7 SEPTEMBER 1918, Page 12

CHILDREN'S HYMNS.

[To THZ EDITOR OE THE " SPECTATOR."]

Snt.,—Yon may think this worth recording for the benefit of those who undertake to speak to children, or write hymns for them. A mother repeated the hymn, " There's a friend for little children," and was stopped by the question of her three-year-old daughter : " Why were they so dirty? I suppose they had been gardening and had to change." Some of your readers will remember the lines : "Our earthly friends may fail us and

change with changing years."—I am, Sir, he., CANONICUS.