m back in the wilderness for forty
years of wandering. All this suggests important
lessons to the parents.

A series of tents can be arranged like the one
shown in the picture below (see also pages 209 and
271) and then, with one child in each tent the
questions can be asked. When a child fails to give
the correct answer, he moves down to the last tent
in the row, the other children move up, and the
question is passed to the child next in order, the
same as in a "spelling-bee" and other progressive
plays. Questions like those given on this page and
on pages =25= and =26= can be used; also questions
such as are found in the chapter on "Suggestions
to Parents," especially from paragraphs 50 onward.

[Illustration: The Children of Israel Camping in the Wilderness.]

THE ANCHOR.

HOPE THAT LAYS HOLD OF CHRIST.

SUGGESTIONS:--Object: Anchor of any kind. One cut
from paste-board would answer. During the week the
little ones might be interested to cut out both
anchor and the chain, using paste-board.

Before reading the following sermon, "drive to
church" and after the audience has been shown to
seats, begin the service with singing, have the
regular prayer and have one of the children preach
over the sermon at the church in the morning or
the object sermon of last Sunday.

MY DEAR YOUNG FRIENDS: I want to talk to you to-day about a very
important subject. The Bible speaks of hope, and says, "Which hope we
have as an anchor of the soul, both sure and steadfast, and which
entereth into that within the veil." (Hebrews vi: 19.)

[Illustration: The Anchor.]

I suppose most of you have been on board a ship or large boat. Very near
the bow, or front end of the boat, you have doubtless noticed a chain,
at the end of which was an anchor, made in the form of this one which I
hold in my hand. Now, I would not care to go out to sea on any ship
which did not have an anchor on board. In crossing the Atlantic you may
sometimes be out for days and weeks, and sometimes even for months, and
have no need of using the anchor. But all the time, while the weather is
pleasant and everything is moving along prosperously, the fact that the
anchor is on board the ship and that it can be used in