ANSWERS TO THE "FIRST THINGS" OF THE BIBLE 1. "Let there be light."-Gen. i, 3.

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2. On giving names to the animal creation.-Gen.

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3. The woman Eve.-Tim. ii, 14.; Gen. iii, 1.

4. The coming of Christ.-Gen. iii, 15.

5. Adam.-Gen. iii, 24.

6. Cain.-Gen. iv, 9.

7. Lamech.-Gen. iv, 23.

8. Adam.-Gen. v, 5.

9. Abraham.-Gen. xviii, 18.

10. Veal.-Gen. xviii,

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II. Abraham.-Gen. xxiii, 3, 4, 16, 18.

12. By Abraham in the purchase of land.-Gen. xxiii, 16.

13. By putting the hand of the person sworn under the thigh of the person administering.-Gen. xxiv, 2. 14. Ear-rings, bracelets, jewels, etc.-Gen. xxiv, 22, 30, 53.

15. Jacob at Bethel.-Gen. xxviii, 22.

16. Jacob, at the grave of Rachel.-Gen. xxxv, 20. 17. The embalming of Jacob's body.-Gen. 1, 2. 18. Aaron.-Ex. xxviii, 1.

19. Moses.-Num. i, 1.

20. The tribe of Judah.-Num. x, 14.

21. Saul, by falling on his sword.-I. Sam. xxxi, 4.

22. The house of the rolls, or books, the king's library. -Ezra vi, I.

23. Repent.-Matt. iv, 17.

24. Cornelius.-Acts x, 3.

OLD TESTAMENT QUERIES

1. Who built Ninevah?

2. Who suggested selling Joseph to the Ishmaelites?

3. What was the name of Joseph's wife in Egypt? 4. From whom did Moses receive his name?

5. Who built a monument in the middle of a river, and why?

6. What criminal in his confession said, "I saw, I coveted, I took"?

7. Who said, "As for me and my house, we will serve the Lord"?

8. Who said, "Ye are witnesses against yourselves"? 9. Who told his life's secret to a woman with disastrous results?

10. What is the most noted instance of devoted friendship?

11. Six women once took a journey which resulted in a wedding. Who were the bride and groom?

12. From what king's head did David take a crown and place?

13. Whose head was cut off and thrown over a wall at the suggestion of a woman?

14. Who does the Bible say had six fingers on each hand and six toes on each foot?

15. Who preferred in the time of trouble to fall into God's hands, rather than into man's?

16. Whose daughter was Solomon's first wife?

17. Who built Tadmor (Palmyra) in the desert? 18. What two Old Testament persons fasted forty days?

19. What queen sent a message with a forged signature?

20. Who destroyed the brazen serpent Moses made? 21. What labouring men were so honest that no accounts were kept?

22. By whom was Solomon's temple destroyed?

23. To which son of Jacob was the birthright given when taken from Reuben?

24. Whose faces were like the faces of lions?

25. What tribe furnished the counsellors of Israel? 26. What tribe of Israel was specially characterised by sincerity?

27. Who were the doorkeepers of the Ark?

28. To whom was applied the military title of general' 29. What king had eighty-eight children?

30. Who was in command of one million of soldiers? 31. What queen in Bible times is described as that "wicked woman"?

32. Who, of the Kings of Israel, was carried captive to Babylon, and brought back to Jerusalem?

33. What king of Judah had not seen a copy of the law till he was twenty-six years old?

34. What women helped to rebuild the walls of Jerusalem ?

35. Who said, "The Lord gave, and the Lord hath taken away"?

36. Who said, "All that a man hath will he give for his life"?

37. Who expressed a desire to be where the wicked cease from troubling and the weary are at rest?

38. Who said, "Though he slay me yet will I trust him"?

39. Who

says, "In his heart there is no God"?

40. Who acknowledges that the lines are fallen unto him in pleasant places?

41. Who said, "All men are liars"?

42. Who said, "He who ruleth his spirit is better than he who taketh a city"?

43. Who said, "A man that hath friends must show himself friendly"?

44. Who does the Scriptures say "cannot prosper"? 45. Who prayed, "Give me neither poverty nor riches"?

46. Who said, "There is no discharge in that war"? 47. To whom was it revealed several hundred years before that the Redeemer should be born of a virgin? 48. Who said, "The heavens shall be dissolved"? 49. Who lamented the harvest is past, and the summer is ended "?

50. Who asked, "Can the Ethiopian change his skin"?

51. What other nation besides Israel is to be scattered to all people?

52. Who was Belshazzar's successor as king of the Chaldeans?

53. Who said, "Ephraim is joined to his idols, let him alone"?

54. What prophet was a herdsman?

55. What prophet was sent as a missionary to the Gentiles?

56. What prophet said, "In wrath, remember mercy"? 57. What prophet said, "They save wages to put into a bag with holes"?

58. Who said, "At evening time it shall be light"? 59. Who asked the question, "Will a man rob God?" 60. What became of the golden calf set up by Aaron in the wilderness journey?

61. For how long did marriage exempt a man from going to war?

ANSWERS TO OLD TESTAMENT QUERIES

1. Asshur.-Gen. x, 11.

2. Judah.-Gen. xxxvii, 26, 27.

3. Asenath.-Gen. xli, 45.

You must be loving, kind and good,

And keep your wife in kindling-wood."

The first half is addressed to the wife, the second to the husband.

If a girl is in the centre, she chooses a boy, whereupon he kisses her and leads her into the middle of the ring.

MISS JENNIA JONES

This game is a very ancient one and must appeal to children's taste to account for its survival. One player represents the mother, who is seated with her daughter, Miss Jennia, in her arms, apparently ill. The rest join hands, advance and retreat, singing

Miss Jenni a Jones, Miss Jenni a Jones.

One of their number steps forward, and the Mother, laying her daughter down tenderly and coming forward, announces unblushingly that "Miss Jennia Jones is wash