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The Brookiyn Sivine's Sunday
Sermon.
DR. TALMAGE.
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Subject : “The Shorn
son."
Locks of Same
Text: “Entice him, and see wherein his
oreat strength lieth, and by what means we
way prevail against him, that we may
and Brey to afflict him, and we will give
thee every one of us eleven hundred pieces of
silver "Judges xvi, 5.
One thousshd pounds or about five thou
sand dollars of our money, wers thus offered
for the capture of a giant. It would take a
skillful photographist to picture Samson as
he really was I'he most facile words are
not supple e igh to describe him, He was a
uoror and the de-
at a hon's jaw, and ye
i He was
{eatod, able
captured by
ruler and sis §
the = im an 3 idiculo
enough 1 riddle, and yet weak
enough be caught in
most loi ¢ MT,
enoug gsattie his debt, and yet out
rageousliy robbi i :
material
a crowning 1
There he nds, k ve oth
men, 8 mo p arms bunched
with mus te of a city:
taking an attitud { armed men and
wild beasts. His hair had been cut,
olled down in seven gr laits over
his shoulders, adding to his flex
terror. The Philistines want
hin, and theref must fi
the secret of his strength lies
There is a woman liviag in
Sorek by the name of Delilah. They appoint
her the agent in the case he Philistines
are secreted in the same building, and then
Delilah goes to work and cosxes
tell what is t of hisstrength. “Well”
he says, ‘if you should take seven
withes, such as they fasten wild beasts with,
and put them around me, 1 should be per-
fectly powerless.” him with the
seven green wit her
fhiands and says
tines and he
wera Do Impediunent.
and says “Now
this great strengt
snap
th
Vice,
hh to
somebody aise to pet the
1 miracie and a scofling;
1g shame
ed
v dati yit
aesan
Cer ess
to
i
ire they out where
the secr
So she
y
hes
“Th
walks
as though there
oaxes him again,
secret ol
“If vou
tell me the
1, and he 1
« that have
h them,
sther men.” She ties
ropes, claps her hands and shouts
Philistines He w § out as
easy as he did before—not a sin obstrue-
t She coaxes him aga he says
if you should take seven long
plai and by this ho m Weave
them int x. I conld not t away.”
the house loon: is rolled ug nd the shuttie
flies backward and forward, the
plaits of hair are woven into
«he claps her hands and says
the Philistines
He walks out
dragging a part of t
alter awhile she pe
truth. Hesays ity
or shears, and cut off this
be powerless, and in the 3
ples” Bamson sleeps, that
wake him up during the process of shearing,
help is called in. You know that the barbers
of the East have such a skillful way of man-
ipulating the head, to this very day they will
put a man, wide awake, sound asleep. [hear
the blades of the shears grinding aga
other, and I ses the long locks ng off.
Theshears, or razor, accomplishes what green
withes and new ropes and house loem could
uot do. Buddenly she claps her hands and
says: ‘The Philistines be upon thee, Sam
son’ Herouses up with a struggle, but his
strength fs all gone’! He isin the hands of
his suemies' {hear the groan of the giant
an they take hiseyes out, and then I ses him
staggering on in his blindness, feeling his
way as he goes on toward Gaza. The prison
door is 0] i giant is thrust in, He
site down apd puts his bands on the mill
whi with exhausting horizontal
nn, goes day alter day, week after week,
ftar mouth--work, work work
snsternation of the world is captivity,
his locks shorn, his eyes punctured, grinding
corn in Gaza. Ine previous sermon on this
character 1 lsarned some lessons, but another
class of lessons are before us now,
learn fi how very strong people are
sometimes axed into great imbecilities,
Samson had no right to reveal the secret of
his strength. Delilah's first attempt to find
out is a failure. He says: “Green withes
will bind me.” but it was a failure. Thea
be says: “A new rope will hold me." but that
also was a failure. Then he says: “Weave
my locks into a web and that will bind me.”
yet that also was a failure. But at last you
see how she coaxed it out him. Unimportant
actioms in lile that involve no moral princi-
pie may without injury be subjected to
ardent persuasions, but as soon as you have
come to the line that separates right from
wrong. no inducement or blandishment cought
to make you step over it. Suppose a man
has been brought up in a Christian house.
hold and taught sscredly to observe
the Sabbath,
fresh air. Temptation says: “Sunday
is just like other days: now don't be
bigoted; we will ride forth among the works
of God; ths whole earth is His temple; we
will not go into any dissipations: come, now,
1 bave the carriage engaged and we shall be
Pack soon enough to go to church in the
evening: don't yield to Puritanic notions:
you will be no worse for a ride in the coun-
&ry; the blossoms are out and they say every
thing is looking glorious.” “Well, {
to please you,” is the response. And out
they go over the street, conscience drowned
jn the clatter of the swift hoofs and the rush
f the resounding wheels. That tempted
Fan may have had moral character enough
to break the gresn withes of ten thousand
Philisthe allurements, but be has been over-
poms by coaxing.
Two young men passing down this street
came opposite a drinking saloon with a red
jantern hung out from the door to light men
to perdition. “Let us go in,” says one. “No,
I won't,” says the other; “I never go to such
places.” “Now, you don't say you are as
weak as that, Why, I have been going there
for two years and it hasn't burt me. Come,
come now, bea man. If you can't stand
anything stronger, take a little , Yon
nesd to ses the world ss it fs. 1 don’t believe
in intemperance any more than you. [can
stop drin just when I want to. You
shall go. Now, come right slang.” Persuasion
oplies
I she 1 be just
with
“They
nim the
Come
the
Now
. 2%
«8 OF as
So
and
long
him. Put
tell the
ake a razor,
long hair, 1 should
3 my ene
& rd
is of
she may not
nel $5
WE QRS LAM
ol
has conquered, the coaxing
agg there carnival in hell that night
sang tie and they shout: ‘Ha!
ha! ave got him.” Those who have the
i and most sympethetic natures are
0. Pitas. Jabs will bebe, i
ars vi
set. If you were cold and hana recs
in nature you would not tampered
with, People never fondle a hedgehog. The
tal Gi nover kisses
an The warmth and susceptibility
of your nature will ssoourage ie siren.
strong as a giant, out for
's selsors, Samson, the strongest
rg who ever lived, was overcame by coax-
ng.
Again, this narrative teaches us the
of ane
How deplorable the influence of such in
contrast with Rebecca apd Phoebe and Hul-
dah and Tryphona and Jephtha's dsughter,
and Mary, the mother of Jesus. While the
latter glitter in the firmament of God's word
like constellations with steady, cheerful
holy light, the former shoot like baleful me
teors across the terrified heavens, ominous of
war, disaster and death, If there isa divine
power in the good mother, her face bright
with purity, an unselfish love beaming from
her eye, a gentleness that by pangs and su¥er-
ings an holy anxinties has bean
mellowing and softening for many a
year, uttering itself in every syllable, a dig
nity that cannot be dethroned, united with
the playfulness that will not be checked, her
hand the charm that will instantly take pain
out of the child's worst wound, her presence
a perpetual benediction, her name our de
fense when we are tempted, her memory an
outgushing well of tears and congratulation
and thanksgiving, her heaven a palm wavin
and a coronal; then thers is just as great an
influence in the opposite direction in the
bad mother, her brow beclouded with
her eve flashing
fire, her lips the
Des and depravity,
lew and a blasting, her
coming generations, hes
ema, her
ind and a suffocation and a
ng headed, wrong heagfed
av ruin one child, and that
up, may destroy a hundred
hundrad blast a thousand
wl a millon? wife's
sphere is a realm of wr and power
Wo
ASEINE was
Lapid
was Deborah to
y Moses, was -Huldah to Shal
are multitudes of
of trade whese
the result of a wife's
hands have been wehisving t
two at the store two at
The burdens of life are compara
ight when the are other
A lift them The greatest
often slunk
« ayes tO le
What care vo
in the world as long
ecircie
nnsan
ernity a wl
~% Line wi
ane
almoy!
nnlimited. What a Sarah to
Abraham,
Zioporah t
There
been frugal
estate,
home,
tively
help us
ACR USS
orf
RWAY
them out
hard
Ave
ok
countenance
knocks
a bright J
One cheerful word in the evening
you come in has silenced sla
anpaid notes and the disappointment of po
nvestments Your table may be quite fru
lly spread, but it seems more beautiful to
; than many tables that smoke with ven!
: and blush with Burgundy
i at the door you at the table
thes evening stand, and sings in the
1 have seen an aged o
years have helped sach «
rimage going rn th
oiation has
They rejoiced at the same event
ver the same cradle
same ave in the even
ing of the past, m
father in his arm
riestio
the
Peace meets
beside
#
sits
ONY As
they bant « they wept at
hair at the
1 then a grandcl
look at him with affecti
» well nigh spol
The life currents be
and their wo
run hoe
y done and the
tdavs may ssp
arata them, i time of de
parture, they ther
aml
erarch
on the
Jacob
1h stand
miarked with the same Scripture, Chil
and grandchildren will
ring time to bring flowers,
own will come an 1
Srted worth, Side by «
Side bY
by t
itful fever ther slept +
But there are
for
log
sitar
Nite
is in
Hid
ast
ETE $
Job and Potiphar were their
ty Ahab was J ; rain v
lah y John Wesley was Mrs
Ramson was Delilah While the
lent and triumphant exhi
we find among the womes
world thrills with the nan
inette and Josephine, and Joan «
Maria Theresa and hunds
+h
srabel. to Jel
te
sweetest
ns with
rhitiest
wl, Margaret of
{ Elizabeth FPefrowna of Russia
have scorched the eve of history with their
abominations, and their names, likes banished
spirits, have gone shrieking and
through the world. In female biography wa
find the two extremes of axcellence and erime
ands nearest the gate of |
TE
Woman »
man canpot ard
rime she sinks deeper than man
can plunge. Yet [ am glad that the instances
in whic} man makes utter shipwreck of
character omparatively rare
But. says some cynical spirit, what do you
with those words in Ecclesiastes whers
says this bave I found,
reacher unting one by ons
find out the account; which yet my
ssaketh, but 1 find not. one man 3
thousand have I found, but a woman among
all those have I not found
that if Solomon had
common decency and kept out of infamous
circles he would not have had so
ulty in finding integrity of
acter among women and never
have uttarad such a tirade. Ever :
childhood I have heard speakers sc
Diogenes, the cynical philosopher who lived
in a t
Athens in broad daylight with a lantern,
and when asked what he did that for, said:
I am looking for an honest man” Now |
warrant that that philosopher who had
Bolomon Behold
saith the
soul
lantern and the tub, He
sxpatiating on the
immediately suspect
another Solomon
left out.
tratiops }
lency in
that there are no perils in woman's pathway
God's grace alone can make an
Grabam, or a Christina Alsop, or a Fidelia
Fiske, or a Catherine of Siena. Temptations
larkiabonut the brightest domestic circle. It
was no unmeaning thing when God sat up
weakness
him and say
with Solomon's
there
wisdom
ter of infamous Delilah
Again, this strange story of the
leads me to consider some of the ways in
which strong men get their Jocks shorn, God,
for some reason best known to himself, made
the strength of Samson to depend on the
length of his hair: when the shears clipped it
his . strength was gone. The stremgth of
men is variously distributad. Some-
times it lies in physical development,
sometimes in intellectual attainment,
in heart forces, sometimes
tion, sometimes in floan-
cial socumulation; amd there is always
a sharp shears ready to destroy it. Every
day there are Samsons ungisnted. saw a
young man start in life under the most cheer.
ing advantages. His acute mind was at
home in all scientific dominions. He reached
not only all rugged attainments, but by deli-
cate tion he could catch the tinge of
the cloud and the sparkle of the wave and
the diapason of the thunder. He walked
forth in life head and shoulders above others
in el stature. He could wrestia
with giants in opposing systems of philosoph
and carry off the gates of the oS
schools and smite the enemies of truth hip
andthigh with great slaughter. But be be.
an to tamper with brilliant free-thinking,
rn theories of the soul threw over
r ware upon him.
prison of unbelicf, his ayes ont,
Far back in the country districts just
tisars 1 puspomiy smi} thers was
born ene w jams will as long as
American institutions. name was the
slottars against good government attempted
bh bind him with green withes and weave his
locks in a web, vet he walked forth from the
enthrallment, not knowing he had burst
a bond, But from the wine cup thers
arose a destroying spirit that came forth
to eapture his son), He drank until his eyes
grew dim and his knees knocked together and
his strength failed. Exhausted with lifelong
dissipations, he went home to die. Ministers
prouounced eloquent eulogiums, and poets
sung, and painters sketched, and sculptors
chiseled the majestic form into marble, and
the world wept, but everywhere it was known
that it was strong drink that came like the
infamous Delilah, and his locks wereshorn,
From the island of Corsica there started
forth a nature charged with unparalisled en-
ergies to make thrones tremble and convulse
the earth Piedmont, Naples, Bavaria, Ger-
many, Italy. Austria and England rose up to
crush the rising man, At the plunge of his
bayonets Bastiles burst open, The earth
groaned with the so] Rivoli, Auster-
lite, Baragossa and Eviau. Five million men
slain in his wars
his feet, and kingdoms hoisted
arches to let him pass under, and Europe was
lighted up at conflagration Con-
suming cities could almost
made a of human bones
| tween on and Moscow. No
omnipotent God could
t out of the ocean of human
the
He
CRseEWAY
of
have
re than a match. The vary
had ro
yer It grasped for too much
lost all
am
{i bition ths
| ba his des
| and its effor
| the ere
and fe to desolatic and banish
ment 18 Ax
| storm, to-day }
| crew go up to
exile expired in
| the mightiest of all Sam
| by ambition, that mo
| Delilahs,
I have
| ASSOC
0 mn
ie
wuts up in 8t. Helena and
lonel and
orn
ness
ons sl
isgrace
'
not time fo enumerate
sudden suce
| habits, miserly proclivities and
{ are the names of the shears
{ which men are every day made power!
| They have strewn the earth with the
| casses of giants and filled the great
{ house with destroved
| grinding the f 4d
| shorn and
knew to hat tempts
| were subjected they w
{ in their pravers and
i example. No young!
pathway « sin pictu
2
be!
fons, AOS, dthrify
some of
Hamsons,
mi
nr
ore him
TT firet tim i gy
Phe fret tims | aver
of
BAW A ¢
I was a
Philadelphia
’ ) Y
remetits
ied me with i :
11
Hie wants
He painted
like & i
r I was green
v me the sights of the t
path of sin until it k
I was afraid «
wn
wig eed
Is
I made my
I remember w hie
| round in front of and with a
and diabolical effort attempted to desty
| 1; but there were good angel
{ that night. It was no
| part, but it was the all npassing
{ a good God that « vered me, Bows
ware! OO) youn
There is a way mn
but the end th if all th
mpure lands
ere] together, they
A & th
wed ba
asiliak
RELIINK
good reso!
encOT
seemeth right
of
3 rig
is death
life in al ar
Hil Oe g
host vaster than that whic
the Hellespont, than
lin, than William ti
F land, than Al
think the
a boa
whirw
I say this 1
any .
¥ $
pat
for the
that has gor
becanse [| want t
aintain
nation of i
se who ot
The cases oof rev
given
are so few robat
them
that roa
tack?
as if the = : §
any ¢ r the % “m
+ font
God
are } wed
They
op
have are i th
ched st the waist
Tod
is 1
y+ dome: every
ried tongues strike thesn
break away until the ter
i amide
4 hey ory © Take
» my father's he ,
Take me home’
Do I stand before a
{f whose
me tell you
struction take Your mi
integrity ir
pinning to curl on that red 1
day in the name of Almighty God 1
off the beautifying veil and the
broidered mantle of this oid hag £
niquity, and 1 show you the
the bloody ichor and the can {
nd the parting joints and the macerated
Himba and the wriggling putrefaction, and I
ry out: Ob, horror of horrors! In the sti
ness of this Sabbath hour I lif a warn
Hemember 1t is much easier
habita than to get clear of them
min of time you may get into a oh
i sternity « t you out
voice of God's truth
Hinh
strength are
CROCK
wo
Gicers
ered
to form
18m Fe
nnot
om
atl
nor ana Gom OT
¥ reign, rater than trave
lungecn, wi
{asta
ere fhe desir
their lock
The Came of Measenger.
3
The party are seated in line, or round
the side of the room, and someone pre-
pointed enters with the mes-
master
madam,” or “sir,”
directed to any individual he may se-
at his option. “What for?” is
“To doas I do.”
Yie
me
i the Cag: may bye >
#ONAs to von
or gentleman must imitate—say
with one foot incessantly on the floor.
commands his neighbor to the right or
to the left to “Do as I do,” also, and so
on until the whole company is in mo-
tion, when the messenger leaves the
room, re-entering it with fresh injunc-
tions. While the messenger is in the
room he must see the master’s will
obeyed and no one must stop from the
movement without suffering a forfeit,
The messenger should be someone in-
genious in making the antics ludicrous
and yet keep within moderate bounds,
and the game will not fail to produce
shouts of laughter.
Another game, of much the same
character, is known by the title, “Thus
says the Grand Seignor.” The chief
difference is that the first player is sta-
tioned in the conter of the room and
prefaces his movements, which the
others must all follow, by the above
words, If he varies his command by
framing it, ‘+o says the Grand Seig-
nor,” the party must remain still and
decline to follow ls examples. Any-
one who moves when he begins with
“80,” or does not follow him #hen he
commences with “Thus,” has to pay a
forfeit.
Ix all negotiations of difficulty, a man
may not look to sow and reap at once,
but must prepare business, and so ripen
| it by degrees.
ES OW I
MINING AT NIGHT.
Industrious Tollers Working EBe~
neath the Surface of the Earth.
A small door-way, made of upright
logs and a crossbeam, marks the en-
trance to the leading mire in the heart
of the anthracite region, It is located
on the mountain road just above Black
Jeddo, in Luzerne County, a place
made notorious during the Molly |
Maguire reiga. In company with an
experienced guide with a small miner's
lamp suspended from hat band, a tour
ist enters the dreary, cavernous depths
of night, As his eyes become accus-
tomed to the darkness, making his way
over rivulets of running water and
stumbling over shining pleces of}
anthracite, he reaches the railroad |
track which connects the toiler in this |
underground work-shop with
workmen in the mammoth |
untain
of such magnitude that |
the ten-story structures hestnut
street into insignificance when
compared with it,
I'he sharp whistle of the l
side |
building
on {
sink
ittle
\ idl : ¥ oh x 11g h
I Winds 1s way through
sss of the mine
give it room Lo pass, and the t
Omers
urist
ips into the ditch and presses
with
the
s
hard, black
scooping up
the powdered ust until a suflicent
depth Is reached, explosive
is i
and the warning
All rush fi
He flat on thegroul
material ser Led,
Cry
ir shelter
oecK |
IAs Ceated
mass thus detached
mail train of c¢
with pick
redue
or handiing.
Aare
IRDOTers
edge |
alnmer
' OWes
ing aga:n
ing un in t
GE up in LO
breaker,
worke
hi is brought
handled by a
hiladeiphia Press,
a—
Libetty Bell,
xcitement
thronged
American freedom.
¢ barred doors and closed
{ ti will
they knew the d
them, awaited
to announce
With eager
tial d
dreadful
' 14
issentient
1 people
v, foi
the signal which was
fate of the bill,
eyes leaping from thoughtful doubt
hearty anticipation, the faces
multitude are turned upward
steeple of the state house; for
to
of the
to the
Qe there
ht from London near.
ly a quarter of a century previous, bear.
prophetic from
XXvV, liberty
all the inhabi-
ing this
Leviticus
inser plion
“Proclaim
The multitude heaves like the ocean
under a premonitory throb and shiver
of the storm, A murmurous buzz
breaks through the red brick walls and
What, what does it por-
the
tend? Tongueless and breathles
house. What is the noise? Ab, it is
the first spasm of the infant Hercules
just born to the world
noise, a swinging noise; keep breath, ye
ing democrats of Europe awake
The bell tolls!
And then the enchantment
broken,
for the republic was born, and the
thirteen colonia! sponsors rose with be-
coming dignity into nations and pre-
pared to fight for the birthnght pro-
claimed to the world, —John Savage.
In the last number of Naturen, Herr
Geelmuyden of Christiania describes the
so-called giant bowls of Orhelm, on
the east side of Christiania fjord,
These curious geological formations are
not only the largest of their kind in
Seandinavia, but are of greater size
than those of the well-known glacier
gardens of Lucerne, which bave hith-
erto been considered as the most exten-
81% of such natural depressions. In
two of the upper cavities at Orholm a
few pine and birch trees have taken
root and grown in a tolerably normal
mavnner till they reached the level of
the surrounding rock, when the
branches bave invariably been bent and
distorted by the force of the winds, and
their growth has been arrested, The
depth of the depressions has not been
determined,
SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON,
Buspar Ocronen 13, 1553,
The Ark Brought to Zion.
LESSON TEXT.
2 Bam. 0 : 1-12. Memory verses, 11, 13)
LESSON PLAN,
Toric or THE QUARTER :
and Adversity.
Gorpex Texr vor THE QUARTER:
long as he sought the Lord, God made
him to prosper.—2 Chron. 26 : {
IR
Lie
sox Toric
forth his hand to the
of God.”
(2) Uzzah's presumption.
sacred ark; (2) The
ark
tion;
The
act
2. “(3od smote him there for hiserror.”
(13) The act: (2) The guilt; (3) The
penalty,~{(1) An erring man; (2)
An avenging God.
3. “How shall the ark of the Lord
come unto me?” (1) Desire; (2
Delay; (3) Perplexity; (4) Inquiry.
Care 1 BE
111. OBED-EDOM'S PROSPERITY.
1. The Blessed Household:
The Lord blessed Obed-edom, and all
his house {11}.
The Lord hath blessed me for thy sake
(Gen. 30: 27).
The Lord blessed the Egyptian’s house
(Gen. 39: 5).
The Lord blessed the house of Obed-
edom, and all that he had (1 Chron.
13: 14).
The blessing of the Lord, it maketh
rich (Prov, 10: 22).
11, The Cheering Message:
It was told king David (12).
This day is a day of good tidings (2
Kings 7: 9).
How beautiful. .. .the feet of him that
bringeth good tidings (Isa. 52: 7).
I bring you good tidings of great joy
{Luke 2: 10).
We bring you good tidings of the
promise Acts 13: 82).
111. The Restored ark:
David went and brought up the ark
.. .. with joy (12).
So David and all. .. Israel brought up
the ark (2 Sam. 6: 15),
They brought in the ark. ...and set it
in ite place (2 Sam. 6: 17),
no
David prepared a place for the ark
{1 Chron. 15:1
He appointed cortain to minister
bolore the ark (1 Chron. 16: 4).
1. “The Lord blessed Obed-edom, and
all his house.” (1) Faithful service;
(2) Generous reward, —{(1)The ark
as honored by men; (2) The ark ns
nonored by God,
“It was told king David.” (1 y Crood
news; (2) Faithful recital; (3) Splen
did results,
“David went and brought u
art with joy.” (1)
effort; (2) Buccemsful effort;
effort.—(1) David's
(2) David's final sucoes
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Department in Good House.
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led i he department will
be devoted nomics and the
relation of women to this subject, and
will discuss every phase bearing upon
life. the problem at present in.
volved in domestic service, being one
pressing. It is vitally im-
portant that women should confer upon
inter
ial oe
daily
stage whore concentrated action against
it is imperative. It hopesalso, to prove
itself the natural channel of communi-
this end Mrs. Campbell invites the
sending of reports of any special organs
published by clubs or exchanges or any
detail which oan be of value or interest
to women workers as a whole.
Mrs. Helen Campbell, 135 West 103rd
8t., New York city, will be glad to re-
ceive any communication upon these
subjects to be used in the new depart.
ment of Good Housekeeping entitled,
Woman's Work and Wages.
ASA WIA 540205.08
Mus benefit the cause of honesty and
sincerity of speech by accepting with
gentleness, calmness, and courtesy all
that may be brought forward in oppo-
sition to their views or in eriticism of
their conduct. Thus in many ways may
what they esteem evil be turned into
good; or rather the real truth that is in
it may be gethered and developed,
while, the chaff will, by the same pro-
cess, be blown away. “There is somo
soul of goodness in things evil, would
men ebservingly distil it ont.”
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