The first letter of each of the following responses will form the word used to designate the part of God’s earth where rejoicing and delights were once in evidence. [1] The number in brackets indicates the number of words in each answer.
1. One of the personal ingredients in one man’s crown of rejoicing. [1]
2. Something possessed which was not negated by failing resources, transforming sorrow into rejoicing. [2]
3. Something ostentatious but not compatible with true rejoicing, because of its evil connotation. [1]
4. A strange but significant comment concerning the words of the Lord which, upon finding, brought joy and rejoicing to Jeremiah. [4]
5. Something a group of apostles counted with worthiness, as they departed with rejoicing from those who had condemned them. [3]
6. Something the combined efforts of a priest and a prophet did in making Solomon king over Israel amidst much rejoicing. [2]
7. That which precedes the in-gathering of sheaves with rejoicing, when accompanied by weeping (a picture of an evangelist at work). [3]
8. Something that gives expression to rejoicing, as the mouth gives expression to laughing. [1]
9. A foreigner in Israel, that went on his way rejoicing. [1]
Answers to these questions will be found in the next issue of Christian Shepherd.
R. Erisman