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- «RIDDLE NO. 1»
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- Adam, God made from the dust,
- But thought it best to make me first.
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- So I was made before the man,
- A part of God's most holy plan.
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- A living "soul" I became,
- But Adam failed to call my name.
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- I did my Maker's law obey,
- Nor ever went from it astray.
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- Thousands of miles, I go in fear,
- But seldom on earth do I appear.
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- For purpose wise, which God did see,
- He put a living "soul" in me.
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- A "soul" from me God did claim,
- And took from me the "soul" again.
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- So when from me the "soul" had fled,
- I was the same as when first made.
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- Without hands or feet I go,
- I travel on from pole to pole.
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- From my presence a rain does fly,
- A cloud I form beneath the sky.
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- I labor hard by day, by night,
- To fallen man I gave great light.
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- Thousands of people, young and old,
- Did by my death great light behold.
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- No right or wrong can I conceive,
- The Scripture I cannot believe.
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- Although my name therein is found,
- They are to me an empty sound.
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- Now when these lines you slowly read,
- Go search your Bible with all speed.
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- For that my name is written there,
- I do honestly to you declare.
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- «RIDDLE NO. 2»
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- 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.
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- «RIDDLE NO. 3»
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- 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.
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- «RIDDLE NO. 4»
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- 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.
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- «RIDDLE NO. 5»
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- 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.
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- «RIDDLE NO. 6»
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- «RIDDLE NO. 7»
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- 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.
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- Answers can be found hidden somewhere in this program. Happy searching!
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- 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)