{"id":3811,"date":"2025-12-13T19:18:57","date_gmt":"2025-12-13T19:18:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/treasurehymns.com\/en\/2025\/12\/13\/hymn-503-the-sweet-story-of-old-lyrics\/"},"modified":"2025-12-13T19:18:58","modified_gmt":"2025-12-13T19:18:58","slug":"hymn-503-the-sweet-story-of-old-lyrics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/treasurehymns.com\/en\/all-believer-hymn-book\/hymn-503-the-sweet-story-of-old-lyrics\/","title":{"rendered":"Hymn 503 THE SWEET STORY OF OLD Lyrics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>All Believer Hymn Book<\/p>\n<p>Hymn 503 THE SWEET STORY OF OLD Lyrics<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>1. I think when I read that sweet story of old<br \/>\n\tWhen Jesus was here among men,<br \/>\n\tHow He called little children as lambs to His fold,<br \/>\n\tI should like to have been with them then,<br \/>\n\tI should like to have been with them then;<\/p>\n<p>\t2. I wish that His hands had been placed on my head,<br \/>\n\tThat His arm had been thrown around me;<br \/>\n\tAnd that I might have seen<br \/>\n\tHis kind look when He said<br \/>\n\t&#8220;Let the Little ones come unto Me.&#8221;<br \/>\n\t&#8220;Let the little ones come unto Me;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\t3. Yet still to His footstool in prayer I may go,<br \/>\n\tAnd ask for a share in His love;<br \/>\n\tAnd if I now earnestly seek Him below,<br \/>\n\tI shall see Him and hear Him above.<br \/>\n\tI shall see Him and hear Him above;<\/p>\n<p>\t4. In that beautiful place He is gone to prepare,<br \/>\n\tFor all that are washed and forgiven:<br \/>\n\tAnd many dear children are gathering there,<br \/>\n\tFor &#8220;Of such is the kingdom of heaven.&#8221;<br \/>\n\tFor &#8220;Of such is the kingdom of heaven;&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All Believer Hymn Book Hymn 503 THE SWEET STORY OF OLD Lyrics &nbsp; 1. I think when I read that sweet story of old When Jesus was here among men, How He called little children as lambs to His fold, I should like to have been with them then, I should like to have been [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[118],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3811","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-believer-hymn-book"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/treasurehymns.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3811","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/treasurehymns.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/treasurehymns.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/treasurehymns.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/treasurehymns.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3811"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/treasurehymns.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3811\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5311,"href":"https:\/\/treasurehymns.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3811\/revisions\/5311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/treasurehymns.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/treasurehymns.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/treasurehymns.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}