300 A Little Child the Savior Came
William Robertson, 1820-64
A Scotch Presbyterian minister, William Robertson, contributed this hymn to the Church of Scotland’s Hymns for Public Worship in 1861. The author, keenly interested in hymnody and Scotch psalmody, was a member of the Hymnal Committee of the Church of Scotland in 1851, 1853, and 1857.
MUSIC. ALSTONE was composed by C. E. Willing, 1830-1904, for the children’s hymn, “We are but little children weak,” in Hymns Ancient and Modern, Appendix, 1868. Willing was chorister of Westminster Abbey and held various responsible positions as organist and choral conductor in England.
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