|S N——. —— THE BROOKLYN DIVINE'S SUN. DAY SERMON, “The Shorn Looks of Same. son." Subject: TEXT: “Entice him, and see wherein his great strength lieth, and by what means we may prevail against him, that we may bind him to afftict him; and we will give thes every one of us eleven hundred pieces of sii er Judges xvi., 5 One thousabd pounds or about five thou- | sand dollars of our money, were thus offered for the capture of a giant. It would take a skillful photographist to picture Samson as he really was ‘he most facile words are not supple enough to describe him. He was giant and a child; the conquoror and the de- feated, able to snap at a lion's Jaw, and vet captured by the sigh of a maiden He was ruler and slave; a commingling of virtue and vice, the sublime and the ridic ulous; sharp enough to make a good riddle, and vet wea fnrugh to be caught in the Ost superficial stratagem ; honest enough to his debt, and yet out rageously robbing somebody else to get the material to pay it; a miracle and a scofling: a crowning glory and a burning shame There he stands, looming up above other men, a mountain of flesh: his arms bunched with muscle that can lift the gate of a city; taking an attitude defiant of armed men and wild beasts, His hair had never been ¢ ut, and it rolled down in en great plaits over his lders, adding to his flerceness torr The Philistines want to him, and therefore they must fi settle congue nd out where the valley of 1. They appoint I'he Philistines same building. and ti vork and coaxes Sams in They lid bef him to tell id take a rs long hair, I sh we hands of my eps, and that she may ng the process of shearing, ‘ou know that the barbers ch a skillful way of ma to this very day they will aslew] ] ipulating the | put a the b heat against eacn falling off SHeRrs, or razor, accom es and w and | Suddeniy she claps her hs The Phi b He ronses up with a struggle, but his gth is all gone! He isin the hands of ar the groan of the giar eves out, and then | see his blindness, feeling hi toward Gaza. The prison door is opened and the giant is thrust in. He sits down and puts his hands on the crank, which, with exhausting horiz motion, goes day after day, week after week onth after n th—work, work work winsternat { the world is captivity his locks shorn, his eves punctured, grinding corn in Gaza. In a pre character | learned w= class of lessons are before Learn first how very str ng people are times coaxed into great ri ft to reveal the Delilah’s first attempt to ‘ He says: “Green but it was a failure he says A new rope will hold me.” b iso was a fallure. Then he savs my locks into a web and that will yet that also was a £1 But at last v see how she coaxed it him, Unimportant actions in life that involve no moral princi ple 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 « ught to make you step over it Suppose a man has been brought up in a Christian hold and taught sacredly to the Sabbath, Sunday comes: ‘ fresh air. Temptation says ‘Sunday is just like other days: now don't be bigoted ; we will ride forth am: ng the works of God: the wh earth is His temple will not go into any dissipations; come, now I have the carriage engaged and we shall be back soon enough to go to church in the evening: don't yield to Puritanie notions: You will be no worse for a ride in the coun try: the blossoms are out and they say every thing is looking glorious.” “Well, 1 will go to please you" is the response. And out they go over the street, conscience drowned In the clatter of the swift hoofs and the rush of the resounding wheels. That tempted man may have had moral character enough to break the green withes of ten thousand Philistine allurements, but he has been ov er cote by coaxing Two young men passing down this strest came opposite a drinking saloon with a red lantern vo out from the door to light men to perdition. “Let us go in.” says one “No, I won't,” says the other: “I never £0 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 hurt me, Come. come now, bea man. If you can't stand anything stronger, take a little sherry. You need to see the world asit is. 1 don't believe In intemperance any more than you. [ean stop drinking just when | want to. You shall go. Now, come right along.” Persuasion has conquered. Samson yields to the coaxing and there is carnival in hell that night jnong the Philistines and they shout: “Ha! ha! Fe've got him.” Those who have the kindest and most sympathetic natures are the most in danger Your very disposition to please ofhars will be the very trap they set If you were cold and harsh and severs in nature you would not be tampered with. People never fondle a hedgehog. The most sentimental Greenlander never kisser an icasberg. The warmth and susoaptibility of your nature will encou the siren. ugh strong as a gant, k out for Delilah's scissors, Samson, the strc BOW Pov tse loom stines be upon Sau * ROes On Ys 10 Jessons srmon on t but anotl 1s now imbecilities sret will bind me We bind house observe you want we _ man who ever lived, was overcome by coax. ing. REV. DR. TALMAGE. How deplorable the influence of such in contrast with Rebecca and Phoebe and Hul- dah and Tryphona and Jephtha's daughter, 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 formar shoot like baleful me. | teors across the terrified heavens, ominous of | war, disaster and death, If thers isa divine | power in the good mother, her face bright with purity, an unselfish Jove beaming from | | her eye, x gentleness that by angs and suffer. | [ings and holy anxieties has been | ! 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 bs checked, Ler hand the charm that will instantly take pain out of the child's worst wound. her presence a perpetual benediction, her nawe our de fense when we'are tempted, her memory an outgushing well of tears and congratulation and thanksgiving, hier heaven a palm waving | and a coronal: then there is just as great gn influence in the opposite direction in the bad mother, her brow beclouded with ungovernad passion, her eye flashing with unsanctified fire, her lips the fountain of fretfulness and depravity, her example a mildew and a blasting, he name a disgrace to coming generations, her memory a signal for bitterest anathema, her eternity a whirlwind and a suffocation and a darkness. One wrong headed, wrong hearted mot} may ruin child, and that child, grown up, may destroy a hundred people, and the hundred blast a thousand and the thousand a million. The wife's sphiera is a realm of honor and power almost unlimited. What a blessing was Sarah to Abraham, was Deborah to Lapidoth, was Zipporah to Moses, was Huldah to Shallum There multitudes of men in the marts ff trade whese fortunes have the r of a wife's frugality hands been achieving that two two th La are one one are heen sit have at the burdens Four estate home store at of life when there lift them often « eves to look What care vorld as lo The compara tively i hands to help us arate ti Artur ide ti Hachel be Eras alike marks iren and spring time to | of the t their aear wn w But there are mestic to Job and P to Ahab was Jes liah, to John Samson lent and we find a world thr toinette and Josephine, an Maria Theresa and hund in sownes not raed When ad of Christian eleva attain Bivi Wher leesper than ma an piunge At the instance in which won na kes shipwreck haracter are comparatively rare ut some cynical spirit those wor in Ecclesiastes : say Behold, this have I fi preacher wanting one by the Kn wih h but 1 fin ! one man but a we found My had behaved himself and kept out of infam mid not have had so mn in finding integrity mg women and never w have uttered such a tirade Ever since my childhood 1 have heard speakers adn ¢ ays what do fin vol senkoth thousand have | all those v that if COIN rey wit Aun etreets 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 such hard work to find an honest man was himself dishonest. | think he stole both tl Inntern and the tub. So, when | hear & man expatiating on the weakness of women, | immediately suspect him and say thers another Solomon with Solomon's wisdom left out. Still, T would not have the illus trations I have given of transcending excel lency in female biography lead you to suppose that there are no perils in woman's pathway God's grace alone can make an Isabella Graham, or a Christine Alsop, or a Pidelia Fiske, or a Catherine of Siena. Temptations lurk about the brightest domestic circle. It was no unmeaning thing when God sat up amidst the splendors of His word the charac ter of infamous Delilah, Again, this strange story of the text leads me to consider some of the ways in which strong men get their locks 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 strength of men is variously distributed Home times it lies in physical development, sometimes in intellectual attainment, sometimes in heart force, sometimes in social position, sometimes in finan clal accumulation: and there j& always a sharp shears ready to destroy it. Every | day there are Samsons ungianted. saw a oung man start in life under the most cheer ng advantages. His acute mind was at home in all scientific dominions, | philosophy | hip But be be. frea-thinking. soul threw over | oTuicht sa] the ' with impure potassiom carbonate Jitters against good government attempted 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 there arose a destroying spirit that came forth to capture his soul, He drank until his eyes grew dim and his knees knocked together and bis strength failed, Exhausted with lifelong dissipations, he went home to die, Ministers pronounced 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 were shorn From the island of Corsica there started forth a nature charged with unparalleled en ergies to make thrones tremble and eonvilss the earth. Piedmont, Naples, Bavaria, Ger many, Italy, Austria and England rose up to crush the yisin, man. At the plunge of his bayonets Bastiles burst open. The earth groaned with the agonies of tivoll, Auster fitz Saragossa and Evian. Five million men slain in his wars, Crowns were showered at his feet, and kingdoms hoisted triumphal arches to let him pass under, and Europe was lighted up at the conflagration of con suming cities Ie could almost have made a causeway of human bones be tween Lisbon and Moscow Na power short of omnipotent God could arrest him. But out of the ocean of human blood there arose a spirit in which the Cong ueror found more than a match The very am bition that had rocked the world was now to be his destroyer It grasped for too much and its efforts lost all. He reached up alter the scopter of universal dominion, but slipped and fall back Into desolation and banish ment. The American ship, damaged of the storm, to-day puts up in St. Helens and “W gO up t t wheres the French expired 1 disgrace it 1 of his loch nr the dered imiguity, and i you r and the bloody chor and the cancered lip and the parting an macerated imbs and the wriggling putrefaction, and 1 mt: Oh, horror of horrors In the still oes of ar 1 15% a warning Henem ber « such or form bad habits than y cioar of them: in one minute of tim fl may get into a sin from which all eter annot get you out Oh. that the oof God's truth irown the voice of Delilah Come int wavs of pleasaniness and the athes and by the grace of a pardoning God start for thrones of honor and dominion upon which vou may rather than trav the road to a dungeon, where the destroyed grind in the mills of despair, their locks shorn and their eyes out beautif man the unloors nts the Hiath iE might the f peace rewgn The Sources of Beautiful Colors, The Dru a list of the choicest Aris, as The « many of the are the { smerirnn follows whineal insects furnis \ fine gorgeous carmine, the son, scarlet carmine, and purple lakes, he cuttlefish gives the sepia. It is the inky fluid which the fish discharges in order to render the water opaque when attacked. Indian yellow comes from the camel. Ivory chips produce the ivory black and black The exquisite Prussian blue is made by fusing horses’ hoofs and other refuse animal matter This color was discovered accidentally, Var ious lakes are derived from roots, barks and gums. Blue black comes from the charcoal of the vine stalk. Lamp black is soot from certain residous substances, Turkey red is mud from the madder plant, which grows in Hindostan, yellow sap of a tree of Siam great Very colors Among them orim- bone cocoanut shells, Raw sienna is the natu ral earth from the neighborhood of Sien- un, Italy. found near Umbria and burnt. India ink is made from burnt camphor, The Chinese are the only manufacturers of this ink, and they will not reveal the se. cret of ita manufacture. Mastic is made tor is the soot of wood ashes, real uitraiatine is found in the Tata, It is obtained from ous lapisia- zuli, and commands a Hv wl Chinese white is zine, scarlet is of mercury, and native vermillion is from the quicksilver ore called cinnabar, the | The | produces gamboge; the natives catch the sap in Raw umber is also an earth | i rofy h : fonstons,” Impure hood, 1 | from the gum of the mastic tree, which | grows in the Grecian Archipelago. Bis. | ery li | NEWS AND NOTES FOR WOMEN, Burah silk will be very popular this winter. Strings of gold beads are worn as necklaces, The only blondes in Costa Rica are | foreigners, There are 275 women preachers in the United States, to greatly exceed the supply. On Mme, Modjeska's farm in Califoraia are 800 hives of italian bees. Much passementerie of a rich kind § lavished on the new mantles. Tulle bonnets will be very much worn | { Is 8 very distressing affection generally arising from this winter for dress occasion, Alice Liebmann, aged nine, is astonish ing London erictics with her skill on the violin. Princess Maud of Wales, who is about nineteen of age, is her mother's AmMAanuensis, Mrs. Henry 8. Kimball, of West Phila delphia, is receiving the credit of origin VEurs ating Memorial Day. Fifty thousand women are reported as having voted at the recent tions held in Kan A bonbonniere of frosted miniature set about with form An ing ave variety, whi M Welt 3ale University rity twenty-fiv $47 } + ir her Wi agricuit (rR ' 24 ak 1 and yellow which reproduces int yellow cream of the dead or chased gold jewelry set with I brilliants and pearis rej adornments everywhere as it does, the demand resents class of pe rsonal popular, meeting, for decorative effect at a comparatively small cost Leather trimmings will be considerably worn in skirt bands, waistcoats and cot lars and cules, the latter being on sale in the London shops in varying shades of gray, brown, green, red and black, with ornamental stite hing The present style of dress bodice favors the of neck The consequences is an increased popularity of gold beads and necklaces of eve ry de For day wear are tiny little ; or mignonette weaning ornaments scription neck chains with daisy pendants enameled in natural colors. . 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