A type of modern parents see!
Our Saviour’s meanness we forget,
His death and passion on the tree,
Thro’ haste to make our children great:
Ambitious, that the highest prize
Our sons, with Zebedee’s, should share,
We wish them in the church to rise,
And win the first preferments there.
A type of modem parents see!
Hymnal/Album: Originally titled: “‘Grant that these my two sons may sit, the one on thy right hand, and the other on the left in thy kingdom.’—[Matt. 20,] v. 21.” This hymn appears in the 1766 manuscript “MS Matthew.” This manuscript is part of the collection of the Methodist Archive and Research Centre in The John Rylands Library, The University of Manchester (accession number MA 1977/577, Charles Wesley Notebooks Box 3). Accessed through the website of The Center for Studies in the Wesleyan Tradition, Duke Divinity School. Published in The Poetical Works of John and Charles Wesley, Collected and Arranged by G. Osborn, Vol. 10 (London: Wesleyan-Methodist Conference Office, 1870), page 335.
Publishing: Public Domain