Dedicated to all dear children's ministers

Said a precious little laddie to his father one bright day,
"May I give my heart to Jesus? Let Him wash my sins away?"
"Oh my son, but you're too little, wait until you older grow.
For bigger folks 'tis true need Him, but little ones are safe, you know."

Said the father to the laddie as a storm was coming on,
"Are the sheep all safely sheltered, safe within the fold, my son?"
"Ah, the big ones are, my father, but the lambs, I let them go.
For I didn't think it mattered little ones are safe, you know."

Oh my brother, oh, my sister; have you too made that mistake?
Little hearts that now are yielding may be hardened then, too late.
E're the evil days come near them, "Let the children come to Me.
And forbid them not," said Jesus. "Of such shall My kingdom be."

Ref. Bisagno, John. Pastor's Handbook, 2011, 290