r on "Suggestions to Parents" on page 17 and
introduce some one or more of the play ideas which
have accomplished so much of pleasure and profit
in many homes.

Arrange chairs and "drive to church," let the
audience, both real and imaginary be shown to
seats, and after the opening service let one of
the children in his or her own way present the
lessons remembered from the sermon of last Sunday,
or recast what was said by the pastor in his
morning sermon. After the collection and singing,
let the children "drive home" and let refreshments
or some one of the Scriptural entertainments
previously suggested round out the pleasure and
profit of Sunday afternoon.

NOW, boys and girls, I have here some hickory nuts, walnuts, butternuts,
chestnuts, and filberts, or hazel nuts as they are sometimes called, and
I want to tell you something that I suppose God means to teach us by
these nuts.

[Illustration: Nuts.]

Many people remember that when Adam and Eve were driven out of Eden, God
told them that "In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread" (Gen.
iii: 19), and also that God drove them out of the garden to "till the
ground from whence man was taken." (Gen. iii: 23.) On this account some
people suppose that if Adam and Eve had not sinned it would never have
been necessary for us to work, but that is a mistake. If you turn to the
second chapter of Genesis, in the fifteenth verse, you will find that it
says, "The Lord God took the man, and put him into the Garden of Eden to
dress it and to keep it." So you see that Adam was required to work,
even before the fall. Of course his work was not as severe as it was
after he was driven out of Eden and his labor brought him a richer
fruitage.

Now, what do these nuts teach us? I think that most all boys and girls
like to eat hickory nuts and butternuts, and chestnuts and filberts, and
indeed all kinds of nuts. But did you ever stop to think that God has
made it necessary that we should crack the shell before we can eat the
kernel that is inside? God has purposed to teach us that labor is
necessary before we can eat even of that which He gives us, so on the
outside of this desired food he places the shell, in some instances hard
and difficult to be broken, in order to teach us that labor is necessary
before we can eat of His gifts.

Now