There's a Friend for Little Children
Introduction Sir John Stainer"'''There's a Friend for Little Children'''" is a hymn written by Albert Midlane. It was written on the evening of 7 February 1859, and was known as "Above the Bright Blue Sky" before it was published. It first appeared in a book entitled ''Good News for the Little Ones'' in December 1859.The original verses were arranged differently, and its tune "In Memoriam" was composed in 1868 by Sir John Stainer during a committee meeting for the 1875 version of ''Hymns Ancient and Modern''.
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