One meaningful way in which children participate in worship is through song, especially through songs written for their unique abilities and interests. Children's hymns have been written for many centuries; studying this history gives us important perspectives for how Christians can include children in worship today.
Give me the making of ballads and I care not who makes the laws.
-Archibald Alexander, A Selection of Hymns Adapted to Devotions of the Closet (Family and Social Circle, 1931)....
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