committee for the United Church of Canada, wrote two additional stanzas for this hymn in The Hymn Book. They have the second lines “As he loved so long ago” and “Walking with me on my way.” Other stanzas have also been written anonymously.
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1 Jesus loves me, this I know, For the Bible tells me so. Little ones to him belong; They are weak, but he is strong. Refrain: Yes, Jesus loves me! Yes, Jesus loves me! Yes, Jesus loves me! The Bible tells me so. 2 Jesus loves me, he who died Heaven’s gate to open wide. He will wash away my sin, Let his little child come in. [Refrain] 3 Jesus loves...
Jesus loves me still today, Walking with me on my way, Wanting as a friend to give Light and love to all who live. Jesus loves me! He will stay Close beside me all the way; Thou hast bled and died for me, I will henceforth live for Thee.
This catchy gospel song has a great back story. Anna Bartlett Warner, who traced her lineage back to the Puritan Pilgrims, wrote the words of this song. It appeared as a poem in the 1860 bestselling novel “Say and Seal”, which was written by Susan Warner (1819-1885), Anna’s sister. The sisters who lost their mother at an early age were daughters of...
Jesus loves me—this I know, For the Bible tells me so; Little ones to him belong—. They are weak, but he is strong. This may be the first hymn learned by many a child in Christian homes. Hymnologist William J. Reynolds recounts its story: Anna B. Warner’s hymn was included in her sister’s novel, Say and Seal, 1860.
William B. Bradbury added a refrain line to Warner's stanzas and wrote the tune JESUS LOVES ME in 1861. The hymn was published in Bradbury's church school collection The Golden Shower (1862). The tune is also known as CHINA in some hymnals, presumably because of its popularity among missionaries to that land.
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- JESUS LOVES ME (Bradbury)
Poem by Anna Bartlett Warner. As originally published in 1860, it appeared in four stanzas, as follows: Jesus loves me—this I know, For the Bible tells me so: Little ones to him belong,— They are weak, but he is strong. Jesus loves me—he who died. Heaven's gate to open wide; He will wash away my sin, Let his little child come in.
Stanza 1 establishes that Jesus is a friend that can bear our sins and burdens. This theme appears in the eighteenth century with Charles Wesley’s “Jesus, Lover of My Soul” (1740) and John Newton’s “How Sweet the Name of Jesus Sounds” (1779).
It was originally written by Anna B. Warner as a poem to be used in Susan Warner’s novel “Say and Seal”, however, William Batchelder Bradbury had decided to add extra parts and music when...
