The first letter of each of the following responses will form the word that united an apostle with those he comforted by a certain mutuality. [1] The number in brackets indicates the number of words in each answer.
1. How are some who shall be comforted in a coming day identified in this our present day? [3]
2. The way things which are not usually thought to break forth into singing are addressed at a time when the truth that the Lord has comforted His people is universally known. [2]
3. The place of descent a mourning father, who refused to be comforted, anticipated as he wept for his son. [1]
4. One of the gifts that several brothers and sisters brought to a man as they comforted him at the conclusion of a very sore trial that had left him childless and destitute. [3]
5. How a man of considerable means in this life was being treated in “afterlife,” while at the same time, in full view, an acquaintance of his was being comforted. [1]
6. Those for whom a whole nation of mothers were weeping and would not be comforted, as foreseen in an Old Testament prophecy. [2]
7. Besides being comforted and charged, how else had a caring apostle demonstrated the father-children relationship to some early believers? [1]
8. The wife of an early patriarch who was comforted after his mother’s death. [1]
Answers to these questions will be found in the next issue of Christian Shepherd.
R. Erisman