One day a teacher overheard some of her small school girls asking riddles. They were all different and some had amusing answers.
At last one little girl named Barbara asked a riddle no one could answer-not even the teacher, listening in, could think what the answer could be.
The riddle was, “What is whiter than snow?”
“I know,” said one; “it’s a fleecy white cloud!”
But that was not the answer. Then another girl said, “The white of an egg beaten up!” Still another said, “A pure white linen handkerchief;” and yet another, “A pile of fleecy white wool.” But no one could give Barbara the answer she wanted. Both the girls and the teacher had to give up.
“Tell us the answer, Barbara!” they all cried.
Barbara was a little Christian girl and this was her answer: “A heart that is washed in Jesus’ precious blood is made ‘whiter than snow.’ " She had learned that at Sunday school.
ML-01/22/1978