“Can a Little Child like Me?”

 was written by W. K. Bassford with lyrics by Mary M. Dodge and was first published in 1877. Basswood was a organ and piano teacher, and a composer, but little more is known of him. This is a wonderful children’s hymn. It asks a simple question, and then proceeds to offer many possible answers to it. Answers that, even more than a century later, are still relevant.

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