Who for their unborn children care,
How happy and how wise!
They find, in answer to their prayer,
Instructions from the skies:
Their babes they from the birth restore
To him who first bestow’d,
To witness his almighty power,
To fight and die for God.
Who for their unborn child care
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled “Teach us what we shall do unto the child that shall be born.”—[Judg.] xiii. 8. Introduced in Charles Wesley, Short Hymns on Select Passages of the Holy Scriptures, Vol. 1 (Bristol: Farley, 1762). Published in The Poetical Works of John and Charles Wesley, Collected and Arranged by G. Osborn, Vol. 9 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1870), page 137.
Publishing: Public Domain