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An Easter Acrostic: Saviour
SCRIPTURE ENIGMA, No. 132. 1. The name which Jacob gave to Luz, in memory of the Lord's appearing to him when he fled from Esau. 2. The wife of Moses. 3. A woman noted for her affection to her mother-in-law. 4. A man remarkable for his swiftness of foot, The initials give the name of a priest and ready scribe. SCRIPTURE ENIGMA, No. 133. 1. "Woe unto thee!" 'twas thus the Saviour spake, And named two cities; we the first one take. 2. Here the disciples Jesus' love rehears'd, Here it was men called them Christian first. 3. A church which had not yet the faith denied.
But sheltered those who to serve Satan tried. 4. Tell whilst Apollos was to Corinth brought, In what great city Paul the Apostle taught. 5. To what famed place did Paul a prisoner come And dwelt two years in his own hired house. 6. Here men were pardoned when they turned to God, And this displeased a prophet of the Lord. 7. A place where heathen superstition trod, Where was an altar to the unknown God. 8 His land who could alike in good or ill, In health or sickness, bless his Maker" still 9. Four hundred shekels was the price he paid, And in this cave the patriarchs wife was laid.
The city's name in these initials given Was once exalted; as it seemed to heaven:
But from its blest estate through sin it fell, And grace despised brought it down to hell.
SCRIPTURE ENIGMA, No. 134. 1. Three of the seven churches, deserts now, By man forsaken and by God laid low. 2. The ruler whom our Saviour taught by night, Because he feared to come when day was bright. 3. The man who ministered to Paul in need. 4. A youth who proved a man of God indeed. 5. Easy to bear if by our Saviour given. 6. The mount whence Christ ascended unto heaven. 7. That which in every christian home should reign. 8. The blessed name our Saviour died to gain. 9. The wife whose prayer a child from heaven brought 10. The Judge who watched her lips with evil thought. 11. A singer of sweet songs in David's time. 12. A place where refuge might be found for crime. 13. A lake enclosed by scenery sublime. 14. A pool where healing gifts were said to dwell. 15. A man who from an upper window fell. 16. An ancient town for commerce greatly famed. 17. The last who king of Syria was named. 18. A man who saved one hundred holy lives. 19. Then he who foremost in the battle strives. 20. Because his wife was deemed divinely fair. 21. The place which sheltered Jonathan's lame heir. 22. A queen who saved her race from death and sham 23. A King who from our Saviour's parents came.
The initial letters of each name will show, Dear words of comfort breathed by Christ below.
SCRIPTURE ENIGMA, No. 135.
Oh listen! listen to those pleading tones :
Two sorrowing mothers mourn their little ones Yet let us check the sympathetic sigh, Their errand glorious, and their mission high ; Unerring wisdom marks the way they take, And joy and praise in thousand hearts awake.
They die; but at their death a nation lives, And peace and plenty the great Giver gives.
SCRIPTURE ENIGMA, No. 136 Not within and not without ; Yet it could content One who sought to know about News to sinners sent.
Ah, bewarel The place is not A proper seat for all.
Few are safe in such a spot; One, alas! did fall.
SCRIPTURE ENIGMA, No. 137.
Oh skilful the workers, oh mournful the day, When within its recesses they hid him away, So gracious, so noble, the pride of the State, Their friend and their patron, the good and the great Oh wondrous the moment when forth from the land They bore it, fulfilling the solemn command; Still truly remembering the vows of the past, And keeping the long-cherished promise at last.
Oh great the rejoicing when, after long years, Its treasure unfolded still changeless appears; Unfolded awhile, then for ever concealed Till the day when the secrets of all are revealed.
SCRIPTURE ENIGMA, No. 138.
It is a word I love to hear, Though not of English birth:
A gentle word that fitly falls From hapless sous of earth- From patient souls that seek and love The help which cometh from above.
No plainer words, no simpler words, To baby lips belong; For turn this way, or turn it that.
You cannot turn it wrong; And yet the holiest lips were heard To utter first this simple word; Two letters make this simple word ; But oh! how much they mean; They touch our earth, they soar to heaven They span the gulf between; And when its mission here is o'er, This word shall reach the further shore.
SCRIPTURE ENIGMA, No. 139. 1. "A son and shield," is God the Lord, the sons of Korah chanted, And they record his two great gifts, to all the upright granted. What these shall be you soou may see by noting this sugges tion:- First to obtain an answer plain to every following question : I. 1. What Christian virtue stands the sixth in one of Peter's letters? 2. And who are they that scarcely saved one till to mercy debtors? 3. And how are hope and faith described in Christ securely resting? 4. And how does John describe the same God's faithfulness attesting? 5. And what God's sovereign purpose is that full determination? That make the greater serve the less and bring the Saint salvation?
The initials show-in one short row, for all the answers quoted- The eternal source and steadfast course of man's redemption noted.
II. 1. Then what is godliness combined with thankful moderation? 2. And what surpasses hope and faith in absolute duration? 3. What name of Jesus tells the end of earth's completed story? 4. Tell the reward of troubled Saints when Christ appears in glory ? 5. And what are all the promises to each believer spoken 6. When Christ himself is made of these the earnest and the token?
The initials quote and these denote the Saints' full joy and bless ings; When Christ appears, their toils and tears in endless life re dressing.
SCRIPTURE ENIGMA, No. 140.
The man from whose instruction St. Luke wrote.
The place where Miriam was smitten with leprosy.
The word that signifies, "be opened."
A mighty hunter before the Lord.
The man that went out to meditate at Eventide.
Moses' eldest son.
The third river of the Garden of Eden.
The city where St. Paul left his cloak.
The place where Nathanael came.
The man who helped Ahab to seek pasture for his cattle. Hezekiah's successor.
The place near Salem where John baptized.
The fellow-laborer to whom St. Paul said, "Let no man de spise thy youth."
The father of Lot.
The initials suggest a solemn warning.
SCRIPTURE ENIGMA No. 141. 1. What Priest his son-in-law did keep, To watch and tend his fleecy sheep ? 2. Who for a relatives resort, Prepared the temple's sacred court? 8. What servant did a King endow, With riches his esteem to show? 4. First named of two who prophesied, While Joshua to prevent them tried? 5. What name a water-fount received When an angel human grief revealed? 6. Who gladdened with a child a wife, And raised that child, when dead, to life? 7. Who had a son who God did save, While many found a watery grave?
Once in Samaria's lovely land.
In peace and quietude they trod And dwelt a holy prophet band, The servants of the living God.
But soon the Queen resolved in hate, Nor headed all their deep distress, These prophets to exterminate, Unmindful of their faithfulness.
But ere the wicked earthborn plan Its author satisfaction gave, The Lord designed a godly man Ilis persecuted ones should save.
The King's chief governor kindly led, And hid them in a hollow rock, And there with bread and water fed The Lord's preserved and faithful flock.
In initials you may read The queens unhallowed name; The finals show the men whose deed Will live in long recorded fame.
SCRIPTURE ENIGMA, No. 142. 1. Whose house gave refuge to a sacred thing, While Israel mourned and never murmured for a king 2. There with the poor, the leprous, and the vile, Was found our Lord's last earthly domicile. 3. This they broke up, to let the sick man through, And try what he, the sinners friend could do. 4. Seven Persian princes-this the third-had place Next to the monarch, and beheld his face. 5. Daughter of Israel, weep! thy Priests are slain He and his brother love the ark in vain! 6. Say, on what mount did all mankind combine In solemn sacrifice and songs divine? 7. There on that hill-top, see the patriarch stand; The victim bound by his obedient hand.
First the initials then the finals quote, And therein two acrostics will denote Who found imputed righteouness, and how Then go and follow his example now.
SCRIPTURE ENIGMA, No. 143. 1. From Paul they parted, ere their work was done; But mark the cause of strife was MARY'S SON. 2. Yes, but persuasion had the bait so gilded, That, just for once she looked admired and yielded 3. Of Judah's tribe Ahumai's brother see, But once inscribed in Shabals pedigree. 4. Some of her house conveyed to Paul sad tidings, Of the Corinthian's schisms and party tidings. 5. Thy daughter love him whom his servants slew But quickly was the treasure punished too. 6. What single sign is that, both ways the same What ofttimes stand for God's most glorious name The initials down, the finals up, Reveal a Name Of wondrous fame, Of one who hold the Priestly cup And breaks the bread and pours the wine.
And gives the benison divine And lo! a royal diadem Encircles now His lofty brow With glory from the God of Shem.
SCRIPTURE ENIGMA, No. 144.
The city in the siege of which Uriah the Ilittite was killed? The place where Baal-zebub was worshipped?
The metropolis of Ahab?
The city built by Solomon in the wilderness?
The Father of twelve princes?
The invader from whom Saul delivered Jabesh Gilead?
The place to which Jonah thought to flee?
The rebuilder of Jericho?
The man who rescued Jeremiah from the dungeon?
The author of the last chapter of Proverbs?
The mountain ascended by David when he fled from Absalom The mother of Armoni and Mephibosheth?
The birth place of Abraham's steward?
The initials will give a receipt of Consolation.
SCRIPTURE ENIGMA, No. 145. 1. 'Tis the loving friend of David who prepared, Stone and timber for the temple ready squared. 2. 'Tis the brother of a Priest, whose hasty touch, Cost him his life, and grieved King David much. 3. 'Tis the King of Eglon hiding in a cave, Where he quickly found his ruin and his grave.. 4. 'Tis his threshing floor that once became the scene, Of such mourning as in Canaan had not been. 5. 'Tis she that with the Mary's stood amazed, When into the empty sepulchre they gazed. 6. 'Tis Eliakim's grandson in the line Of a King whose last descendants were divine. 7. 'Tis the fifth of those great chamberlains that stood, To fulfil what e'er the Persian King thought good. 8. 'Tis the chamberlain who did the maidens bring, In their order, to the presence of the king.
When you these correctly frame, The initials spell her name, Whose rare beauty won her fame, Which her station could not claim.
What though Persia's royal dame Was in anger put to shame; And in virtue of the same, She a mighty queen became.
And her cousin's name as well, Who did near the palace dwell, Then the final letters spell And the royal records tell, How he did the treason quell; And the changes that befell When his adversary fell, Who with pride and wrath did swell.
SCRIPTURE ENIGMA, No. 146. 1. Four giant chiefs whom David's warriors slew Dwelt in one city bring its name to view. 2. Last of eight officers in David's court, One the chief ruler stood-his name report. 3. Second of twelve who furnished a kings table, Tell me his fathers name if thou art able. 4. When three old sages failed to answer one, This youth adventured, and the task was done 5. An oak, a wine press, and an angels visit, An altar, and a grave-behold! where is it? 6. Think of a Levite chief consumed by fire his next Brother' half require.
The initials downward, make his well known name.
Whose steadfast faith and dauntless courage claim To be by all remembered evermore:
His sword Israel put mighty foes to shame, His victories still Jehovah's power proclaim, Who still defend his people as of yore; The finals, upwards, meant the humble fame Of one the faithful servant of the same- Who did, with him, the hostile camp explore.
SCRIPTURE ENIGMA, No. 147.
My first descends From Heaven, and tends To make the gems of nature grow; My second bends And swiftly sends Destruction to a distant foe; My whole attends Where wrath impends God's covenant of peace to show; And beauty blends, And witness lends Of God's good-will to all below.
SCRIPTURE ENIGMA, No. 148.
My first is luscious, sweet, and round, And pleasant to the taste is found; My second in the forest grows, And bears an acorn or a rose ; My whole may in a vineyard stand, And well repay the planter's hand, Or else seem flourishing and fair.
And yet stand profitless and bare, Aud only mock the masters care So once when Jesus sought my first, Sought vainly-he my second cursed; And so my whole, with swift decay, Stood withered on that solemn day, That all might fear that passed that way.
SCRIPTURE ENIGMA, No. 149. 1 My name a glowing gem of price; 2 A "nothing" groved by man's device ! 3 What may not pass a needles eye; 4 And what we call the slowy sky; 5 What all thing have when gone and part! 6 And a rich odorous ointment last.
The initial letters joined will tell.
What men so often love too well, Yet lead down multitudes to hell.
SCRIPTURE ENIGMA, No. 150. 1. A place where the ark of God rested. 2. The Babylonian name of one of the months of the year, 3 A king one of whose governors wished to apprehend Paul, but failed to do so.
The initials both in order and reversed form the name of one who obeyed God, and caused others to do right. The third letters, with orders reversed, the name of one who disobeyed God and caused others to do wrong.
SCRIPTURE ENIGMA, No. 151. 1. Think of a precious sense in men? 2. Its duplex organs think of them? 3. What most befits the weary think? 4. And into what the wicked sink?