What Child Is This?

Jamie Grace's reading keeps William Chatterton Dix's question-and-answer structure across the first two verses, opening with the same genuine uncertainty every version of this carol starts with: "what Child is this, who laid to rest on Mary's lap is sleeping?"

Rather than moving straight to the third verse, Grace folds in a different hymn entirely partway through: "'tis so sweet to trust in Jesus, just to take Him at His word, just to rest upon His promise." The two songs share a theme — trust in someone specific — without sharing an author or a century.

The magi's gifts still close out the original carol — "so bring Him incense, gold and myrrh" — and "the King of kings salvation brings" answers the title's opening question with the largest possible claim. Splicing in "'Tis So Sweet to Trust in Jesus" doesn't change that answer; it just adds a second hymn's worth of confidence in the same direction.