is the best criterion. The children who have heard these sermons have
enjoyed them, and have carried their substance and lessons home with
them to repeat to older ears.

They are offered to the public, therefore, in the hope that they may
suggest a method, add a little to the scant supply of material for
children's sermons, and serve to interest other children as well.

H.J.C.

_Orange, New Jersey._




A BIBLE-RIDDLE


Boys and girls are all fond of riddles, and I am sure you will be
surprised to know that there is one of the best riddles of all in the
Bible, one that is very hard to guess, and yet one that has a fine
lesson in it when I tell you the answer.

This riddle was told by Samson on his wedding-day, and nobody would ever
have guessed it if his wife had not let the secret out.

But first I must tell where Samson got his riddle. Well, one day with
his father and mother he was walking down the road to the land where the
Philistines lived. And according to the story, a young lion rushed out
at him from behind some bushes, and Samson, being a very strong man,