BIBLE CONTEST
The game of Bible Contest cards can be played very profitably and is very instructive. It can be found in any book store in large cities or can be had of the United Society of Christian Endeavor, Boston, Mass. The cost is very little. Or the cards may be written out as follows:
- Give the first and last words of the Bible.
- Whose three daughters were the fairest in all the land?
- How old was Methuselah when he died?
- Who was called "a ready scribe in the law of Moses"?
- Give the names of the three persons who were put in the fiery furnace.
- Who was the author of the expression, "What hath God wrought?"
- With how many men did Gideon conquer the Midianites?
- Who was Moses' brother?
- Who went down into a pit on a snowy day and slew a lion?
- Who said "The harvest is past, the summer is ended, and we are not saved"?
- Who was the mother of Samuel?
- Who commanded the gates of Jerusalem to be closed on the Sabbath?
- Whose flock was Moses tending when he saw the burning bush?
- What city was saved from famine by lepers?
- Who waxed fat and kicked?
Name.No.No.
Have the cards distributed; then on a given signal have the answers written out; as fast as finished have them handed in to be examined by the committee who afterward returns them. The first blank for number is for the order in which the cards are handed in, and the second for the order of correctness of the answers.
BIBLE EVENING
Here is a well-known alphabet of Scripture proper names, which may be utilized at a social by ranking the members on two sides, and reading these lines one at a time, in the same way that a spelling-bee is carried on:
- A was a monarch who reigned in the East (Esth. 1: 1).
- B was a Chaldee who made a great feast (Dan. 5: 1-4).
- C was veracious, when others told lies (Num. 13: 30-33).
- D was a woman, heroic and wise (Judg. 4: 4-14).
- E was a refuge, where David spared Saul (1 Sam. 24: 1-7).
- F was a Roman, accuser of Paul (Acts 26: 24).
- G was a garden, a favorite resort (John 18: 1, 2; Matt. 26: 36).
- H was a city where David held court (2 Sam. 2: 11).
- I was a mocker, a very bad boy (Gen. 16: 16).
- J was a city, preferred as a joy (Ps. 137: 6).
- K was a father, whose son was quite tall (1 Sam. 9: 1, 2).
- L was a proud one, who had a great fall (Isa. 14: 12).
- M was a nephew, whose uncle was good (Col. 4: 10; Acts 11: 24).
- N was a city, long hid where it stood (Zeph. 2: 13).
- O was a servant, acknowledged a brother (Philem. 16).
- P was a Christian greeting another (2 Tim. 1: 1, 2).
- R was a damsel who knew a man's voice (Acts 12: 13, 14).
- S was a sovereign who made a bad choice (1 Kings 11: 4-11).
- T was a seaport, where preaching was long (Acts 20: 6, 7).
- U was a teamster, struck dead for his wrong (2 Sam. 6: 7).
- V was a cast-off, and never restored (Esth. 1: 19).
- Z was a ruin with sorrow deplored (Ps. 137: 1).
BIBLE NAMES
Choose sides as in a spelling match, and let the leader of the first side give the first syllable of the name of some Bible character. The leader of the opposite side will then complete the name, if he can. Failing this, his side loses a member, selected by the leader of the opposite side. And so the contest goes on down the line, first one side and then the other proposing the first syllable of some name.