How Happy Every Child of Grace CLEANSING FOUNTAIN—American folk melody ALIDA—Early American melody (arr. D. B. Thompson?) MATERNA—Samuel A. Ward How Happy Every Child of Grace 1 How happy every child of grace, Who knows his sins forgiven! This earth, he cries, is not my place, I seek my place in heaven! A country far from mortal sight; Yet O! by faith I see The land of rest, the saints’ delight, The heaven prepared for me. 2 A stranger in the world below, I calmly sojourn here; Nor can its