BIBLE QUIZ

Dear Boys and Girls,

As we look at the calendar, we can see that summer is rapidly passing by us. Each season is indicated on the calendar, but we are especially reminded of the words in Psalter 286, “The seasons are fixed by wisdom divine.” The days, weeks, and seasons are all ordered by the Lord. It is not always day or night, it is not always hot or cold, it is not always sunny or always rainy. What a great wisdom in ordering all these things for the benefit of man and beast!

In daily life we see that laws are made by man, and later require changes because they did not produce the expected results. But throughout the ages the eternal God has not had to revise the order in His most perfect plan. Many years ago the Lord promised Noah that the seasons would continue until the end of time. Just as those words have been and continue to be true, likewise all God’s words in His Holy Word, all that He has spoken, shall surely come to pass. Many laugh at those who believe their Bibles, and they would rather place their trust and confidence in the predictions of men. How foolish this is! May the Lord grant that we may understand His Word, and seek to obey Him.

The first letters of the answers will spell out the seasons of the year, as mentioned in the last verse of Genesis 8. All of the questions speak to us of time and seasons.

In the book of Ecclesiastes Solomon wrote, “In the morning______thy seed, and in the evening withhold not thine hand.”

In that book we also read, “To _____ thing there is a season, and a time to______ purpose under the heaven.”

There was a day when Job’s children were eating and drinking wine in their ______ brother’s house.

We read that the Lord Jesus was at Jerusalem for the feast of the______and it was winter.

When the angel appeared to him, Gideon _____wheat by the winepress to hide it from the Midianites.

_____died, and was gathered unto his people, being old and full of days, and his sons Easu and Jacob buried him.

In Psalm 74 we read, “Thou hast set all the borders of the earth: Thou hast______summer and winter.”

Adam and_____heard the voice of the Lord God walking in the garden in the cool of the day.

As Jonah sat outside the city of Nineveh, the sun beat upon his ______, so that he fainted.

As______sat in his tent door in the heat of the day, lo, three men stood by him.

The Lord said to Abraham, “At the time appointed I will ______ unto thee,...and Sarah shall have a son.”

John wrote, “I was in the Spirit on the Lord’s day, and heard behind me a great _____, as of a trumpet.”

Letters were sent to confirm the days of Purim in their times appointed, according as Mordecai the Jew and______the queen had

enjoined them.

In the palace of the high priest the______ and officers had made a fire of coals, for it was cold.

In the parable of the sower, we read that some seed fell among______.

Benaiah, one of David’s mighty men, slew a lion in the midst of a pit in time of______.

Jacob served seven years for Rachel; and they seemed_____him but a few days for the love he had to her.

In Psalm 104 we read that the Lord “appointed the______for seasons.”

While in prison in Philippi, at______Paul and Silas prayed, and sang praises unto God.

When ______came to King Eglon, the king was sitting in a summer parlour, which he had for himself alone.

In Psalm 118 the psalmist said, “This is the day which the Lord hath made; we will _____and be glad in it.”

When Jeremiah’s roll was brought unto king Jehoiakim, he was sitting in the_____ with a fire on the hearth burning before him.

Paul and the others left Melita in a ship of

Alexandria, which had wintered in the______.

Paul wrote Titus to come unto him to ______, for he had determined to winter there.

The Lord Jesus said, “When the fig tree’s branch is yet_____, and putteth forth leaves, ye know that summer is nigh.”

The two travellers said to the Lord Jesus, “Abide with us; for it is toward______, and the day is far spent.”

David’s prayer in Psalm 25 was, “______ not the sins of my youth, nor my transgressions.”

Your answers should be sent to:

Garret J. Moerdyk

5211 Woodmont Drive

Kalamazoo, Michigan 49001.

The answers to last month’s crossword puzzle are:

ACROSS:

1. Jacob —Genesis 28:11

4. Absalom — 2 Samuel 18:15-17

8. On —Mark 4:5

9. Hail —Joshua 10:11

10. Refused —Psalm 118:22

12. Give —Matthew 7:9

13. Wall — Nehemiah4:3

15. Ebenezer —1 Samuel 7:12

16. Grace —Zechariah 4:7

17. Do —Exodus 17:3

23. As —1 Samuel 25:37

24. Foundations —Revelation 21:19

28. Elijah — 1 Kings 18:31

29. Stumbling —1 Peter 2:8

34. See —Mark 13:1

35. Two —Exodus 34:1

36. Took —Exodus 17:12

DOWN:

1. Jasper —Exodus 28:15-21

2. Corner —Psalm 144:12

3. One —Mark 13:2

4. Answer —Habakkuk 2:11

5. Side —2 Samuel 16:13

6. Ligure —Exodus 28:15-21

7. Will —Ezekiel 11:19

9. Hewed —1 Kings 5:17

11. Feet —Joshua 4:3-9

14. Lively —1 Peter 2:5

18. Ox —Exodus 21:28

19. Foot —Matthew4:6

20. Fall —Luke 20:18

21. Zion —Isaiah 28:16

22. One —Matthew 18:6

25. Name —Revelation 2:17

26. Slew —1 Samuel 17:50

27. Cast —John 8:7

30. Us —Mark 16:3

31. Be —John 1:42

32. In —2 Chronicles 24:21

33. Top —Judges 15:8

Answers have been received from the following:

Bernie Bakker

Billie Jo Bakker

Trish Bakker

Carrie Bazen

Karrie Mae Beeke

Jeremy Boot

Melanie Bos

Stephan Bos (2)

Stephanie Bos (2)

Fred Brouwer

John Brouwer

Neil DeBoer

Peter DeBoer

Melinda DeMeester

Tamara DeMeester

Jackie DenDekker

Neil DenDekker

Arlen Den Hoed

Bruce Den Hoed

Glen Den Hoed

Sheila Den Hoed

Susan Den Hoed

Tim Den Hoed

Chantal Depatie

Jason De Smit (2)

Julie De Smit (2)

Michael De Smit (2)

Tricia De Smit (2)

Troy De Smit (2)

Andy Lee De Vries

Brian De Vries

Fred De Vries

Karen L. De Vries

Kristi De Vries

Stephen De Vries

Marco De Wilde

Anita Droge

Jacob Droge

Joleen L. Droge

Hennie Droogendyk

Hilde Droogendyk

Jeanette Droogendyk

Annette Dunsbergen

Gordon Eckhardt

John Eckhardt

Peter Eckhardt

Susy Eckhardt

Rachel Ekema

Geofrey Erkelens

Karen Erkelens

Remco Funcke (2)

Astrid Grisnich

Danny Herfst

David Herfst

Jason Herfst

Kevin Herfst

Carrie Hoogendoorn

Lisa Hoogendoorn

Shelley Hoogendoorn

Katie Hoogerheide

Charmain Huisman

Brenda Hulshof

Cindy Hulshof

Ronald Hulshof

Robert J. Hults, Jr.

Jeremy Kaat

Debbie Kanis

Gary Kanis

Kathleen Kanis

Ken Kanis

Frank Kardux

Janet Kardux

Rosemary Kardux

Karen Karelse

Michelle Karelse

Shirley Karelse

Jody Kegel

Stephanie Kegel

Jamey Klaasen

Michelle Klaasen

Monica Klaasen

Leann Klarenbeek

Hugo Kranendonk

Joanne Kranendonk

Cindy Kreft

Derek Kreft

Monica Kreft

Gary Krygsman

Joyce Krygsman

June Krygsman

Lisabeth Krygsman

Wilma Krygsman

Gregory S. Lubbers (2)

Pam Lubbers (2)

Steve Lubbers (2)

Nicole Renee Meeuwse

Marjan Muis

Alyce Nieuwenhuis

Rob Nieuwenhuis

Connie Nyenhuis

Jeff Nyenhuis

Karen Nyenhuis

Heather Peters

John Polderman

Carmen Post

Grant Post

Natalie Post

Scott Post

Todd Post

Vicki Post

Heidi Remijn

Sonya Remijn

Bryon Rose

David Rose

Jennifer Sue Rose

Darla Rus

Darlene Ann Ryniak

John Schelling

Pam Schelling

Renita L. Schelling

Ben Schipper

Eric L Schipper

Kristina Schipper

Matthew Schipper

Joan Scholten

Johanna Scholten

Margaret Scholten

Darryl Slingerland (2)

Diane Slingerland

Glenda Slingerland (2)

Kevin Slingerland

Marco Slingerland (3)

Susanne Slingerland

Andrew Slootmaker

Stephen Sporte

Sara Stalker

Joel Stam (2)

Nelly Stam (2)

Jonathan Ten Eishof

Tim Ten Eishof

Brenda Teunissen

Brian Teunissen

Lance Teunissen

Michelle Teunissen

Deb Van Bernden

Sally Van Bernden

Corrie Van Brugge

Linda VanBrugge

Maryellen VanBrugge

Peter VanBrugge (2)

Andre VandeBruinhorst

Lida VandeBruinhorst

Mary VandeBruinhorst

Danny VandeLagemaat

Louie VandeLagemaat

Ted VandeLagemaat

Jolene Vanden Berg

Leona VandenBrink

Louise VandenBrink

Jon VandenToorn

Kim VandenToorn

Lisa VandenToorn

Marsha VandenToorn

Michael VandenToorn

Tammy VandenToorn

Andrea VanderMale

Nathan VanderMale

Benjamin VanderMeulen

Dave VanderMeulen

Fran VanderMeulen

Bob VanderZand

Rodney VanderZand

Laurie VanEss

Lyle Van Ravenswaay

Trina Van Tol

Tim Van’t Zelfde

Robert Lee Van Veldhuizen

Sheila Van Veldhuizen

Janelle Van Voorst

Rachel Van Voorst

Corinna Van Wingerden

Marlene Van Wingerden

Edward Van Wyk (2)

Jeffrey Van Wyk (2)

Laura Van Wyk (2)

John Wesdyk

Karen Wesdyk

Chad Wielhouwer

Eric Wielhouwer

Leah Wielhouwer

Ed Ymker

Gregory Ymker

Janice Ymker

Jody Ymker

Kevin Ymker

And now to answer the letters again received:

Peter Van Brugge

It was nice to receive a letter from you again, Peter. Yes, there are quite a few things which we put off or neglect to do, but the Lord Jesus said, “One thing is needful,” and that we put off most of all. We may ask the Lord to make it our need.

Darla Rus

Your answers were all correct, Darla. We don’t give report cards like they do in school, but usually there are not too many mistakes. When you receive this issue of the Banner of Truth, school will have begun and you will know who your teacher is. Are you glad to be back in school?

Cindy Kreft

How many different flowers do you have in your garden, Cindy? The Bible also speaks of the names of flowers. Can you think of some? We may also read what Isaiah said about flowers in the fortieth chapter of his book. We hope some day, D.V., that we may visit you again.

Marco Slingerland

Did you have a nice vacation with your cousins, Marco? Where did you camp? I am sure that you saw some new and interesting things while camping, even things which you have never noticed before. Were the questions easier this time?

Remco Funcke

see that there are two letters from you, Remco. It happens that an answer and letter arrive just a day or so after I have sent them to the printers, and then they must wait until the following month. How many customers do you have to whom you deliver papers? The Bible tells us of rich men who were poor, and poor men who were rich. Can you name any?

Monica Kreft

We are happy to have you join in answering the Bible quiz with all the other boys and girls, Monica. It was many years ago that I was a boy and started answering the Bible quiz in the Banner of Truth. Even today I am still learning from Cod’s Word. That is why we can say, “Never too young and never too old to learn from the Word of God.”

loan Scholten

It was nice to hear from you, Joan. Our school in Kalamazoo is quite a bit smaller than your school, but we hope that it may also grow. We hope that also in later years many young people will say that they were glad that they attended our Christian schools.

Charmain Huisman

Even though late, our congratulations on your parents’s and grandparents’s anniversaries, Charmain. These events are again a time to acknowledge the Lord for His protecting care over us and loved ones, for it can be so different, as we can see all around us. May the Lord give many more.

Nelly Stam

What did you do this summer, Nelly? At the beginning of the summer, it seems as if there should be time for many things, but usually we are amazed how quickly the summer passed by. There are quite a few lessons to be learned in the story of Mephibosheth; don’t you think so?

Marco De Wilde

Not being a farmer, I really don’t know how much alfalfa is grown here, Marco, but I do know there is some. How many cattle do you feed on your farm? The cattle which we see in the farmyards as we travel through the country belong to many different farmers, but Psalm 50 tells us who the real owner is. Do you know?

Susanna Slingerland

Do you think you would have liked to live in the olden days, Susanna? I think it was much harder work than today. Or don’t you think so? It is true that the sorrow, and the sweat, and the thorns and thistles which God spake to Adam about have continued from then even until now.

Alice Engelsma

Congratulations on that birthday, Alice. We hope that you also may have many more of them. The book of nature is such a wonderful book for us, as you can read in one of the articles in this month’s issue. It speaks to us of God’s great power and wisdom in a special way.

Derek Kreft

Did all the eggs hatch, Derek? I always find it quite amazing to watch a chicken or duck break out of its egg. We were glad to hear that your grandfather was able to return home from the hospital. How is he doing?

Joel Stam

Do you have a long bus ride every day, Joel? How many buses do you have at your school? Not only the school itself, but also the busing is a major item of expense for the schools. How much we should appreciate it that parents, grandparents and others are made willing to make our Christian schools possible.

Again we have reached the end of our letters. Thanks for your answers to the quiz, boys and girls, and we look forward to hearing from you again next month. As you have started another school year, we wish you the help and the blessing of the Lord in your studies, yes, in all your studies.

With love,

Your friend,

“Uncle Garret”

PRAYERS LIKE PROMISSORY NOTES

Peter Mackenzie, a famous preacher, was noted for the replies he often made to those who favored him with remarks on spiritual matters.

“My prayers are not answered,” complained a child of God to him one day.

“Oh,” replied Peter, “possibly that’s because your prayers are like some promissory notes — presented before they are due.”

“Do not cease to pray” (Col. 1:9).

THE CONTINUED SERMON

“Is the sermon done?” said one member of the congregation to another.

“No, the preacher is done, but the sermon has to be worked out in our lives,” replied the practical listener.

“Those things which ye have heard, do” (Phil. 4:9).

WHY DID CHRIST CHOOSE JUDAS?

“Why did Christ choose Judas?” said an inquirer to Dr. Parker.

“I don’t know,” replied the doctor, “but I have a bigger mystery still. Why did Christ choose me?”

“Ye have not chosen Me, but I have chosen you” (John 15:16).

SCATTERING FEATHERS

woman once went to a minister and told him how she had spoken evil of her neighbors. He asked her to take a handful of feathers and scatter them to the winds. Having done this, he told her to go and pick them all up again.

That was impossible, she said, as they were scattered far and wide.

“So it is with evil words,” he remarked; “once they are spoken they can never be recalled” (Matt. 12:36).

SEEING JESUS

A minister, being unconverted, did not preach Christ to his people. One godly member of the congregation, feeling the great want in his preaching managed to convey to him a slip of paper upon which were written these words: “Sir, we would see Jesus.”

Before long the minister was brought to a saving knowledge of the truth, and at once his change of heart became manifest in the message which he brought to the people. Again a slip was conveyed, and the words written upon it were these: “Then were the disciples glad when they saw the Lord.”

YOUNG PEOPLE’S FRIENDSHIP

Part of a letter from a boy to his girlfriend.

I’m praying definitely for two things: first, that the Lord will give us wisdom in our relationship—even in the business of letter-writing.

Second, that as long as we’ve got anything to do with each other, that each of us will be an influence upon the other for closer fellowship with the Lord. I don’t mean that we’ll be preaching to each other—but just that our attraction for each other will be a means of attracting us more to the Lord. I know that’s the way you feel too.

WHY STRUGGLE

A planter had the cocoon of an Emperor moth, and one day watched it bursting. The magnificent creature was just about to emerge from its old grave clothes. He saw it struggle to burst its bonds, pitied it, and taking a pair of scissors, cut the old garment so as to permit it to emerge easier. So it did, but it was handicapped; it could neither stand nor fly. Its difficulties were simply for the purpose of giving it strength to rise above the world upon which it used to crawl.

So the saint’s struggles develop strength (Rom. 5:3; James 1:3).

DISMISSED BUT PROMOTED

Stephen Girard, the infidel millionaire of Philadelphia, one Saturday commanded his clerks to come the next day and unload a vessel which had just arrived.

One young man stepped up to the desk, and said, as he turned pale, “Mr. Girard, I cannot work tomorrow.”

“Well, sir, if you cannot do as I wish, we can separate.”

“I know that, sir,” said the young man; “I also know that I have a widowed mother to care for, but I cannot work on Sunday.”

“Very well, sir,” said the proprietor, “go to the cashier’s desk and he will settle with you.”

For three weeks the young man tramped the streets of Philadelphia looking for work. One day a bank president asked Mr. Girard to name a suitable person for cashier of a new bank about to be started. After reflection Mr. Girard named this young man.

“But I thought you discharged him?”

“I did,” was the answer, “because he would not work on Sunday; and the man who will lose his job from principle is the man to whom you can entrust your money.”

“Honor Me” (1 Sam. 2:30).

HOW HE BEAT THE INFIDEL

An atheist sent a young man a parcel of infidel literature, advising him to read it in preference to the Bible. His reply could not be excelled.

He wrote: “Dear Sir, — If you have anything better than the Sermon on the Mount, the Parable of the Prodigal Son, and that of the Good Samaritan, or if you have any code of morals better than the Ten Commandments, or anything more consoling and beautiful than the twenty-third Psalm, or, on the whole, anything that will throw more light on the future and reveal to me a Father more merciful and kind than the New Testament, send it along.”

A SLIPPERY ROAD

There must have been heavy rain during the night, then the skies cleared, and the water which could not run off the road very soon froze solid in long thick sheets of ice. So the next morning when I came along in my car, just a few days ago, the road was very dangerous; and when I came back in the evening I felt it was even more dangerous as it was now dark.

had just turned a corner and saw a long icy stretch of road in front of me. I thought that this road was just like my life stretching out before me.

Why did I think that?

Because if I had walked on that icy road I would very likely have slipped and fallen. And how easy it is for us to fall into sin! Especially if we think we will get on well in life by our own efforts. But could I not walk perfectly safely even on that slippery road if someone greater than I am had been supporting me from beside the road, always ready to steady me if I slipped? Believers have Someone who does just that as they walk through life. In fact, the Bible speaks of believers leaning on their Beloved One, Jesus Christ. It is the only safe way to live our lives.

Here is a verse for you to learn:

Hold up my goings, Lord, me guide in those Thy paths divine,

So that my footsteps may not slide out of those ways of Thine.

(Psalm 17, verse 5)

Make this verse your own prayer. And ask God too that He would make you one of His children, who believe in Him and lean on Him. —KDM

PRINCE OR SINNER

When the Duke of Kent, father of Queen Victoria, was dying his physician sought to soothe his mind by referring to the distinguished position in which providence had placed him.

“Remember, if I am to be saved, it is not as a prince, but as a sinner,” was his quick and correct reply.

WHAT MONEY CANNOT DO

A paper offered a prize for the best definition of the value of money. The following was the successful answer: “Money is a universal provider for everything but happiness, and a passport everywhere but to heaven.”

“Money answereth all things” (Eccles. 10:19), but heaven is “without money” (Isa. 55:1).

JOHN NEWTON AND THE DEVIL

When John Newton descended the pulpit on one occasion a person who had felt the force of the sermon leaned over and said: “A most excellent discourse, sir.”

Mr. Newton, conscious of the temptation to self-approval, replied: “The devil told me that, sir, before you.”

It is well to know “the depths of Satan” (Rev. 2:24).

MAGGIE’S TESTIMONY

On a bed of suffering lay a young woman. Her strength was fast failing.

friend bent over her and whispered, “Maggie, do you know me?”

No answer.

“Maggie, on what are you resting for eternity?”

Slowly the heavy eyelids opened, her face lighted up, and in broken words she said, “I’m resting in His love” (Zeph. 3:17).

TIME TO THINK

tract was offered to a business gentleman.

Giving a quick glance at it, he replied, “No, thanks, I have no time to think about such things.”

The distributor replied, “You have no time to think about such things! Be warned! God will give you eternity to think about them.”

“So then every one of us must give account of himself” (Rom. 14.12)

THE BIBLE IN MY TRUNK

few evenings ago I was present at a gathering where the conversation turned to praying in the presence of others. Some said that where two travelers happened to lodge in the same room for one night, it would look very Pharisaical if one were to kneel down and “say his prayers” in the presence of the other. The other party defended the propriety of it, and asserted it to be a duty. As an illustration, an incident was related where two members of a church—at home, prayerful men — both got into bed prayerless, for fear of praying before the other’s eyes. This conversation, which was very interesting, and in the course of which many striking illustrations were brought up to prove the healthy example of never neglecting prayer, led a clergyman present to relate the following anecdote, which I think worthy of preservation, and perhaps may do some good.

“When I was a young man,” said the clergyman, “I was clerk in Boston. Two of my roommates at my boarding house were also clerks, about my own age, which was eighteen. The Sunday morning, during the three or four hours that elapsed between getting up and the time for church, I felt a secret desire to get my Bible, which my mother had given me, out of my trunk and read in it, for I had been brought up by my parents to regard it as a duty at home to read a chapter or two in the Bible every Sunday. I was now very anxious to get my Bible and read, but I was afraid to do so before my roommates, who were reading a variety of books.

“At length my conscience got the mastery, and I rose up and went to my trunk. I had half raised the trunk lid when the thought occurred to me that it might look like over-sanctity and Pharisaism, so I shut my trunk and returned to the window. For twenty minutes I was miserably ill at ease; I felt I was doing wrong. I went a second time to my trunk, and had my hands upon the little Bible, when the fear of being laughed at conquered the better emotion, and I again dropped the top of the trunk. As I turned away from it, one of my roommates, who observed my movements, said laughingly, ‘What is the matter? You seem as restless as a weathercock!’

“I replied by laughing, and then, conceiving the truth to be the best, frankly told them both what was the matter.

“To my surprise and delight they spoke up, and answered that they both had Bibles in their trunks, and both had been secretly wishing to read in them, but were afraid to take them out lest I should laugh at them. ‘Then,’ I said, ‘Let us agree to read them every Sunday, and we shall have the laugh all on one side.’

“There was a hearty response and the next moment the three Bibles were out, and I assure you we felt happier all that day for reading them that morning.

“The following Sunday, about ten o’clock, while we were each reading our chapters, two of our fellow boarders from another room came in. When they saw how we were engaged they stared, and then exclaimed, ‘What is all this? A conventicle (i.e., religious gathering)?’

“In reply I related to them exactly how the matter stood; my struggle to get my Bible from my trunk, and how we three, having found we had all been afraid of each other without cause, had now agreed to read every Sunday.

“‘Not a bad idea,’ answered one of them. ‘You have more courage than I have. I have a Bible, too, but have not looked in it since I have been in Boston. But I’ll read after this, since you’ve broken the ice.’

“The other then asked one of us to read aloud, and both sat and quietly listened until the bell rang for church.

“That evening we three in the same room agreed to have a chapter read every night, by one or the other of us, at nine o’clock, and we were religiously adhered to our purpose. A few evenings after this resolution, four or five of the boarders (for there were sixteen boarders in the house) happened to be in our room talking when the nine o’clock bell rang. One of my roommates, looking at me, opened the Bible. The others looked inquiringly. I then explained our custom.

“‘We’ll all stay and listen,’ they said, almost unanimously.

“The result was that, without an exception, every one of the sixteen clerks spent his Sabbath morning in reading the Bible, and the moral effect upon our household was of the highest character.

“‘I relate this incident,” concluded the clergyman, “to show what influence one person — even a youth — may exert for evil or good. No man should ever be afraid to do his duty. A hundred hearts may throb to act right who only want a leader. I forgot to add that we were all called the ‘Bible Clerks!’ All these youths are now useful men, and more than one is laboring in the ministry.” ?

Garret j. Moerdyk serves as elder in the Netherlands Reformed Congregation of Kalamazoo, Michigan.

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