Good Christian Songs to Teach Your Children

[Pastor Ezekiel]

[Ezekiel Bathfire]

Re: Good Christian Songs to Teach Your Children

As Songs for youngsters, I can offer no higher recommendation than these hymns

Sanctified Afflictions

1 FATHER I bless thy gentle hand;
How kind was thy chastising rod
That forced my conscience to a stand
And brought my wandring soul to God.

2 Foolish and vain I went astray
Ere I had felt thy scourges.
Lord I left my guide and lost my way
But now I love and keep thy word

3 Tis good for me to wear the yoke,
For pride is apt to rise and swell,
‘Tis good to bear my Father’s strokes
That I might learn His statutes well

Isaac Watts

This is a beautiful hymn on several levels – it shows how a parent must beat his child in the manner that God punishes, even if we do not understand why.

In Affliction
1 HEAR gracious God my humble moan
To thee I breathe my sighs
When will the mournful night be gone,
When shall my joys arise?

2 Yet though my soul in darkness mourns
Thy promise is my stay,
Here would I rest till light returns,
Thy presence makes my day

3 Come Lord and with celestial peace
Relieve my aching heart,
O smile and bid my sorrows cease
And all their gloom depart.

4 Then shall my drooping spirit rise
And bless thy healing rays
And change these deep complaining sighs
For songs of sacred praise.

Steele

I think that the author had the tone completely correct – God may seem to destroy your life and hope but, in fact, He is preparing you for death and Heaven. Such a touching message for a child.

Joy in Sorrow

1 AND let this feeble body fail
And let it faint and die;
My soul shall quit the mournful vale
And soar to worlds on high:

2 Shall join the disembodied saints,
And find its long sought rest,
That only bliss for which it pants,
In the Redeemer's breast.

3 In hope of that immortal crown
I now the cross sustain
And gladly wander up and down
And smile at toil and pain

4 I travel my appointed years
Till my Deliverer come
And wipe away his servant’s tears
And take his exile home

Just re-read that first verse – such hope, such sentiment! Now, that’s poetry! Godly poetry! “Shall join the disembodied saints” What child could fail to be uplifted by that?

All courtesy of “Family Hymns” by The American Tract Society, from days when God was respected for what He is and not what some opportunist preacherman thought the liberal, fluffy-bunny types wanted to hear.

[Ezekiel Bathfire]

Re: Good Christian Songs to Teach Your Children

I'm sorry to be posting again in such a short time but Mrs. Bathfire insists that I add this one. It was one of her favorites as a child. It is from the same Godly volume, from the section

FOR CHILDREN AND YOUTH

So it must be suitable:

233 The Crucifixion
1 TO at noon tis sudden night!
Darkness covers all the day!
Rocks are rending at the sight -
Children can you tell me why?
What can all these wonders be
Jesus dies on Calvary

2 Stretch’d upon the cross behold
How his tender limbs are torn!
For a royal crown of Gold
They have made him one of thorn!
Cruel hands that dare to bind
Thorns upon a brow so kind.

3 See! The blood is falling fast
From his forehead and his side!
Listen he has breath’d his last!
With a mighty groan he died!
Children can you tell me why
Jesus condescends to die?

4 He who was a king above,
Left his kingdom for a grave,
Out of pity and of love,
That the guilty he might save:
Down to this sad world he flew
For such little ones as you.

5 You were wretched weak and vile;
You deserv’d his holy frown;
But he saw you with a smile,
And to save you hasten’d dow:
Listen, children: this is why
Jesus condescends to die.

6 Come then children, come and see;
Lift your little hands to pray
“Blessed Jesus pardon me,
“Help a guilty infant,” say;
“Since it was for such as I
“Thou didst condescend to die.”

Mrs. Bathfire’s favorite part was the first 2 lines of verse 5:

“You were wretched weak and vile;
You deserv’d his holy frown;”
She says that at this point she would look across at Jebediah Cochran (father of that reprobate, Seth) and give him a meaningful stare.

[eliot mayfield]

Re: Good Christian Songs to Teach Your Children

Well, Bathfire, I must admit yours are much better than that damned homosexual agenda stuff pastor Zeke posted! I have to assume he was just testing us as he is a very Godly pastor indeed!