{"id":119001,"date":"2023-08-01T10:31:42","date_gmt":"2023-08-01T10:31:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/?p=119001"},"modified":"2023-08-01T10:36:10","modified_gmt":"2023-08-01T10:36:10","slug":"songs-of-praise-jesus-loves-me-by-charles-schokman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/songs-of-praise-jesus-loves-me-by-charles-schokman\/","title":{"rendered":"SONGS OF PRAISE – Jesus Loves Me – By Charles Schokman"},"content":{"rendered":"

SONGS OF PRAISE – Jesus Loves Me – By Charles Schokman<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n

\u201cJesus loves me \u2013 this I know, For the Bible tells me so:<\/span><\/p>\n

If you have been a Christian for very long, then you have probably heard the famous children\u2019s song, \u201cJesus Loves Me.\u201d It is played in most churches and Christian homes across the world. Have you ever wondered about its origin or the author\u2019s story?\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\"Jesus<\/a><\/p>\n

Two sisters, Anna and Susan Warner, became writers after their father passed away. They were left with very little and needed the means to survive. Both women became quite the writers, with Susan publishing several well-known novels and Anna publishing collections of hymns. They lived together on the Hudson River in New York. Their house was next to a military academy for young boys, so they soon began to teach the Bible at the Academy. They spent many years teaching the boys in Sunday School. What started as a Bible Study on the one day a week the boys had for free time quickly became a sizeable weekly ritual. The boys loved to hear Susan tell the stories, and Anna gave life advice and application. The Academy was so appreciative that they buried the women with military honors and turned their house into a national shrine.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The song \u201cJesus Loves Me\u201d was written as part of a novel by the two sisters. It began as a poem that the lead male character sang to a dying boy in the novel the sisters co-wrote,\u00a0Say and Seal.<\/u>\u00a0The singer was a schoolteacher, and the boy was one of his students. The boy suddenly fell ill, and the family sent for his teacher. As the boy was dying, the teacher held him and sang the words of \u201cJesus Love Me\u201d to him. However, it was just words on a page. It was not until hymn writer William Bradbury read the novel that the little poem was given a tune. Thus came the popular children\u2019s song sung by children across the world and even in other languages and cultures. Taught by missionaries in countless missions, by Sunday School teachers to untold students, the number of people who grew up singing this song must total in the millions.<\/span><\/p>\n

\"Jesus<\/a><\/p>\n

\u00a0Little did the Warner sisters know, the little poem in their novel would become so instrumental in the lives of millions of children across time. How many children can say that \u201cJesus Loves Me\u201d was the first spiritual song they learned? More importantly, how many children attribute its lyrics to their spiritual growth? The impact this little song has had upon the world may never be known this side of heaven, but God keeps record to these dear ladies\u2019 accounts. –Courtesy of Melody Publications<\/span><\/p>\n

Pray this hymn brings back childhood memories.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n