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«RIDDLE NO. 1»
Adam, God made from the dust,
But thought it best to make me first.
So I was made before the man,
A part of God's most holy plan.
A living "soul" I became,
But Adam failed to call my name.
I did my Maker's law obey,
Nor ever went from it astray.
Thousands of miles, I go in fear,
But seldom on earth do I appear.
For purpose wise, which God did see,
He put a living "soul" in me.
A "soul" from me God did claim,
And took from me the "soul" again.
So when from me the "soul" had fled,
I was the same as when first made.
Without hands or feet I go,
I travel on from pole to pole.
From my presence a rain does fly,
A cloud I form beneath the sky.
I labor hard by day, by night,
To fallen man I gave great light.
Thousands of people, young and old,
Did by my death great light behold.
No right or wrong can I conceive,
The Scripture I cannot believe.
Although my name therein is found,
They are to me an empty sound.
Now when these lines you slowly read,
Go search your Bible with all speed.
For that my name is written there,
I do honestly to you declare.
«RIDDLE NO. 2»
Five hundred begins it; five hundred ends it;
And five in the middle is seen;
The first of all letters, the first of all numbers,
Have taken their stations between;
And if you correctly this medley can spell,
The name of an ancient king then it will tell.
«RIDDLE NO. 3»
My center is nothing;
My first is my last;
And when the long ages
Are over and past,
Then vengeance divine
Shall devour me and mine.
«RIDDLE NO. 4»
Four heads have I, but body none,
And without any legs I run.
'Midst bliss supreme my lot was cast,
And joys that could not be surpassed.
Yet these delights did I forsake,
And far away my course I take;
Yet, while I wander far or nigh,
Still ever in my bed I lie.
«RIDDLE NO. 5»
In the water, in the air, and in the busy brain,
Busy once, but nevermore to hate or love again;
One of five, all like itself, in deadly deed united,
And yet delivering those in whom the LORD of Host delighted.
«RIDDLE NO. 6»
It is a word I love to hear,
Though not of English birth;
A gentle word that fitly falls
From hapless sons of earth -
From patient souls that seek and love
The help which cometh from above.
No plainer words, no simpler words
To baby lips belong;
For turn this way, or turn it that
You cannot turn it wrong,
Any yet the holiest lips were heard
To utter first this simple word.
Two letters make this simple word;
But oh! how much they mean,
They touch on earth, they soar to heaven
They span the gulf between;
To speak it humbly it brings no shame
To those who seek their father's name.
«RIDDLE NO. 7»
In many a bosom fondly nursed,
A fiery serpent is my first
When Jesus came for us to die,
He crushed this deadly enemy.
My second is a city's name,
Where Israel's host was put to shame,
Because my first still unrevealed,
Was lurking in their camp concealed.
Upon my whole, pronounced by heaven,
The knowledge of my first was given.
The chosen people gathered round,
And trembled at the dreadful sound.
Answers can be found hidden somewhere in this program. Happy searching!
1. A whale
2. DAVID
3. Gog (Rev. 20:8-9)
4. The river that went out of Eden (Gen. 2:10)
5. The stone which slew Goliath
6. Abba (Mark 14:36; Rom. 8:15; Gal. 4:6)
7. Sinai - (First: Sin; Second: Ai)