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SCRIPTURE ENIGMA, No. 59 In every clime, through every age, In history's eventful page.
My first will always rise to view, And wakes our love and hatred too.
My second and my third will each Express the self-same part of speech, And, though two interjections brief, May paint a world of joy or grief.
My whole most surely was my first; But far more brave and firm in faith, His wife a mighty patriot nursed, Who nobly died a hero's death.
SCRIPTURE ENIGMA, No. 60.
In finals and initials may be found The names of two, for beauty both renowned; The one, her days 'mid courtly splendors spent, The other, in a patriarch's lonely tent. 1. Who did in ancient times that city found, In Jonah's history afterwards renowned? 2. Who with Agrippa, to the judgment hall, Came with great pomp, to hear the case of Paul ? 3. Who thought to slay king David in the fight, But fell himself before Abishai's might? 1. Whose kindness to a prophet of the Lord, Met with a precious unforeseen reward? 5. Who did the Lord his vision bid to write, And make it plain that all might read aright? 5 Who did a queen, although his near of kin, Deprive of office for her grievous sin? 7. Who viewed his young opponent with disdain, Yet by that stripling's hand was quickly slain ?
SCRIPTURE ENIGMA, No. 61.
The letters constituting the following words, rearranged, will form the name of a murderer who fled from this country:- 1. The father of the inventor of organs and harps. 2. An organ built near Jordan. 3. A man one of whose kindred rebuked a good man.
SCRIPTURE ENIGMA, No. 62 The hiding-place of Jonathan and Ahimaaz.
The prophet who was a herdman of Tekoah.
Cain's grandson.
The judge who succceded Abimelech.
The prophet who foretold the destruction of Edom.
Hezekiah's name for the brazen serpent.
The place where Samson slew the lion.
Nehemiah's father.
Aaron's wife.
The city whence Sennacherib's ambassadors came.
The man of whom St. Paul says, " IHe was not ashamed of my chain."
The king of Syria who fought with Ahaz.
The tribe omitted when the rest are enumerated in the Book of Revelation.
SCRIPTURE ENIGMA, No. 63.
My first is oft prefixed to words, And signifies " beneath," My second's blessing is the Lord's, To save from sin and death; And planted oft on heathen soil, It well repays the gracious toil.
When patient Job prepared his soul To bow beneath the rod, Without reserve he gave my whole To meet the will of God.
SCRIPTURE ENIGMA, No. 64.
To solve the following questions, Write numbers one to eleven in rote; then bring The well-spent names of person, place, or thing, That answer these suggestions :- Nos. 1, 4, 5, 2, 8, 9- Range under these six letters The name of one found sitting next a throne, And riding second to the king alone; His feet once galled with fetters.
Nos. 2, 8, 9, 7, 6- Make that capacious measure, Viewed by the prophet as a woman's seat, Winged with the wind to her secure retreat.
The land of power and pleasure.