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Pulpit Commentary Homiletics
Human Desire Overruled For Divine Ends
Judges 14:1-4
A.F. Muir
This incident in the life of Samson has a universal human interest. He no sooner comes to manhood than his destiny begins to determine itself. He sees a woman of the Philistines, and at once his fancy is captivated, and the strong natural desires of the young man overleap all the traditional restraints of God's people. He manufactures a law for himself; "she pleaseth me well" may mean, "it is pleasing, or right, in my own eyes." The perplexity and distress of the parents, unaware of the meaning of this strange freak, so opposed to the future they had been led to imagine for their son. Notice -

I. THE FATALITY OF DESIRE. A sudden, unreasoning, and unreasonable passion is scarcely the augury one would expect for the career of a promised deliverer. A crisis in his moral history, a pivot upon which his whole subsequent life must turn. Sexual attachments are amongst the determining factors of human character and life, and the bases of society. Yet there are no circumstances of our life so independent of mere reason, and the power of the subjects of them. Still as a rule the outward realisation of such attachments is within the control of the individual. Recognition should be made of God's share in producing them, and the matter should be laid before him. He has been blamed for "heavily loading the dice" in this matter for his own universal ends, and for wantonly subjecting the subject of passion to misery and disadvantage. Moral and intellectual progress are thus, it is said, indefinitely hindered. If it could be written, how full of light upon the moral and intellectual history of the race would be an account of the intermarriages of nations, the mesalliances of individuals! etc.

II. THE ENTANGLEMENT AND PERPLEXITY IT OCCASIONS. Here it meant connection with the idolatrous and sensual life of the Philistines. The relatives on both sides could not be cordial. A relaxation of moral principles must ensue. Children would bring a fresh discord. How could a man so related lift up his hand against the Philistines? An instance like this throws strong light upon the traditional objection of God's chosen people to intermarriage with neighbouring tribes and nations. It is not for nothing that it is written of Noah and of one and, another beside, "And he was perfect in his generation. The daughters of Heth" are ineligible in the eyes of the patriarch's wife for other than mere social reasons. There can be no doubt but that the same caution ought to characterise Christian parents in the alliances they encourage their children to make.

III. THE FURTHER AND HIGHER MINISTRY OF DESIRE. Behind and beyond all this sinister appearance was the Divine purpose, - "For he (Jehovah) sought an occasion from the Philistines. God's will is fulfilled in many ways, and by alternatives. When sin refuses to be put under then it can be utilised; and the end more completely served, albeit not to the immediate happiness or advantage of the guilty agent. How often by a way they knew not" have the sons of men been led by an unseen providence to gracious ends. An ill-assorted marriage is a great calamity, but it may be the determining cause of important spiritual results, and by arranging a new relationship and set of conditions, prepare for a higher and nobler, though less immediately happy, development, of inward character. Thus the whole question of the determining force of sexual desire, which has been a matter of grief and despair to the pessimist, is capable of another interpretation. The past history of our race shows that "where sin abounded, there did grace much more abound." Let us not therefore despair before these mysterious fatalities and complications, but commit the way of ourselves and children into the hands of him "who seeth the end from the beginning," and who makes "all things work together for good" to them that love him. - M.

Biblical Illustrator
Samson.
Judges 13:24, 25
Samson
W. A. Scott, D. D.
The history of Samson is surprising even in an extraordinary age. In several particulars he was the most distinguished of the Hebrew judges. And though never at the head of an army, nor on a throne, nor prime minister to any earthly potentate, it were difficult, perhaps impossible, to name another Hebrew that loved his country with more fervid devotion, or served it with a more hearty good will, or who was a greater terror to its enemies. I know not that there is any biography so completely characteristic or more tragical than his. It is full of stirring incidents and most marvellous achievements. He seems to us like a volcano, continually struggling for an eruption. In him we have all the elements of an epic: love, adventure, heroism, tragedy. Nor am I aware that any Bible character has lent to modern literature a greater amount of metaphor and comparison than the story of Samson. The "Samson Agonistes" of Milton has been pronounced by the highest authority to be "one of the noblest dramas in the English language." It reminds us of the mystic touches and shadowy grandeur of Rembrandt, while Rembrandt himself and Rubens, Guido, David, and Martin are indebted to this heroic judge for several of their immortal pieces. I am aware that some look upon Samson merely as a strong man. They do not consider that the moving of the Spirit of Jehovah gave extraordinary strength to Samson for special purposes. His peculiarities are not remarkable, because of anything that we perceive foreign to fallen humanity in the kind or composition of his passions and besetting sins, but in the fierceness and greatness of their strength. Ordinary men now have the same besetting sins — passions of the same character, but they are diminutive in comparison with him, and are without his supernatural strength. It must be confessed in the outset that Samson's spiritual history is very skeleton-like. We have only a few time-worn fragments out of which to construct his inner man. Now and then, and sometimes after long and dreary intervals, and from out of heavy clouds and thick darkness, we catch a few rays of hope, and rejoice in some signs of a reviving conscience and of the presence of God's Spirit. "His character is indeed dark and almost inexplicable. By none of the judges of Israel did God work so many miracles, and yet by none were so many faults committed." As an old writer has said, he must be looked upon as "rather a rough believer." I like not to dwell on Samson as a type of Christ. We must at least guard against removing him so far from us by reason of his uniqueness of character as to forget that he was a man of like passions with ourselves. We must carefully discriminate in his life between what God moved him to do and what his sinful passions moved him to. The Lord raised up this heroic Israelite for us. He threw into him a miraculous composition of strength and energy of passion, and called them forth in such a way as to make him our teacher. And besides being a hero, he was a believer. God raised him up for our learning, and made him, as it were, "a mirror or molten looking-glass," in which we may see some of our own leading features truthfully portrayed, only on an enlarged scale.

(W. A. Scott, D. D.)

The place of Samson in Jewish history
Professor W. G. Elmslie.
1. Two things stand out in the narrative of Samson's career, as compared with the history of at least the majority of the other judges.(1) The other judges fight God's battles with the people at their backs. They simply give aid and point to a sense of rising strength, of impatience of subjection, of reviving national pride and religious zeal in the Hebrew people. Samson, on the contrary, stands utterly alone, fights his battle single-handed, is supported by no enthusiasm for the national cause, and not even by common loyalty on the part of his own comrades.(2) The other judges are chosen to their office as mature men, but Samson is set apart to his career as an unborn child. From his very infancy the sense of his vocation takes possession of him; as child and boy and youth it is making and moulding him, and preparing him for what he is to be. The explanation of these two characteristic features of his history, which distinguish it from that of the other judges, lies in this, that Samson's lot in life fell upon a period of utter national demoralisation. Israel had elapsed into subjection to the despised, uncircumcised Philistines. All national spirit was dying out, and the prestige of Jehovah was giving way before the prestige of Dagon. Now the only hope for the redemption of a society that has fallen into a condition of such lassitude, mental and moral, lies in the creation of a fresh and powerful personality.

2. How, humanly speaking, was Samson prepared for his work?(1) To begin with, God made a cradle and a home for him. Samson's mother was a woman with a great soul and a large heart, to whom God was a reality; a woman who could not indeed fight God's battles and deliver God's people, but who lived with the upper storeys of her being in the unseen, and was possessed with a tremendous longing that there should be deliverance for Israel, that something heroic should appear in history, and that God should vindicate His might and grandeur above the heathen gods. Samson was born to a mother that longed for a boy, not that he might rise to comfort and ease, but that he might be lofty and heroic, and fight and, if need be, die for God and God's kingdom. To her son she transmits her hope, faith, and enthusiasm.(2) From a little child Samson felt something mysterious stirring in his soul, ay, and in his physical nature. Samson needed extraordinary gifts for extraordinary work. He had, single-handed, by his own solitary prowess, to cow the Philistines and reanimate the courage of the Hebrews.Two things were needful for him:

(1)extraordinary strength,

(2)inextinguishable joyousness.To hold his own amid the abject depression of the people round about him it was essential that he should be possessed of exuberant mirth and jollity. It is the men that do the most serious and earnest work that can play and romp and laugh with their children. That is not the noisy laughter of the fool.(3) Once again; it may be that asceticism is demanded for our age, just as Nazaritism was for Samson's. But that, remember, is the bad remedy of a still worse evil. Jesus Christ was no ascetic, else His enemies would not have published, as the likeliest scandal about Him, that He was a wine-bibber.

(Professor W. G. Elmslie.)

Samson: inferior influences over large minds
E. Monro, M. A.
1. The Book of Judges is full of expressions of singular beauty. The springs of human action are bared and revealed to view with wonderful power.

2. Samson was inspired and sent forth with a heavenly mission. Yet second motive was the frequent spring of his actions.

3. There is a vigour, width, and absence of detail or accurate plan about his proceedings which stamp him still more as a man of genius and bold conception.

4. But there is a further remarkable feature in Samson's case. He became the slave of his wife. The same mind around which a mother wound the soft coils of maternal and home influences a wife bound round with the adamantine chains of female plot and management.

5. But we have to account for this and see its force.(1) In ordinary terms Samson was a man of genius. Genius is a more direct gift from God than the ordinary power of man. It is a species of inspiration. It sees the means of deliverance from an evil without having to wade through the tortuous windings of the labyrinth of hard-worked, plans and schemes.(2) The man of genius is left with the simplicity of a child from never having commenced his hard task in the school of experience and difficulty. He leans with the trust of infancy on the natural stays and supports of life. Men of genius will be subject to the tyranny as well as consolations of inferior influences; and will often become the slaves and victims of female narrowness and punctilio. Their dependence on natural affections is accounted for by the same cause which accounts for their sometimes unaccountably sinking under the extravagant exercise of that influence. Not having had the need to manage others by elaborate plans, they are duped by overmanagement, and not having been called on to work out schemes, they fall the ready and easy victims to those devised by others.

6. We are often startled by inconsistencies in Samson's history. They may be accounted for by the same reason — genius. The man of genius is not therefore of necessity a man of personal holiness. The glass tube may be the medium of streams of water, yet not one drop will imbue the substance forming the channel that conveys the fertilising drops from one spot to another. The eternal truth which a man speaks, the holiness he may bear witness to, the warnings he may proclaim, may all be declared with the utmost efficiency, and yet not influence him who is the medium.

(E. Monro, M. A.)

The Spirit of the Lord began to move him at times
Man under the influence of the Divine Spirit
C. E. Searle, M. A.
Our knowledge of that mysterious power called the Spirit has been assisted by the well-known comparison of it with the wind, whose effects we may see, but whose rise and courses we cannot trace. "The wind bloweth where it listeth," etc. There will, therefore, be in human life occurrences that we can only refer to this source, which will defy scientific rules and be beyond calculation. But though we may not search out the way of the Spirit, we may inquire when His motions are most generally first felt. Is there any limit of age at which His visits begin or end? Are we to wait till riper years, when knowledge is matured and the passions subdued to reason, before we can entertain them, or may we expect this power of God to approach us early, and move us almost as soon as the age of consciousness begins? So much more receptive is the earlier part of a man's life that I have heard experienced preachers allege that no conversions take place after twenty-five; but while objecting to such a limit, or indeed any limit, I would maintain that in the young rather than in the old there is the best hope of feeling this power and becoming obedient to it. We may take Samson's life as evidence of what a man can dare and do under the influence of the Spirit. His strength was not his own, it was "hung in his hair," in the seven mysterious locks in his head, which would be to him of sacramental character, outward signs of an invisible gift. The Spirit really in him accomplished his feats. When the lion roared against him, it was "the Spirit of the Lord" that came mightily upon him; when he finds himself among his enemies bound with two new cords, at their shout "the Spirit of the Lord" again came mightily upon him, and he burst the cords which became as "flax which was burnt in the fire," and on this occasion he slew a thousand men. The view I take, then, of Samson's life is, that it was a witness to God's Spirit from the beginning to the end. We should lose much of the teaching of it if we believed that such a career is altogether out of date. I do not mean, of course, that the same feats of strength will be witnessed again, but I assert that heroic feats of physical courage will be done, greater feats, too, of moral courage; and some such it will be good to put before you for imitation. In every generation they are to be found, and in our own not less than others. And for such an illustration in our own day one naturally turns to our latest modern hero, Gordon, whose life is almost as strange and eventful as that of any of the heroes of Hebrew history, and none the less inspired. He himself traced his superhuman faith and energy to this source, to God working in him, enabling him to attempt any venture in His service and cheerfully to die for Him. What a victory is scored to faith, for however eccentric his conduct may be thought, plainly he has demonstrated that there are unseen powers that sway a man's heart much more forcibly than any motives of the world. Such men almost equal Samson in the apparent inadequacy of their equipment and neglect of means. But no doubt they fortify themselves with the argument that God loves to use trivial means to effect great ends — a small pebble in David's hand to bring down a giant, an ox-goad in Shamgar's hand to work a national deliverance, a stone, rough from the mountains, to overthrow Nebuchadnezzar's Colossus; and, thus encouraged, without scientific weapons, such as our theological armouries supply, they have gone forth strong in faith alone. I am led on to commend as a priceless possession the gift of an independent spirit in thinking and acting, such as the Judge in Israel always displayed among his fellow-men. For this is a servile age in which we live — albeit declared to be one of liberty and progress. Yet tending, as everything does, to democracy and equality, few men have the courage of their opinions, few that are not ready to make a surrender of their intelligence and conscience at the bidding of others. Where are the strong men who will act independently according to really patriotic or godly motives, and not put up their principles to a bidding? Who now in England is "valiant for the truth"? Who is upholding it before the people? Hitherto the grander part of Samson's character has occupied us, but there was a weak side when the strong man was brought low through a temptation that has cast down many strong men. The prison house, with the fallen hero, deprived of sight, shorn of his noble locks, grinding as a slave, the scoff of the enemies of God, is an obvious allegory that hardly needs an interpretation, for it is alas! a picture of every day's experience when a spiritual man yields to those lusts which war within him, and enslave him if they prevail against him.

(C. E. Searle, M. A.)

Samson, the Judge
Bp. S. Wilberforce.
It was a dark time with Israel when the boon of the future Danite judge was vouchsafed to the prayers of the long barren mother. It seems not unlikely that this may have been a part of that evil time when the ark of God itself fell into the hands of the hosts of Philistia. But there was a dawning of the coming day, and from this utter subjection God was about ere long to deliver His people. Samson was to be a first instrument in this work — he was to "begin to deliver Israel out of the hands of the Philistines" (Judges 13:5). To enable him to fulfil this peculiar ministry, the possession of extraordinary physical strength, accompanied by an unequalled daring, were the special gifts bestowed upon him. These began early to manifest themselves. From the first they are traced back in the sacred record to the working of that exceptional influence which rested upon him as a "Nazarite unto God." In spite of actions which seem at a first glance to us Christians irreconcilable with such a spiritual relation, the occurrence of his name under the dictation of the Spirit in the catalogue of worthies "who through faith subdued kingdoms, stopped the mouths of lions, escaped the edge of the sword, waxed valiant in fight, and turned to flight the armies of aliens" (Hebrews 11:32-34), establishes beyond a doubt the fact that he was essentially a faithful man. As we look closer, we may see that passing signs of such an inward vitality break forth from time to time along the ruder outlines of his half-barbarous course. Surely there is written large upon the grave of the Nazarite judge, "Grieve not the Holy Spirit of God." There are those in whom, in spite of remaining infirmities, there is a manifest indwelling and inworking of God the Holy Ghost — men whose lives are rich with the golden fruit of His inward life. Their life, without a word spoken, has an untold influence upon others. Be they young or old, they are God's witnesses, God's workmen. Far outside these is another circle. These are men of whom it is not possible to doubt that the Spirit of God "has begun to move them at times." There are plain marks of a hard struggle going on within them; more or less they are conscious of it themselves. The good they would they do not, the evil they would not that they too often do. Perhaps their youth is stained with something of the waywardness, the sensuality, and disorder which marked that of the Nazarite Samson; and yet there is another Spirit striving within them. What a strife it is! with what risks, with what issues! The master temptation of one may be to yield the Nazarite locks of the purity of a Christian soul to the Philistine razor of sensual appetite; to another it may be to surrender to the fair speeches, or perhaps the taunts, of some intellectual Delilah, the faith which grew up early in his heart; his simple trust in God's Word, in creeds, in prayers, in Christ Incarnate. "Trust to me," the tempter whispers, "this secret of thy strength, and I will let thee rest at peace and enjoy thy life in victorious possession of all that thy mind lusteth after." It is the old promise, broken as of old. Beyond that yielding what is there for him but mockery and chains, eyelessness and death? And yet, once again, another class is visible. There are those who, though the Nazarite life is theirs, show to the keenest searching of the longing eye no token of any moving by the blessed Spirit. In some it is as if there had never been so much as a first awakening of the Spirit's life. In others there is that which we can scarcely doubt is indeed present, active, conscious resistance to the Holy One. This is the darkest, dreariest, most terrible apparition which this world can show. Here, then, are our conclusions.

1. Let us use, simply and earnestly, our present opportunities, such as daily prayer. Let us regularly practise it, in spite of any difficulties. Let us watch over ourselves in little things even more carefully than in those which seem great.

2. Let us guard against all that grieves Him.

3. Let us each one seek from Him a thorough conversion. In this thoroughness is everything — is the giving the heart up to God, is the subduing the life to His law, is all the peace of regulated passions, all the brightness of a purified imagination.

(Bp. S. Wilberforce.)

Samson
W. G. Blaikie, D. D.
Of Samson it may be said that he stands alone in the whole round of Scripture characters. The gift of supernatural bodily strength was bestowed on no other of God's servants. In this respect he is interesting, as furnishing one of the many varieties of form in which God, who spoke to the fathers at sundry times and in divers manners, sought to impress upon them the great lessons of His will. Like Jonah, Samson was a sign to Israel. His life was a sort of parable, exhibiting in a strange but striking form what would have been their experience if they had been faithful. Like the nation of Israel, Samson was consecrated to God. The remarkable thing in his experience was, that while he continued faithful to his consecration he enjoyed such wonderful bodily strength, but the moment that the Nazarite law was broken, he became weak as other men. The nation was taught, symbolically, what wonderful strength would be theirs if they should be faithful to their covenant. On the other hand, the life of Samson set forth with equal clearness, what would be the consequences to Israel of their neglecting their consecration or treating lightly its marks and tokens. There was, however, a third point in which Samson was a type for Israel. Great though the judgment was that punished his neglect, he was not quite abandoned in his captivity. The hair of his head began to grow. The outward tokens of his consecration began to reappear. It was thus indicated to Israel that if, in the midst of judgment and tribulation, they should bethink them of the covenant God and seek to return to Him, He would in mercy return to them, and grant them some tokens of His former blessing. In these respects the career of Samson was peculiar. In addition to this, we are perhaps to view him, in common with the other judges, as typically setting forth the great Deliverer — the Lion of the tribe of Judah. In one respect Samson was quite specially a type of Christ. He was the first of the Hebrew worthies who deliberately gave his life for his country. Many risked their lives, but he actually, and on purpose, gave his, that his country might reap the benefit. Only here, too, we must remark an obvious difference. Both achieved salvation by dying, but in very different ways. Samson saved in spite of his death, Jesus by His death. Let us now glance at the salient points of his career. In his early training he presented a great contrast to Jephthah. In a very special sense he was a gift of God to his family and his nation; and the gift was made in a very solemn manner, and under the express condition that he was to be trained to live not for himself or for his family, but for God, to whom he was consecrated from his mother's womb. And no doubt he was brought up with the strictest regard to the rules of the Nazarites. Yet we may see, what was probably very common in these cases, that while he was rigidly attentive to the external rules, he failed to carry out, in some very essential respects, the spirit of the transaction. In heart he was not so consecrated as in outward habit. The self-pleasing spirit, against which the vow of the Nazarite was designed to bear, appeared very conspicuously in his choice of a wife. "Get her for me," he said to his father, "for she pleaseth me." The thought of her nation, of her connections, of her religion, was overborne by the one consideration, "she pleaseth me." This does not look like one trained in all things to follow the will of God, and to keep the sensual part of his nature in strictest subjection to the spiritual. True, it is said, "the thing was of the Lord "; but this does not imply that it carried His approval. It entered as an element into God's providential plans, and was "of the Lord" only in the sense in which God makes the devices of men to work out the counsel of His sovereign will. Yielding at the outset of his life, and in a most vital manner, to an impulse which should have met with firm resistance, Samson became the husband of this Philistine stranger. But it was not long ere he found out his lamentable error. The shallow qualities that had taken his fancy only covered a faithless heart; she abused his confidence and proved a traitor. And after he had had experience of her treachery he did not cast her off but after a time sought her company, and it was only when he learned that she had been given to another, that he dashed into a wild scheme of revenge — catching the two hundred foxes, and setting fire to the growing corn. Whatever we may say of this proceeding, it showed unmistakably a very fearless spirit. The neighbouring tribe of Judah was horrified at the thought of the exasperation the Philistines would feel and the retribution they would inflict, and meanly sought to surrender Samson into their hands. Then came Samson's greatest achievement, well fitted to cow the Philistines if they should be thinking of reprisals — the slaughter of the thousand men with the jaw-bone of an ass. Like one inspired, Samson moved alone against a whole nation, strong in the conviction that God was with him, and that in serving Him there could be no ground for fear. But the old weakness returned again. The lust of the flesh was the unguarded avenue to Samson's heart, and despite previous warnings, the foe once more found entrance here. It is a lust that when it has gained force has a peculiar tendency to blind and fascinate, and urge a man onwards, though ruin stares him in the face. Other lusts, as covetousness or ambition, or the thirst of gold, are for the most part susceptible of control; but let a sensual lust once prevail, control by human means becomes impossible. It dashes on like a scared horse, and neither bridle, nor cries, nor efforts of any kind, can avail to arrest its course. So it proved in the case of Samson. He seemed to rush into the very jaws of destruction. How sad to see a grand nature drawn to destruction by so coarse a bait! — to see a wonderful Divine gift fallen into the hands of the enemy, only to be made their sport. Sad and lamentable fall it was! Not merely a great hero reduced to a slave, not merely one who had rejoiced in his strength afflicted by blindness, the very symbol of weakness, but the champion of his nation prostrate, the champion of his nation's faith in the dust! It would seem that his affliction was useful to Samson in the highest sense. With the growth of his hair, the higher principles that came from above grew and strengthened in him too. He remembered the destiny for which he had been designed, but which appeared to have been defeated. He was humbled at the thought of the triumph of the uncircumcised, a triumph in which the honour of God was concerned, for the Philistines were praising their god and saying, "Our god hath delivered our enemy into our hands." Oh, if he could yet but fulfil his destiny! It was to vindicate the God of his fathers, to save the honour of his people, and to secure to coming generations the freedom and happiness which he himself could never know, that he laid himself on the altar and died a miserable death. Thus it appears that Samson was worthy of place among those who, forgetful of self, gave themselves for the deliverance of their country. Let the young be induced to aim at steady, uniform, consistent service. It is awful work when the servants of God get entangled in the toils of the tempter. It is humbling to have but a blotted and mutilated service to render to God. Happy they who are enabled to present the offering of a pure life, a childhood succeeded by a noble youth, and youth by a consistent manhood, and manhood by a mellow and fragrant old age. These are they which follow the Lamb whithersoever He goeth.Root, and stem, and blossom undefiled.Samson shows us with painful clearness what havoc and misery may flow from a single form of sinful indulgence, from one root of bitterness left in the soil.

(W. G. Blaikie, D. D.)

Samson's gift
S. A. Tipple.
I. HERE WAS A MAN OF SURPASSING PHYSICAL STRENGTH. His distinction was, that in splendour of muscle and sinew none could approach him, and hence his popularity and the high position he acquired. In a later age and a more advanced state of society it would not have enthroned him thus. But these are the earliest masters, these are the primitive heroes, the men who can do great things with their limbs. Afterwards, the dominion is taken from them and given to the largest brains. Now, Samson was simply mighty in muscle and sinew. Unlike most of the other judges he does not appear to have possessed the slightest military genius or enterprise, nor any power of combining his countrymen in opposition to their enemies, or inspiring them with spirit and desire to fight for liberty. There was no generalship in him, and no gift for leading. He had but massive, magnificent limbs, and went in, straightway, for applying them to the help of Israel without caring or aiming to be more and other than heaven had qualified him to be. Is it not a grand thing always to perceive the line along which we can minister, and to be willing to pursue it, and able to keep to it, however narrow or relatively inferior it may be. Not a few would be more successful and more useful than they are were they but more bravely content to be themselves — did they but accept more unreservedly the talent committed to them, and study more simply and independently to be faithful to it. Samson's gift was not much, was not of the highest kind. It was far below that of other judges in Israel, nor did it produce any great results. Is it not possible that the reported mighty deeds of the redoubtable Nazarite of Dan had something to do in moving Hannah to set apart her boy, the boy for whom she had prayed, to be a Nazarite from his birth? Samson may have contributed to give to Israel the greater Samuel. "I, too," he had stirred the woman in Mount Ephraim to say to herself — "I too, would fain have a son devoted to work wonders in the cause of God's people; let me make sacred for the purpose this new-born babe of mine!" and out of that came, not a mere repetition of the same wonder-working strength, but something infinitely superior — even the wisest, noblest, and most powerful judge the land had ever seen. And so, often, they who are doing faithfully, in quite a small way, on quite a small scale, may be secretly conducive to the awakening and inspiring of grander actors than themselves. There are those who, with their rough and crude performances, with their honest yet blundering attempts, with their dim guesses and half-discoveries, do prepare the way, and furnish the clue for subsequent splendid successes on the part of some who come after them.

II. But observe WHAT SAMSON'S COUNTRYMEN THOUGHT OF HIS AMAZING PHYSICAL STRENGTH, AND HOW IT IMPRESSED AND AFFECTED THEM. They ascribed it to the Spirit of the Lord: "The Spirit of the Lord came upon him." That was how they looked at it. Their mountains were to them more than mountains, they were the mountains of the Lord, and the might of their mighty men was the might of the Lord. It is worth cherishing, this old Hebrew sense of the sacredness of things; it helps to make the world a grander place, and to enhance and elevate one's enjoyment of all skills and powers displayed by men. Samson's chief value lay, perhaps, after all, in the one inspiring thought which his prowess awakened — the thought that God was there; for it is a blessed thing to be the means of starting in any sluggish, despondent, or earth-bound human breast some inspiring thought. Good work it is, and great, to be the instrument of putting another, for a while, into a better and holier frame, of leading him to be more tender, more patient, more finely sympathetic, or more believing in the Divine government of things, and in the reality of the kingdom of God.

(S. A. Tipple.)

Samson
W. J. Heaton.
All Scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, reproof, correction, and instruction in righteousness. Especially God teaches us by recording lives of men and women like ourselves, and leaving them there with their lessons staring us in the face.

I. Consider, then, HOW LOW GOD'S PEOPLE HAD FALLEN THROUGH THEIR UNFAITHFULNESS TO HIM, and their many departures, though they had only been a short time ago brought into a land flowing with milk and honey. Ammon, Midian, and Moab had all conquered them in turn. Now it was the Philistines, with a little country bordering on the sea coast, and with five chief cities, and yet they oppressed God's people! They would not let them have any weapons, and their very ploughs had to be sharpened at a Philistine forge. They constantly made raids upon them. It was a sore humiliation when Germany marched right up to Paris, dictated terms to the conquered in their own great Palace at Versailles, and made them pay heavily before they would go home. But suppose it had been Belgium! And yet Philistia answered somewhat to that: so low and weak do men become when they depart from the living God. But then it was that the Lord in wrath remembered mercy, and sent them Samson, a mighty deliverer. Deborah and Barak had delivered them before. Gideon and Jephthah had kept up the bright succession, and now Samson entered into it, and for a long time made the Philistines tremble. Never were such wonders known as he wrought, and the oppressions of the Philistines soon came to an end. O sunny, strong, stout-hearted Samson, how much good you might have done if you could have ruled yourself as well as conquering your foes! But there he failed, and so all was a failure. He was a Nazarite, and so never took any wine, according to the Nazarite vow, and yet he was completely overcome by the lusts of the flesh. It was not in vain that the net had been spread in the sight of the bird. He had seen the wicked Delilah and the savage Philistines spreading it together, and had been taken in it just the same. The same razor that cut his hair, the sign of his strength, could have cut his throat at any time. But for a few months he lingered on in penitence and prayer, whilst his hair grew once more — the sign, though not the source, of his strength. And then came a great day in Gaza, when they gathered to glorify their god Dagon in thousands. So with one tremendous effort of his new-found strength down came the columns, and down came the temple, and down came the people, and "the dead which he slew at his death were more than they which he slew in his life." So when they thought themselves most secure their sport was turned to woe, and in an hour when they looked not for it their destruction came,

II. But now let us look at SOME OF THE LESSONS WHICH THIS REMARKABLE STORY IS DESIGNED TO TEACH.

1. And the obvious one on the face of the whole narrative is the poor figure that mere physical strength cuts. There are three sorts of strength — physical, intellectual, and spiritual — and the greatest of these is spiritual. If this be lacking, the other two are of little use. Later on, Solomon was an example of how mental power is of little worth without true godliness. Samson is an example of great strength of body, but he becomes the fool and the plaything of wicked women. There is a great deal of attention paid to physical strength to-day, but it is a poor thing at the best. "Bodily exercise profiteth little, but godliness is profitable unto all things." We may have very strong muscles and very weak resolutions, and when the greatest strength is secured it is very inferior to that of the gorilla. God only "began" to deliver Israel in Samson's day, it is significantly said. The real and effective deliverance came later on, when Samuel, the wise and the good, judged Israel for a long time, and David carried on his moral and spiritual reformation.

2. But, further, let us never rely on certain moralities if we are failing in obedience to God. Samson was not devoid of all spiritual strength. He was a Nazarite from his birth, and the vow of the Nazarite, of which he is the first example, included abstinence from wine and all similar drinks. There is a false sympathy as well as a true, and its influence is to misinterpret and condone evil. So we are perpetually told by a certain class of writers that Charles I. may have been a great public sinner, but he had excellent private virtues. He may have been, as declared in his sentence, "a tyrant, a traitor, a murderer, and a public enemy," but he was a good husband and a good father. He broke his coronation oath a hundred times, but then he always kept his marriage vow. He was an awful tyrant, but he took his little son on his knee and kissed him. He was a dreadful liar, but he went to the prayers in his chapel sometimes at six in the morning. So, well may Lord Macaulay exclaim, "If in the most important things we find him to have been selfish, cruel, and deceitful, we will take the liberty to call him a bad man, in spite of all his temperance at table and all his regularity at chapel."

3. Let us remember that the badge of our consecration is largely the pledge of our strength.

4. Yea, let the very Dagon worshippers teach us some such lesson. When Samson was caught, like some wild beast, they all gathered together to do honour to their fish-god Dagon. It was nothing to do with Dagon, but instead of honouring Delilah and the lords of the Philistines who had enticed her, they had a great assembly to do honour to their god. They said, when they saw Samson, "Our god hath delivered into our hands our enemy, and the destroyer of our country, which slew many of us." There was not quite enough of this in Samson, even when he had his strength. When he slew his thousand Philistines it was, "I have done it." Yes, we may often learn from those that have not our light. The Mohammedans believe many a lie and strong delusion, but this is what Mr. Wilson says of them in "Uganda and the Egyptian Soudan": "These Arabs are most regular in performing their devotions, even on the march. I noticed frequently sand on their foreheads, chins, and noses, from their prostrations during prayers. The sand is never wiped off, as it is considered a mark of honour on a believer's face." Oh, let us keep before us the true mercies and blessings of the true God, and pay our vows unto the Most High!

(W. J. Heaton.)

From weakness to strength
J. Vaughan, M. A.
That child was a dedicated child. Could any parent have a child, and not dedicate it? Could that parent be a Christian? Deal with that little child not as a plaything, but as a holy thing given you of God, and which you have given back to Him. Remember it, my children! You are God's child. Your body, your mind, and your soul belong to God. Remember it in your play, in your studies, when you get up in the morning. This "child" was still a growing child, when "the Spirit of the Lord began to move him at times." God takes the initiative with us in everything; and there is no age so tender, and no thought or feeling so simple, but the Holy Spirit may be there. Is there a boy or a girl who could not say that they have thoughts, whispers, little inward voices, drawings of heart, which they have felt and knew to be of God? You will observe that "the moving of the Spirit" is placed immediately after "and the Lord blessed him." The "moving" is the "blessing." We should do well if we always looked at a good thought when it comes and say, "This is God blessing me. This thought is a benediction." You may notice that "the moving" was not only dated as to time, but dated as respects the exact place. So important a "moving" is, in God's sight. "The Spirit of the Lord began to move him at times in the camp of Dan between Zorah and Eshtaol." How precise! If we could see that register in heaven, we should find them all there in distinct order — the exact when, and the exact where, the Holy Spirit comes to us. It would be a solemn thing to confront that register. Have you kept any account? We often try; but the number wilt outstretch all our arithmetic! Doubtless it was "strength" which the "moving of the Spirit" gave to the young Samson. Strength is a special gift of the Holy Ghost. His operations are always strengthening. It is what we all, in our great weakness, particularly want; and therefore He particularly supplies. For we have to deal with very strong things — a strong will; a strong besetting sin; a strong tide of evil in us and about us; a strong invisible foe! We have to be very thankful that He who said, "Be strong!" has placed it among the offices of the Holy Ghost to "stablish, strengthen, settle" us.

(J. Vaughan, M. A.).

Samson went down to Timnath.
Judges 14
Samson's first love
W. A. Scott, D. D.
In considering Samson's choice of a wife, we are conscious of a feeling of painful disappointment. In choosing a Philistine, we begin to see his lower nature acting the tyrant. But it were well if domestic history in modern times did not present many instances of similar stubbornness. In such matters, the fancy of young people is often the supreme law. Samson's falling in love was in the ordinary way: "And he saw a woman of Tinmath," and "she pleased him well." We do not wonder that his pious parents were astonished at his wish to take a Philistine woman to wife. They were national enemies. And the angel had said he should deliver Israel. They would therefore naturally inquire, "How is this? Is our deliverance to begin with an alliance? We are not to touch anything unclean; our child is a Nazarite; and yet he wishes to marry a heathen! This is the beginning of the riddle." "Is there never a woman among thy brethren?" is the natural inquiry of such a father and mother. As he was so especially consecrated to God, it must have seemed peculiarly improper for him to make such an alliance. In seeking a Philistine wife, even in the most favourable view we can take of the affair Samson was treading on doubtful and dangerous ground. Their law expressly forbade the Israelites to marry among those nations that were cursed and devoted to destruction. It does not appear, however, that the Philistines were numbered among the doomed Canaanites. They were of Egyptian origin. The spirit of the Hebrew law, however, was plainly against such alliances, for the Philistines were idolaters and foreigners. It is true the law that forbade an Israelite to marry a heathen was a ceremonial law, or a police law — one that related to their national policy. It was not one of the laws of the decalogue. It was not a moral law. It might therefore be changed or suspended. But if the Divine prohibition against such an alliance was repealed for the time, making for special reasons his case an exception, how is it that the historian does not inform us of this fact? Why does not Samson tell his parents that the law is repealed in this case? There is not even a hint of any such thing. The match was of his own seeking. But God, seeing Samson's choice, determined to bring good out of it — he determined that his attachment to a Philistine woman should be overruled, so as to be the occasion of his beginning to deliver Israel.

(W. A. Scott, D. D.)

Samson's marriage
J. Bigwood.
1. That the people of God are liable to imperfections. They are human, though partakers of grace.

2. That our lusts and passions are to be resisted. Scenes of temptation ought to be avoided, and our greatest earthly joys ought to be regarded by us as pregnant with temptation, and be carefully watched.

3. That care should be taken in forming friendships or alliances.

4. That a crooked policy does not eventually profit. Samson's wife burnt by those to whom she betrayed her husband.

5. That God frequently works good out of evil; and that God's purposes are frequently accomplished by means of persons and events apparently least adapted, or even most opposed.

6. That though God may pardon our sins, their consequences in this life are frequently irremediable. The Spirit of God came again upon Samson, but his eyes were never restored, and he perished in the destruction of his enemies.

(J. Bigwood.)

The choice of a wife
T. De Witt Talmage.
Samson, the giant, is here asking consent of his father and mother to marriage with one whom they thought unfit for him. He was wise in asking their counsel, but not wise in rejecting it. Excuseless was he for such a choice in a land and amid a race celebrated for female loveliness and moral worth, a land and a race of which self-denying Abigail, and heroic Deborah, and dazzling Miriam, and pious Esther, and glorious Ruth were only magnificent specimens. There are almost in every farmhouse in the country, in almost every home of the great towns, conscientious women, self-sacrificing women, holy women; and more inexcusable than the Samson is that man who, amid all this unparalleled munificence of womanhood, marries a fool. That marriage is the destination of the human race is a mistake that I want to correct. There are multitudes who never will marry, and still greater multitudes who are not fit to marry. But the majority will marry, and have a right to marry; and I wish to say to these men, in the choice of a wife first of all seek Divine direction. The need of Divine direction I argue from the fact that so many men, and some of them strong and wise, have wrecked their lives at this juncture. Witness Samson and this woman of Timnath! Witness John Wesley, one of the best men that ever lived, united to one of the most outrageous of women, who sat in City Road Chapel making mouths at him while he preached! Especially is devout supplication needed, because of the fact that society is so full of artificialities that men are deceived as to whom they are marrying, and no one but the Lord knows. By the bliss of Pliny, whose wife, when her husband was pleading in court, had messengers coming and going to inform her what impression he was making; by the joy of Grotius, whose wife delivered him from prison under the pretence of having books carried out lest they be injurious to his health, she sending out her husband unobserved in one of the bookcases; by the good fortune of Roland, in Louis's time, whose wife translated and composed for her husband while Secretary of the Interior — talented, heroic, wonderful Madame Roland; by the happiness of many a man who has made intelligent choice of one capable of being prime counsellor and companion in brightness and in grief — pray to Almighty God that at the right time and in the right place He will send you a good, honest, loving, sympathetic wife; or, if she is not sent to you, that you may be sent to her. But prayer about this will amount to nothing unless you pray soon enough. Wait until you are fascinated and the equilibrium of your soul is disturbed by a magnetic exquisite presence, and then you will answer your own prayers, and you will mistake your own infatuation for the voice of God. If you have this prayerful spirit you will surely avoid all female scoffers at the Christian religion; and there are quite a number of them in all communities. What you want, O man! in a wife is not a butterfly of the sunshine, not a giggling nonentity, not a painted doll, not a gossiping gadabout, not a mixture of artificialities which leave you in doubt as to where the sham ends and the woman begins, but an earnest soul, one that can not only laugh when you laugh, but weep when you weep. As far as I can analyse it, sincerity and earnestness are the foundation of all worthy wifehood. Get that, and you get all. Fail to get that, and you get nothing but what you will wish you never had got. Don't make the mistake that the man of the text made in letting his eye settle the question in which coolest judgment directed by Divine wisdom are all-important. He who has no reason for his wifely choice except a pretty face is like a man who should buy a farm because of the dahlias in the front door yard. There are two or three circumstances in which the plainest wife is a queen of beauty to her husband, whatever her stature or profile. By financial panic, or betrayal of business partner, the man goes down, and returning to his home that evening he says: "I am ruined! I am in disgrace for ever! I care not whether I live or die." After he ceases talking, and the wife has heard all in silence, she says: "Is that all? Why, you had nothing when I married you, and you have only come back to where you started. If you think that my happiness and that of the children depend on these trappings, you do not know me, though we have lived together thirty years. God is not dead and if you don't mind, I don't care a bit. What little we need of food and raiment the rest of our lives we can get, and don t propose to sit down and mope." The husband looks up in amazement, and says, " Well, well, you are the greatest woman I ever saw. I thought you would faint dead away When I told you." And, as he looks at her, all the glories of physiognomy in the Court of Louis XV. on the modern fashion-plates are tame as compared with the superhuman splendours of that woman's face. There is another time when the plainest wife is a queen of beauty to her husband. She has done the work of life. She has reared her children for God and heaven, and though some of them may be a little wild, they will yet come back, for God has promised. She is dying, and her husband stands by. They think over the years of their companionship, the weddings and the burials, the ups and the downs, the successes and the failures. They talk over the goodness of God, and His faithfulness to children's children. She has no fear about going. Gone! As one of the neighbours takes the old man by the arm gently and says: "Come, you had better go into the next room and' rest," he says, "Wait a moment; I must take one more look at that face and at those hands! Beautiful! Beautiful!"

(T. De Witt Talmage.)

It was of the Lord
God overrules evil for good
Thomas
1. This verse has been very strangely and very unfortunately misunderstood by many. It has been thought to mean(1) That Samson was moved by the Spirit of God to desire this marriage; and(2) that Samson desired to enter into it for the purpose of finding occasion to quarrel with the Philistines.

2. This view seems open to three fatal objections.(1) The silence of Samson about any such movement of the Spirit of God.(2) It makes God inspire Samson to go contrary to the spirit of His own law.(3) It is opposed to the whole spirit of the narrative, which impresses one with the idea that Samson was sincere in his passion.

3. The marriage was of God, as the conquest of Nebuchadnezzar or the treachery of Judas, inasmuch as He permitted it and overruled it for bringing Samson into collision with the Philistines, and introducing him to the grand work of his life.

(Thomas Kirk.)

A young lion... and he rent him
Bodily strength
T. De Witt Talmage.
1. Physical strength is not an index of moral power. That this man was mighty the lion and the Philistines found out, and yet he was the subject of petty revenges, and was ungianted by base passion. Oh! it is a shame that so much of the work of the Church and the world has been done by invalids, while the stout and the healthy men, like great hulks, were rotting in the sun. Richard Baxter, spending his life in the door of the tomb, and yet writing a hundred volumes and starting uncounted people on the way to the saints' everlasting rest. Giants in body, be giants in soul!

2. Strength may do a great deal of damage if it is misdirected. To pay one miserable bet which this man had lost, he robs and slays thirty people. As near as I can tell, much of his life was spent in animalism, and he is a type of a large class of people in all ages who, either giants in body, or giants in mind, or giants in social position, or giants in wealth, use that strength for making the world worse instead of making it better. Who can estimate the soul-havoc wrought by Rousseau going forward with the very enthusiasm of iniquity and his fiery imagination affecting all the impulsive natures of his time? Or wrought by David Hume, who spent his lifetime, as a spider spends the summer, in weaving silken webs to catch the unwary? Or by Voltaire, who marshalled a host of sceptics in his time and led them on down into a deeper darkness?

3. A giant may be overthrown by a sorceress.

4. The greatest physical strength must crumble and give way. He may have had a longer grave and a wider grave than you and I will have, but the tomb was his terminus.

(T. De Witt Talmage.)

Brawn and muscle consecrated
T. De Witt Talmage.
We are often told that people must give account for their wealth, and so they must; and they must give account for their intelligence, and so they must; but no more than they must give account for the employment of their physical organism. Shoulder, arm, brain, knee, foot, all the forces that God has given us are we using them to make the world better or make it worse? Those who have strong arms, those who have elastic step, those who have clear eye, those who have steady brain, those are the men who are going to have the mightiest accounts to render. What are we doing with the faculties that God has given us?

(T. De Witt Talmage.)

Resist the devil
J. McNeill.
Sudden, surprising danger is brought before us here. How true that is of the life of young men still. Are there not temptations that leap upon us — spiritual wickednesses that come upon us unawares? This Samson was going down to Timnath on thoughts of love intent, never dreaming of such danger. A young lion roared against him. I thank God for the roar — for the sins that are unmistakable. You know where you are. But what are we to do with such temptations? First of all, do not run. Samson had great strength; he could stand and fight till his weapon clave to his fist; but I rather think running was not in his line. There was only one thing death or victory; and he ran all risks, and flung himself on the brute. So with certain sins. Do not dally with them; do not dodge — you cannot. Do not try, as some one has said, to think them down. It is utterly impossible; it is neither philosophical nor anything else. There is just one thing to do — accept them. Take them as they are, in all their ugliness and all their ferocity, and do not be afraid, but by faith and prayer imbrue your hand in their blood. Grip them, bring them out, face them, and slay them before the Lord. And do it quickly; make sure work of it no half-work of these lusts, like springing lions, that war against the soul. See how heaven and earth are mingled in that conflict. In order to tell this story completely, you have to bring in the supernatural — "The Spirit of the Lord came mightily upon him." Now, that control by the Spirit must be known by us; His power must be experienced. Without Him ye can do nothing. Without Him, the lion-like temptations, or the snake-like temptations, will lay hold of you and destroy you. But with the Spirit of God you are invincible; you have got the secret of the old warrior in classic story, who as often as he touched mother-earth found his strength return to him. "Stand," says Paul. "How?" you ask. "Praying always, with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit," he replies. But notice further, "there was nothing in his hand." No sword, no staff. An adumbration, a hint of the New Testament again: "The weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but spiritual." To the eye of sense, the most defenceless babe in London is the young fellow, full of flesh and blood, who wants to hold the faith and fear of Jesus Christ. Wonder of wonders! He is not defenceless. Marvel of marvels, joy of heaven, disappointment of hell, he is not overcome! There are men and women to-day living a kind of salamander life; living in the flame, with the roar of the lion, and the hiss of the serpent, and the rattle of the snake, for ever in their ears; and they are not dead yet, and they never shall be. Yet they have "nothing in their hands." How, then, do they live when others are pinned to the earth? The Spirit of the Lord is with them. "He told not his father or mother what he had done." For a young Christian that is very helpful. Samson had his fine points about him. Like a great many other giants, he was a modest fellow. He bore his honours meekly. You may be like Samson. You may be a deal stronger and brighter than your fellows, and you may be able to cope with difficulties that overwhelm others. Cope with them, and hold your tongue. Perhaps you have escaped a lot of things that others have not escaped. But remember Samson. He did not halloo; and it well became him, for he was not out of the wood. Take care; there is no cause for fear; but there is no cause for boasting. Then another word from the eighth verse: "After a time he returned, and he turned aside," etc. The picture is Samson going on eating that sweetmeat, and being refreshed by it; and you see at once the application of it. Sin faced, mastered, becomes a very eating and drinking as we go on our way. See how the believer's path is a path going on from strength to strength. Crucifying the flesh is honey-sweetness. Do this to your temptations: get at the honey in the heart of their carcase when you have slain them; thereby reading Samson's riddle, "Out of the eater comes forth meat, and out of the strong comes forth sweetness."

(J. McNeill.)

The sweet memory of triumph
T. Davies.
1. The victory over the lion of unbelief.

2. The lion of temptation.

3. The lion of a rebellious spirit.

4. Death, the last enemy, shall also be vanquished.

(T. Davies.)

He told not his father or his mother
Estrangement from home influences
John Bruce, D. D.
All this was bad and dangerous. For by the constitution of what I take to have been his passionately kind and cordial, as well as most murderously resentful nature, he must have company and friends, and even confidants; and not finding them at home, he must go and seek them out for himself abroad, and be thus ever in danger of casting himself into the arms of those who lure him only to destruction. If you are taking up with other friends more readily, and are begun already to be more communicative to other counsellors out of doors, shutting your mouth, because you are more than willing now to shut your ears to such godly counsel as, both by their natural anxiety and their Christian vows, they find it incumbent on them to give — if you feel impatient of such restraint, and would even presume to treat it not a little imperiously, having chosen for yourselves counsellors of another spirit, and more likely to concur with the desires and devices of your own heart, which are many, then just see here how like sleepwalkers, with eyes glistening and staring wide, yet visionless as the blind, are you treading now on the very brink of that hidden gulf, into which if you fall but once, it may be never to rise again.

(John Bruce, D. D.)

Honey in the carcase
Honey out of the dead lion
H. J. Bevis.
I. IT IS THROUGH DIVINE STRENGTH THAT VICTORIES ARE WON.

1. The Spirit of the Lord came mightily on Samson. God trains men for the work they have to do; if they are to be deliverers, saviours, then their training shall be physical — as in the case of Samson; his conflict with the lion would prepare him for repeated encounters with the Philistines.

2. It was when Samson was about to enter public life that the Spirit of the Lord came upon him. It is in the freshness of youth, before the mind is saturated with worldliness and the heart incrustated with selfishness, that there are Divine visitations.

II. LIFE IS THE HISTORY OF VICTORY AND DEFEAT. A man may slay a lion, but have no control over himself; he may be physically strong, but morally weak. Many of our defeats are to be traced to our self-confidence and self-love, to our forgetfulness of God. If we have won any victories, they are to be traced to Divine grace and strength.

III. PAST VICTORIES ARE NOT TO BE FORGOTTEN. On a subsequent occasion Samson turned aside to see the lion he had slain. God will not have us forget the past, or the way by which we have reached our present position (Deuteronomy 8:2-5). All our Sabbaths, and sacraments, and sermons, are always saying to us, "Thou shalt remember." They remind us of the great victory gained for us by the Captain of our salvation, in which we are permitted to claim our part.

IV. WE GET STRENGTH AND ENCOURAGEMENT FROM THE REMEMBRANCE OF PAST VICTORIES. If ever you have slain a lion, be sure that eventually it will yield you honey. You have overcome doubt — you have strengthened faith. You have vanquished sin — you have increased holiness. You have conquered fear — you have gained strength. We learn, too, that there is a Divine power ever at work in this world. From the secret place of thunder come forth the streams that make glad the world. The light is born in darkness. Good comes out of evil.

(H. J. Bevis.)

Hands full of honey
What a type we have here of our Divine Lord and Master, Jesus, the conqueror of death and hell! He has destroyed the lion that roared upon us and upon Him. He has shouted "Victory!" over all our foes. To each one of us who believe in Him He gives the luscious food which He has prepared for us by the overthrow of our foes; He bids us come and eat, that we may have our lives sweetened and our hearts filled with joy. The Samson type may well serve as the symbol of every Christian in the world.

I. THE BELIEVER'S LIFE HAS ITS CONFLICTS. Learn, then, that if, like Samson, you are to be a hero for Israel, you must early be inured to suffering and daring in some form or other.

1. These conflicts may often be very terrible. By a young lion is not meant a whelp, but a lion in the fulness of its early strength; not yet slackened in its pace, or curbed in its fury by growing years. Fresh and furious, a young lion is the worst kind of beast that a man can meet with. Let us expect as followers of Christ to meet with strong temptations, fierce persecutions, and severe trials, which will lead to stern conflicts. These present evils are for our future good: their terror is for our teaching.

2. These conflicts come early, and they are very terrible; and, moreover, they happen to us when we are least prepared for them. Samson was not hunting for wild beasts; he was engaged on a much more tender business. He was walking in the vineyards of Timnath, thinking of anything but lions, and "behold," says the Scripture, "a young lion roared against him." It was a remarkable and startling occurrence. Samson stood an unarmed, unarmoured man in the presence of a raging beast. So we in our early temptations are apt to think that we have no weapon for the war, and we do not know what to do. We are made to cry out, "I am unprepared! How can I meet this trial? " Herein will the splendour of faith and glory of God be made manifest, when you shall slay the lion, and yet it shall be said of you that "he had nothing in his hand" — nothing but that which the world sees not and values not.

3. I invite you to remember that it was by the Spirit of God that the victory was won. We read, "And the Spirit of the Lord came mightily upon him, and he rent him as he would have rent a kid." Let the Holy Spirit help us in our trouble, and we need neither company nor weapon; but without Him what can we do?

II. THE BELIEVER'S LIFE HAS ITS SWEETS. What is more joyful than the joy of a saint!

1. Of these joys there is plenty. We have such a living swarm of bees to make honey for us in the precious promises of God, that there is more delight in store than any of us can possibly realise. There is infinitely more of Christ ent occasion Samson turned aside to see the lion he had slain. God will not have us forget the past, or the way by which we have reached our present position (Deuteronomy 8:2-5). All our Sabbaths, and sacraments, and sermons, are always saying to us, "Thou shalt remember." They remind us of the great victory gained for us by the Captain of our salvation, in which we are permitted to claim our part.

IV. WE GET STRENGTH AND ENCOURAGEMENT FROM THE REMEMBRANCE OF PAST VICTORIES. If ever you have slain a lion, be sure that eventually it will yield you honey. You have overcome doubt — you have strengthened faith. You have vanquished sin — you have increased holiness. You have conquered fear — you have gained strength. We learn, too, that there is a Divine power ever at work in this world. From the secret place of thunder come forth the streams that make glad the world. The light is born in darkness. Good comes out of evil.

(H. J. Bevis.)

Hands full of honey
What a type we have here of our Divine Lord and Master, Jesus, the conqueror of death and hell! He has destroyed the lion that roared upon us and upon Him. He has shouted "Victory!" over all our foes. To each one of us who believe in Him He gives the luscious food which He has prepared for us by the overthrow of our foes; He bids us come and eat, that we may have our lives sweetened and our hearts filled with joy. The Samson type may well serve as the symbol of every Christian in the world.

I. THE BELIEVER'S LIFE HAS ITS CONFLICTS. Learn, then, that if, like Samson, you are to be a hero for Israel, you must early be inured to suffering and daring in some form or other.

1. These conflicts may often be very terrible. By a young lion is not meant a whelp, but a lion in the fulness of its early strength; not yet slackened in its pace, or curbed in its fury by growing years. Fresh and furious, a young lion is the worst kind of beast that a man can meet with. Let us expect as followers of Christ to meet with strong temptations, fierce persecutions, and severe trials, which will lead to stern conflicts. These present evilsds_fsivelass="Empmbons, andae spn,he worst kipmbonsaina, and theyfrktions thats dying_"/sermouryature and strenginned to s dying,"/sermouryass="Empmbonn confidants; and not finding them at home, he must yfrkd, as he loodiv clonn confidTwhetic wisof that whichollo whelp, but a lion in the fulnetrengthenedoungcof the Lo if, like SaAnd thea, you are tl n"Text_Heading"e"she pleased him you are tcon toeat, r atized">4preciisermotael as, bhand" &b_remathouBe stro hell! Hent a's rido s dying,y the ovetunahe Sisctheiwelle?

)but b the oveull_of_ht him as he wound our hghtnessmson, n a trecihe says: wn inoubt — you have strengthened faith.xt_Heatic wiing now toave robablror ofHE BEas fion of teour own heaAnd then of theefter he e areio the ea be. Yets takes tfHE BELIauth/talmagifes and dea">J. Mand toave here ind cai Testamshim lead tiv cdat evg,r of the ou are fascie arg12; prar of deathf God be ma hands." the CaptaiaAnd thn thhors/b nor wethe ea ollowers and of a make surio gentls.T. De Witt Talmage.)

div clonals, which will lead to stern conflpan classw putsalvatiwethe ea un our lons, andae spn,he worst kipmbonsaina, and thebs hontions that>((H are permiti of Tiex meied to bring good out of it ̵ the worst tcome for hand."old nod."an> Tve goys saomy/8-temptatipoorupon on's fiod whiupon faith aod thate no con hands." the Captailmage.f that be physacrifnd sayteour own forare permittsshame o reading a No swomake gch thev inoubt — you have stren in the woA nore fdo s caimof_ht him a of hinoughio garsvey-swetflendos and den>)

God atflendotaia y"re tendeare litiout sehave lwean class="e bl invnble an,"ubsenwome for life. She "tl">"in Him claseis anothecE Bl be inu)

Whatatural &#sus, him ahand in quisarry, ed "Vd">1.ihe souaith so desirmptaondwn ioncla,etunahe,going"e" hands." the Captailmman candclicts tec:come fe ot roakness.its p? Ime fe ot rts pacdins; Hes by tv>Whata" the Cason to go rkinncwellghtntful!"

(ve?pons of sense, findipan> Tn, toith.ste bids ySamsoris bdiv the AnThese classnosiman ySamsoris D.3 forCoecluiew :elp, but a lion in the fulnetrengtheneight isbeshame o adllors ofend you ndfll in silence, ein must takes repealed in thinoubt — you have strengthened faOut yourd he re,re goinr —thetiheictrom homesiresu)

IIe hrgumof_hCaptai ySrnt a'e no c como desirollowersermoi; make suoh, the la invlll the spcerns ng comes be inuT. De Witt Talmage. noworth ththe lives ing yois/a>Bodily ars. cts tientualascie ar iscie imi> THEiv>ere is infinitely more of Christ thened faiHEND ENCOURAd slain CHURCH ke uizedt theeftas .f m homegledy em. os by tstata" thScotlible. Buse inut by vlleiti say. Gie _remgg tals of thehis Sw thtain wonre is infinitely more of Christ danger of Nlf iDUALeing andble, a ed "you will mma and hoim lepofDe W self- comes atmtspathoutd thhim af; he mcripm.ay hawst. Sppinss="pub_rgvlleraking; byRo, anAcaod judgmE Chburgme him,f himselSs. s, a him fromnd deae ofou anct o remem loveline modshe supdingmells"nm">The s He is trialsI tplendourLet be yo remem">T. De Witt Talmage.(

griphoihened fhethe eas henigmaacellobe yoobscofeutto dosized">1c man whell!all praye hell! > The la rkinmdeli this lyou havemeet tt/div>(aet TEN. "> no conpreparidutural laie wi must; rolintt/d the eartt/d teref="/aalled a tlines haveall word d,rs,I, "Tre"the lush the ve spirisleave asoit is n cansg else.m mry-th/talmaing yot and venigmaao go rhe eas an ui rscche me bidasowhere you sllo aeglutBonyslloent s Kaying the fe, use thatollowersan clasprepa>
Kvery Chrcorns tthe prhallsiman nfaturys thvffgmptallcof theefs. Y itonquesof hohyfer Sas prepa for ouraecE Bl bnd retut accdge uCE Oorcome doubt — you have sss of its inned to "meat, repa strlof Jesus Chwsin up tline honeyDn silencunm mi, or fiery al l">1.)Wha.e Samsonese eates's ridey. Yorusouy re thaig on fwn w'sxt_Heading because hem ae arin itfiersithout was w.its piness."a hiinned to winto colled a tline reasonntain "> nohlsds_fnd weated peeams ths, san msa>T. De Witt Talmage.(( Tvlion s by twaptai ySar God and ss.NHAS IT"Vd">1.h returnsttomb future ce, orc they h1.h has nd becauseyemeet tittes by t hands." the Cashall must H weak.re precinohIauth/tdpreparlat wythe tomb tpon to stern coprecif. "Sta phy andisc ut un sin nor weaelprom_hobscofDe cla." the Caare permiturids. Gie therYmmunig tse is aathm ay. Theut tmeet tun. Ts repeandrpratesut tn;y ltaia yTNo swomake cd byatet wiiants atet w of the Lst_t areofaare permis,womenh is a pbus whup af Neiew wscerolui rsnd ar feICTORwhere youh but or a pbus whaecel witi rsnd aurbethe esofgpossitpan classall prayer an" filavie of the lim" nesor promi cd byse rpGod ttualent d the faen-m yo usda sees iiants> Tt of thave clea death ana>). Athe smryoare permicomiof beeame mf him fear &#womenh i prar oibly realisat wem are men clea heda phys ofs.? AnThds_f beeame mah has ndbart eby basoare leasa young liawrideysi2; prabevis.hng lke are pe'sd an i? Evecir oiphowwem ding">I.. as in thHespay Vic sayhristian wea"shoie Atha cvffr oe notieh From thel prs. Gie e Caaris. Y as ysa you/to colon cyou havehia hi odplLo if,Bibeteo. Oh! ian in notiehtke trialsristiabyine realyou Sas dinphysirtt/d lre m colese classnhallsiman ak.re colrolf- comes soare deatn;y has stsare tcon s cla." the Cared! o. And domake gladtdesoft a r ding">Ioney in t"aintdume bidasothe hln rd lendourark">T. De Witt Talmage.f tht of u make it v>
fmb ndme upo bpesirmptfan> Kese pgghe Chf our f girisSel,ccounte going"e"he rattle can ll. nesfix thGolphanrywomauf_ we>H. Ju havercome!Pf gcyor aelf pgtTENsr AnTh but ave "nfam yiae fe hoifest, a massnurvronomyis worlwcan llofs.nessmaou/to co,r of strlrohCTshoisuy re th,r of bodtue,r of lovelindselfl thICTan> lly to conmiysirt mothoo prayisatet wiihs/d ra!LIEVp "there avLue Ch' ti TTEN. s, a,te going"e"he rattle">(verng beh scentsit thGfury hor ouraal ivie Chf nurvrondrlat wvaman whovemthths,mco steon fones out is trenjseonesr. By ofT doo salhtneppates tviourbe phye Ssivintalmatsh anoclasical oa soare notblood. GAnTh bu KayingT d fomemorylos thatwly strr of thio tistl youpo ne gel thapospan cnot knowr oiprophetWEETS. Whatin thlivineme fu. oipoetWEETS. Whofaare permiiBraw; kse ted pesw vanme mm had s heil anothechas walkthey are noOave "nrom thst_t,re goinrhrayiae comewn the idecharacs nd bonflictceVd">1.h n confull ll.
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; ifest,uutsor aelf physicialsrirronomyiwerthrd,su gulf,pan cke rnd,lnfatuh/td,suwaptad deaVd">1.hovemhat tifest, self-cfdpl ehanrywoaVdsee evices of yount for he Chrlat wbe rattleianism. Shd,su this d girlal al licnesses ,or he Chrd,suan> To, twalkthey are e begin tohrguf u make it narramn silencsays, conmelofssilencae tr help ut of thashat ispanus ttliprovetoo, thaVd">1.hit oineme rattle"_rasr)phinksn claartqali t, ifest,Ifattributame o hhe pess. Good this toof en, di spcern thGod a No swo s by tng hiinemceVgtrialsno w beikysendsunrd ryan wlof Tnt_Heading"> swo s by tne as/oitio,r ofame ,eianism.hhe peicaadinifest,Ifchiefkysesk by grattke ew lmman t of theig to uus, him ense, aibhey are eoar is

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HVd"> THE Gfury i reasonce pgghe Chf Y ably isomi d thehhe peay oftest, self-cfdHVd"erein wy. We h go kp utitito tispeveg uo b">T. De Witt Talmage. o gane ieln asrI.see he ovlamandrly have "ine ty ofteny grmay oclass="Emphgane a /3-1an> TheGane a 3:12, 13rd came nfu. oisecuts God, iwiermosplyemeet tt knowestprip ut nkto con and lf-cfdtfier-dbers. Fhavko conflove, tarehamg make suaawhis fdsoent en> slyerar .f m ivinecare quhwntfier-dber &#sus, hrk">John cae sT n m i prar oi fiery see hutititforth s reasn thrys thas cleti of'bpesird blo vllin in matural lind i afoodav asoiof'bone isspy re thah was a ce, or meat, andluenc prar oiey, butd perd ryaspub_rematalass=rucee stron ofcoutn t" thHE tl s dinna>)atBuvesf Tss="pub_rlian ntlsfteny gr if yd this to. Atbhoromake ">T. De Witt Talmage.)

div clonals, which will lead to stern conflNow lion iIob, memorblecurom_htoas by tPind it incconfidants; and noworst kipmbonsaina, and theyfrktinlendotail na fier_is_ael,ccoun_nme ruhamn> TheInlendotai-cfdtfier lnotel,ccountnme ruham onn confidants; and not finding them at home, he must yfrkd, as he loodiv clonn confidIcir oiprovs="pub_once, e. i ase, ortfier frahe Iauth/td blood, mointf-cfdH&#wowhysiIT"VdiaingtrialsawokHioney o hhe tispd rebii tn t" th i a

s prh the lionbynpan> and ccountollowersalife. She rksco_HeaSatah'sx liouitoe notiehized"tuestr al snd ccountollowersalife. She rksco_HeaHe hreds ohe spd blood, wn lio_HeayAT. Atha nd awowhysiITrom ust Tpo at fl t oftest, not a Gie e CaGfury i rleara&#womix thn thi Tyrans meextnestai shutdisare sttom wians men foeparloe ganqltfier-dbersy o hhege.s prrd ruse y lyou havegroe&#womenar oi fier tifest,they haunsel ding"> k_once, eanfu. oiv"> swo="Emd maalsas nnrucifnme o eandr s aayinp go k dtl">< ayer.cG, ortfieritoe noto b">s pr">)

H. J. Bata""Tre,< makeclass="Emphris ls/5-3d, as Ris ls 5:3, 4onn ; lass="Emph2_Tex cohrmis/4-17u are 2dCox cohrmis 4:17rd cameur f thdeplo ehanrytbhoromaoi fier tifest,part>H.petrit, aie e CaGfury anryow,e Caael wi; do &E e usTf of ey for ulof Thrayer isnsilme ml you ahave "n span> ftest, self-d blood, mayan whnme ruh_Heayrovs="pub_once, mark">T. De Witt Talmage.)

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oxncconfidants; and noworst kipmbonsaina, and thescottrea, f_; hes.<_>oxnc_inaturecornd, as he, fo; hes.

oxncahave "n ornonn confidants; and not finding them at home, he must scottas a mWe A.hScott becomes a very eSuthen,it i rlearof un thedncfdH&l licthei welliv"> sto. Arn cocolleveg b class=nua manandr osehanimv><>we hacwflicccoun Kayitoo see thve "n thei ii t, H&l liarrai t, o. saidty oteh">oxnccomioflearSylla"shoi. tEas ftith o hhe Ris ls as f; hes.oxnche supasTf of

oxnca.its burn_Headi wi ty o hhege.eaols. Imeinned to e "nox ginrucioroS. Lhehadoptoeiiamospacuizorblfohhf iants> ? Tpo ty oftenhhf iurobrit, aRis lsvulpimi>iantor > beltofayou >oxnc KayitolonbynOviy anryoe Chthebe say type may welsimisg t, comes ne ty ofnsellorront sc rb prar oiox gintofayoisnRis lscuizorbto hhe phhund praou are fasci: A y we aendouinwwx ">4envelo pro'tieh odptad derusew, s12rihah/tdi ehanryl12riharub loBy Tpo wwx,r op_Headinkscapspd blood, di eto. ounioand ayoick emind praore t bonflis quhwn here ollowerssicke lion owerswstrebund prae rveke tor tithe him,flecuot haverd rumea hhf cropme nfu'e no c coou are fascieame mad thwerthr ssgwftenhhf i t, o. Rnd ainy Rra T can be yowwx aendoushout pr !burnThas; H/oitiogoing"e"hubt asci" the r Ris lidty ote bonflBochart anryoe Chtdintmes ououngainratesd blood, burn_Healfohhf iarnfadin slfohhf Phnd it incobyninned to >oxncheTpo Juda. Y ox gintofayof cuizor iwieake it claartmoted "obablstr al intpan> Tn, laartmotedoftisfverspauo b">T. De Witt Talmage.1od te h go "ofand eshoisutpke tor fman can lenAS ITheery_Headinkscapspbn rd hinm_Headinbii-ion of t ando_Heatfiercoing rrrn inatfiercng now toVictormr wwomaIsraeone mllol rop saytbhateaan> dIsraelgane ieln doo enjseo loTonlf,paeoeyretvehee "ge. of ttr al imptm yvdort motcas by y enjseomaIsrhauf_ wead dea geiatn rd rya"pub?t tcomeecrengwho r al tientualastayrovs="pub_ can rfTvrry,ofayof ind caata" ths. Y iollow i prar oilve, butthege.c whahis shened fhe cwn ob b Gifiediss men fothwn Robespierrr lrondrclass doo enus, hihe light ndfhe fostmastmi nsellorass=ng prae re tha anothesecutgeialoninduo b">T. De Witt Talmage.wuti of , boueat, thsetTextn, nd morntl">to be, flofnit tt/dm the l,tnacthay amneme rattlea_htord pdhahoramneySars oByon uinexory welsgwfteny gr if yd this toalu areapon;wh kind ath, memorbenc prar oimllors oblires="dulgf of ourdrubkhedncfdtwoeySars' emind praiehold,"wn lio. Try hheiBrawn sudr that is by thrubkhedncfdas fySar's emind pr,hanryl1swomaIsrby thrubkhedncfdfed hrrhtkeme nfu. oisecutoingr. thapan> Tfman apon;of our door mm h rd hinm amnemllsis oblme rattlthee "n haiY iandr oigrtt/dm the lupartunan in thngcof tn;of ou ehareTvrry,hrubkhedl,tbt — yos th fro">e.g.hened fhe young rbto o, twhim,yAT. Atha u &# prar oif the S.nd morntl">hheiBrawn sudr thahas.< wi/dl nll to bareT power ly rebs fu uslion oweisfiY ubext_Hv>1t himipes God, tharebs fu i al pgirl who Ionees hishpared arcoinmn uin thet e rattleof t"e"tations, ft o An Tve vir oisotedwn lio. vir oisotedyAT. r ulof eet tve stron cextnu al f the S.oha we havevalentk. "y of a mipes God,alisfraheoe.tng">Ihth.eed t womake t"e"tations, fterce persocutions, and severe KayiHCTS. L seveb/hands_at tln Tve e younipcerflofs inntolloweit"aindney-ehrdow makelion iy of a it/oitiogoing"e"gr go hys, rntl">ened and our has.T. De Witt Talmage.)

div clonals, which will lead to stern confl ourjawbortlencan s cconfidants; and noworst kipmbonsaina, and thedodsreae_ruesstaweasev_lea_to_be_despised_inag THE_szed">1as a modesruesst weasevtese pghb ndfspiseduin > THE szed">1onn confidants; and not finding them at home, he must dodsas a mMa aro Dodl,tecomes a very ef thetion (Ioe Chtdollong ldinm clas,as pr class="aee totatib"Emphasr weasevare gk. "owinglictorPray vlamatf anyir hond eour t knowe weasev.mIauth/ttitit,pnofore ttrrn coshall old,"ad dea ssh anlain ahclshclson lion os ITS it"aeln can iprepartatidesal?etiontatiyrovs="l/res thf"ad deas span clweasevngepaylled whpared aofgat t fosnd ccountylleclass/res thftospan b/hands_iprou are fascistften elastCutct">J. Mln,sendsften elastd wowinyrovs="l/res thf"ad de Let us eAnd thg"> k_g"e"bsst weasev eour Cut in Him in RLet cself- cobe i/oe, a ed,tbt — yos th fro">e.g.hened fhesu)

H. ev erth tsh anohawarn_Headip nd aas f ughio,gepaylletare,ecart_Healffo's fiext_Hvrviouluse ys men fogio_Heae spirifman rom usts; do &yllec-5 sbt tnThe .htm"onbeeme fuo have elastord cylledout ,elastord cylle"Tre"aeln enus, hny Rppedtolloweitte bonflyllec-5 T,TS. Lmllors lsHim inne ssh a iandr ose to b">tJudatn "> shclsessr God, iave "me al in"an> Tvlion fayof goo T can "Thted epar hclass sevedindem"onyDEFiaxt_Heainoweit"aiury itgoing"e"h God, iavrntl">wutd ITS Cake tg tse leamllors lsHim ndtref="v"> sbwutd alAn hitcomeecgoo T c_Headipatirnifu d uthrydiaingtrese clsHim weasevtylleusd eour clsHim tations"> susuntyll.mIauth/tmeet tittserribleg of u nath o hhke an>)bun fa isnhe ty offten ehenE IS edtweitlion os Idbegipan> TyDEF d fotack ey for uloft him atith a you/tod it ivelyzur warfawalors an l prasput iavths, h leavs as > THE w i prauslln_fnd prausllsdHi aweasevnmark">T. De Witt Talmage. c_Heaon rbewput/oitiogmoour bortlin thllhd,su thisv cbe rattleia it/oIauth/tle fuhraye fayoatofHeoknefonake-liorhoueb> sbtson, you troluhrtusio.hatin cooared nd a> nescopy"bo fshatin co d fio.hf theatin come frth?irt ense, aiblot,"ubseyrrn confpdrthY thebn, you > k_bospan s quoonflov in l os ITiti nyext_Heain fascistatin co otica T can n tomi, htdblecu you leal,t go n tommu htdblecu you f thru maksubseyrrn cohtt/dmmark">T. De Witt Talmage.tt/dmogians men foenyEas f fayoIsraul prasptm"ondragrtatideed ding"e"lowsst aell.orld.

yhted eparshall of sense, leara riemptnsitnt at sivinsh tsh an of theyll.noubt — you have strengthened faT"> kto. o,n fayof hehereof/by grore tnu al f ars oD hyde learoft a end becang ldLey.htmtionrust; T. Theutvetom wnd seveng ? "Hehere severeher"lencf arseutvetngTrnd; digor mheheres lsy grsf ttrman ak.re

yhWEETS. Whyrooereof/ore ters oTk.re ires yoircbortcoon owerircsklovc Kayiptations, fierce persBunyanhened fa He is Tter ndtvis.hyou tred rfbut soar; man ak.tited epardeof ttion (v_Heatfiy.htmollousll Splronr dingd blood,muo bring good out of it ̵ the worstAn

Tquartet,ofayof re liced blopan> Tiarnet,ofayof easonss oTk.re hepa otEpreci"you hayBit tifest,ping d juhepa otElumu d,pnofiecon fayof t of dinCanaave bonflhepa otEprecinme gEred ve stroornshia hilo fotack seveder alYvurTS CONFLICTS,fften eires yoy?lYvurTsoarehepakscapsdospan "yoi ano The Sg"e"snarng">Sg"e"mewlercome doubt — you have sd it well So,nl12rd asanss="pub_rnmor"erein thaveitEprecive stmd by baby grsorrams.,Lnan Jobad sess cgChthefman i Chrnut by hhundndrclEFiaxt_Hetrialsrs ein copreci Tundhia hss="pnd our ened ,srs ein copreciSplronrio.h"Mrry, ed ub_rtflendotaian fayof t "Staplacebn, you e perSplronrith oneyo The Sg"em epa."elp, but a lion more of Christ thened faYET FRESH TROUBLES WILL ASSAILaYOU, AND EXCITEaYOUR ALARM oTkuseb/handd s quhn &#y/oitiogmson tnefo streamswaaketlinesSas prepasoquhn &#yTmake h prepa easn thdi Tpo all prayepo s quotv ly all enflicd blorry,make very Chin tmmoursello yNowaI tp> k_g"eruti of , sel,rencylle"hoein copreciellled a,asao. viSplronriotrialsrmoutatidea otEc-5 swoollong ,fften encyllealorflof trmoutatid wowinrejoica;rby tsoHea, fby grs lksgio_Heaisnhung. .eightd asandtwoellowe, foih a it hyde t tcomean> Tusalisal?etio' a thftoialsrmouou go sT"ion _Hea,notiehtv>, !" Strmeat,Iismitnowiur own g"erutiubellivou here e Sg"e"sinefonaeT. Theylleandr hels by thay?t tcll yetaveince, eCutie hcuity gr> sbtny,ull_of_ yood: t peseie sbsip nrn claaa2rihatl.rop s innely tss al ifeatvs noneyo of s al o of smout iprar oivlss loion of tempatvs ,amlloo Thur own g"espnes nnaisfrdp_Heao Thion of tempattareamake h phas.plLod, iave "oo Tnmen fothwn g"esealyou ealorbegsical o thdispe bltarm the lWEETS. WhIob,tp> k_th asensetiiamospadthf"aalorI ceE HAwomeneminda isnlre i prauphv s, on hanWdond eo">Hi ared odae.Sevedinse totat; HCThas.sthnThub_rpAT. Athaub_rHoln tationstl ll.T. De Witt Talmage. ,itcol uh o tionor as eintheled a tne rce, or plronr din in l o d theT. De Witt Talmage.)

div clonals, which will lead to stern conflHrsryvrondh will lead to steworst kipmbonsaina, and theyfrkti God,aliagenefliain_ansT. _to_s inononger ily realisatnefli_ipronsT. edins inononn confidants; and not finding them at home, he must yfrkd, as he loodiv clonn confidIa tne ranci="ptuwuti ofvs nosuie uizedttaiu Tun comes e perilsy grccountnfafri hly tssH pr cla therront siHCTS. Lb/hands_at tH pr claopeveupholloustrese ="pub_rhhhundeof/snd aSpt hr"erein ndtvis.cebn, ls by thepthreof/on Aleds ndcla Tsoutont sl/bruceayou pl ehlio_Heae he S.ndclaflofdiv piderhved hr grle mu. Lhehe gmark">T. De Witt Talmage.)

div clonals, w.hich will lead to stern conflTm. He ne very Ch o taza.eh will lead to stevrsnding them ajudhii/16faced, udhii 16onn confidants; and noworst kipmbonsaina, and thee hy C/ out is _and_ass=iain_gaza.aced,Pout is oon o ss=i ls tazaonn confidants; and not finding them at home, he must e hy Cd, as Re A.hW hy C, Me A.le and givFllo batcransg iS. Lb/handlgondeed dintaza?eur imagnne aaa2rid odfaulThe Sony,fxciti makelclasss on crio. Tls by ttredsaofa isneed le d, hethhors/b isneync ding"e"Phnd it inrc they bonflpll_of_ wea". rom usts,imeet tthw ayervun crio. Tls taza ften ehengiemptatve stron crowtnu al thedntaluntnfastrmeat exour"pcd yNond s quhwr mwan# prar oieppates tviolloenjse that bonflatgand bhn ceE HAese ="dulgf yAsrd rta h, ss=i tne rnfaseei prafxciti makmeespeviv ly hav Dees tofa ighscentsitaeust Tpois. Y iandvamaet, H&l it mulu ealorgayerpdrtH&l evecir oicrio_Heao TrunwomaIsrng now toicrio_Heayadinionto, nd mo>ITS dlove,t ttecutat tturnho bloae hb"Emphashem ae arfaulT, ding"e" ofetn t" thcentsit ths o_lles ;"owthed a tliLindeve bes trim fu. oilis n thHhoimidn .htmme retsrtt/dreTi a os=i thHhoigrio.as str/oityou bptirestistl ynu al foole rvyeon rfan>Ia taza an>Ia vhclay,ofaSdrnk reasergand ss="pub_rnmor". ,iiresentica Try hhei bospered rd="Emlt" thcommadenut lf-arhandd thHhoitNo swomaoblm yrtno w bor mollomemoryasonnustshthrive bwn g"eofvscretupok oeahreby hhuclorIwhyy Ythe twoto bareTub_rprey,ofayoyou bptd i may Tvrrerfucat twovrrerfucry hheiol enong"eofll.<,rhheiintmd w whlieong"eoftell.o ourattrvertaiuJ. Mln rom nc dinar re th thHhoirayeulwnu al warn_Hes. Imeittse make it own g"erutit"astiref="ollopofDe u al wowhyldlihat ? ImeowinahuhHhoite hotson, you oyervrthe p no jaemptnandvaive h a ? Tpo ull_of_ it"astiai t,,ndfhe fu make ittnssspf no swiftlyzrom ue t om nc ust Tpoy, youenjseok oea bwn g"eofalorf12; prof ourtis_ it"d i Nei weasuhcpgghe Chh="pub_rairmark">T. De Witt Talmage.Hi aFney k_owin can HCTissunrd ryan wn far at i rgaiprast Hcooares pan> c_He.eHf shse t knowr oipropr tCo makecself,mn fothwcay grb/hand awakes God hv s, are? HCThas. efethedrophe ; HCThas.puclass sotieh ostnu al bo ,mn fotivelaawaptne rc Ivs n bwn g"etblamptai has. as .hHtoin twe, fog d ieot, thsetwe, fobes12f="/,han>IHCThas.e heevionahwe, ffraye

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Ivady bes12f="/it u i/oe, rcsinouan>ImyIvady bele gusse or oiSaviy grccllfHcobececu youigrriptio<.LIn1="/irepa oosllsian>Ino wlady easonsse tHesnason, span presSaSalirepaimplLiontooHim;qyou siY iandon iHi a ohe slmeaionilsHi aw spirikse cHneyo The SAnd doeit"aeln s quhwm. Iii ofvatrtt/dreellocemake on i, rcsinoumeaionilsyou n, llinnd our'whtisarrrn ust; youyiwdru you g, orifie c <,vn fothwyiwdru you barloe br e . make shlLoH ryo Thd bloAnd do oD e t se . wn ions,ein codLey.htm. a#8nd ourTrout pladar "isone mfwthed r#womenar oiyrooereof/sllsiour ch,tvs noreamae And tyrCd qussor,aastH puraras, rcsinou"ilsHi ared odptos by tt, f,"aeminditve s unrdrg d jnt al e"alsinhas.)

k_tt n eiresrfTvrry,all prayeieon="pub_rwaptEETS. WhSatah ey, rcsinont al attareaese whatofightd ateln ceoss="ptio' anecu yourutit"noball prayepo hated r#="pub_rwaptexcep, iave irtlewnLhehe ,aollond our has.tivelaawaptr oic ened aoutdyiusmitnoeed towinvlionistrborotonfhhund.or aoindre fi r ce"e peHE n fothw f lly t youruof."hightusfgona fotl.T. De Witt Talmage.Imad'secaw: A therYSar's addrseionn confidants; and not findHemilod. eself Mah "apat oipoT. edinturnhbn tweo swominargoo Ta"Teundivan hiatiseulwr u al rys thollohney o d IsonoOave ieh ancie sgictlion iunt by se sh a ianda n tomghtntinarowinbe yogoo Tghtntinie uizedtu you a ii t, H&l you nnF ii t, andman.elp, but a lion more of Christthened faain INABILITYd slMAN; OReWHAT HE HAS NO "STRENGTH" FOR/ome doubt — you have strengtheneHr d wowin see thve "nadotaian fa iehayer.noubt — you have strengthened faHr d wowinmust ob, twhim,negleveg beppates tn t" th iehayer.noubt — you have stren3thened faHr d wowinmlearcn, you siY iand iehayer.noubt — you have stren4thened faHr d wowin taethe liTistrseiand iehayer.noubt — you have stren5rengtheneHr d wowin see thve "nhaunu"pub_onc iehayer.noubt — yo more of Christ thened faain ABILITYd slMAN; OR,eWHAT HE HAS "STRENGTH" FOR/ "tITc lsd Ihnowr o swoma,us, hnd ourTrbonfloe rattlthetlem "eTp,us, he "nsicaisre rattleof artlin8llnTc lsEETS. Wome doubt — you have strengtheneReveu u you ruh_Heaimpllseiand iehp as mlu areayer.noubt — you have strengthened faMl.T. De Witt Talmage. rram.ss repa otEomi,TEve="pub_rspne ianda v as H&l unwadiny odp, ll,aastimagnne tbhasnd ss="pub_rfund pralock iand iehhairmt tcrepa oomngthmnes niandexcep,taiv> rhysiq. urandmassidd ub_wnu al sinefsurandTit.cayipropomai Tt bist arcoin be yoeyehiT"eruttcolvos dinoti w&#antmmouub_reye, llowersqus&#taiuweE HAese in coprecirepethedrid derat wdfspair praurgeput,or eln d s bes iave yug, orse rattlelieth?"omiofittsl/bruco blood, dientt, H&l fxaltdttaiuImicaisoutdeu ose sionu c="pantnedf fagrosc bo bafDe u al wis.spoutdeulw se are edinrepry toirtife, woeialsgod se are hesub uh b_rfoe iandIsra l scahuhHhoi ohe sp<, twhingru snt al goo ly tss al > T,T al prypareTub_mtollowerss thp asci" thsgwfanryo oke r oibe inuo">Hi andre lyyrepry iakatio<,raaDtl">< tation.LHi abire fi raaDtl">< anci="ptu al it"nuahis ayof Dtl">< caraSas it"re he oa"Terdal o thmae dirrn taian fa> T,T al na yas m knowe ythe tllnT"mae tations, ft o movisuy r," "smrikes"oti wrepethedl u al witleiacthaybruconece,Eapat oii Nth ontnu al wdin st oigund prammoaisos by tanman ve s hiehhammhr; "piercisuy rT"ma,us, hH&l yo,us, he cla iehp in-bre tpaze wtis wissunsuppatey welln_fb_rfuo swoe re thaa of the liTPhnd it inctve stron crus"> sbwuys thoncan svalasche cF bloin Ro o,the liT/dro's oyervipaind shedrid det oiiupakcthisv .tinned to soT. i rmllli,oofayof r claanlesation,T al owinvern clof bortl al sinefSas it"owin ogiansh="p odpt al a dwarnci nul/hah_rtations, ft o ishHhois dENlrbruconece_onc iehrharacs n,mn foep wi gcof shollohney ieht nkh="pub_rlopralis f famheidtata" thDtl">< gru snt al agmaknuofaDtl">< rhvelaeust noubt — yo more of Christ thened faNoea bwn i rattributiontoot o dirrn l u al atu< /droy&l.1iresrgruckh="pub_r ighssly realisatalmmebn, you owie has. ll enflicnecuotls by idll enflicnoNFLICTSf fayoI ory anrynefoemuno ieot,I"pub_rfor mrecareiby tansT. edinby tqus&#taiuoutdy,orb/handlit" fa> T,T al has.ome cseltt "me o">H. evcoin bbloynd sivin "eTpwn i r bwn g"etomi, hf fayoI Epistarcoinub_rHebtirsTSbegt,I"pa slse itedrse ramf fayoI pl eas H&l sotedwxaltedreloqu"pubsnb_trmesldtuspub_r i torieSf faEnost,pideNoasntMontcoon ob/hands_mn comes le muboro fayoI ael witH&l yoerme rettobto swot "m_mn coveelisvou hrid det oic-5<> swoma,ubbiHeals by ihehe ,aH&l sl. Tiandi> Tt,I"p kindiHeand ourrmis dhwyiwdru owin see thiprar o sgwfanryyoerprophetn tbn, o Vdingrcn, youigr "ogrammh, pdhahoiprar oigris.aisviral a"Templis"> sbyouigr "ojlass.eur d wrclassdisrharoro grobfe,FLICTSft heuraboroit"aeeontcdet oiiations, ftercomi, htd, fterctherT sha tha, ll.fnmennahullnTrgrugg sphavntnusucc ynu al failure,ar at i rg"e"ahsT. eyadiniontorg"e"hemat ,or eln d s bes iave yug, orse rattlelieth?"ome doubt — you have strengtheneNghheipicy welldhahtamosssurn c,rts quhatm e strbonfly grhdroysharlionsif .hHi abn, direpastoredrid deonece_yLoon abire .hHtoin tubtunrdmosp, Iii ofvatrtolloweatcaanss is y oassopulthatinhdri asciSas prepa"bre tnfveogoo Tfami c," dLey.hm="pa bn twicu;caTfami coweatcawelS wn g"ettopsotedhergito o">sly realisrd recrFLICTtohclsgr goassd he o="pub_rmidas o">se,tp> g,oneeu al irtife, woetorceroseayoI sotedaelf-supprsei> sbyyp<" thpH. evalural dselfrrc lve,cifnmenior are8ntnu ne gkeasm hebehiprar o sotedae rauw whlawt thsio_Heano wk.deooared, evecir aThe Sg"e"NazafDeoivnd.oNgharpRrFLICT so he o igheu.tNghrmeat o">seed">1g colbrotdeu.oNghatere ag s qBre eopevedinqus&#tai.oNghpp>rd rere wiprati w&#ebyypr al"NazafDeo,ar o chiefaexaesseaof make speviv cyou d , ftercHebtir8tife, woeng now totuared arcfallare .noubt — you have strengthened faA of ,ib/hand'seNazafDs , prvertieloo bloboyerfutresuring. Tbysr mlrh T,T al nas8ry p Tt arcoin="/,h knowr oio,theee tkg s qged a tTk.yllnT bpts. Y ito d Iln Trea awmmuni"pa briefaoyerviuk oea bwn nwin oid alb/hand'sevoea aseof igvaluseed">1g="puie hiprar atof ourtootu sb fayoI sd te hinviola ii t, and iehave,cifs is oohney n ceE HAese bI hurt sisa wgrasthe repamines aretline reall pra>fnmerynues oohneyslscep,tbseaof make se rattleof r clrt eorc f ar se are hefnmerysistl ynutashte bonflk.deooney="demiey wealb/hand i aas eor ared r cl;>fnmennces eor ared in r clatoot o we1iresrgr wgrollo> T>fnmebyte, /ome doubt — you have s3thened faah_rreputdttaiutyoI Wsst set sis ighsantn&#tmdtu ondae rauw wh IS es ly tssre, l nnd sie ss al seman whardy g. make we1ilictorpof itrmajest, toagrein tso endsiecer t, toape b are umy g tTk.yllssidd dientt, H&l thalugrio t, andMiltwoeril seved ,sna yas Hhoinim: t pdiain, H&l occaiew aluspatef lly toofaShl.)br t, and iehfoe , hetiiseE slnry, s hetiissretur, colbrvs thHs hetiisb haviialstkuseiise arcoinkusb al iehse rattleollowersAnd sst hemat ttbwn g"etd ofi of to s. Joy i aas ue ss al thpr">1l ynuwhysi i rg"e"S COera thattbwn sl. sbonstl g"e"acc ynuo fbrooS.wgrcas atnmen sbtnxaet,.noubt — you have stren4thened fa tcrepaus f fayoI nr o camospag d jSas ru youn msonurgeptnoeed,nH&l yoeroeedr "ovokelo l Lse mulalionb/hand'setines, as iehvoeahanW nsly ed it yNet sJ. Mnsympneyt make se sh="p be yolotedsoareascahuhHouseed">1, H&l np be yonFLICTaio l Lsoviv cfman aaDtl">< sumospwominarqu"puhl ynuzea ainuseed">1gollo> T>fnme th!elp, but a lion u have stren5rengtheneBn, you functtaiu T,T al > T>flond eisraul prasptmollomunwipuause "ogry to al fiTaio

T. De Witt Talmage.< seed">1.eur alorfallu="pub_rrFLICeof rake we1ry irve cGidd up atet wiolloblood.,T al nf r claa"Templis"natet w cGidd up all,T al nf lion i k mlloryout ad qussorwoma,us, h="/irhoiBrawwous/ome doubt — more of Christ thened faIN DOING ain WORK ASSIGNED HIM/ome doubt — more of Christ thened faIN FIGHTING WITH ain WEAPON GIVEN HIM/ome doubt — more of ChristVthened faSAMSON WAS PREPARED TO DIE FOR HIS CAUSEme nfub/hand se frt"ightd adiet e stron Phnd it inc."eTpisnrapat oiHebtir8w takus' rg, oeas H&l soted eorc bolontSas pgn co iehave,hollohn reants> hark">T. De Witt Talmage.Ilef, oneyao

r o g d jSaNow, yllealorhtnal Tght;Ena ie haiu ealor seveby grhen . miofylleesepreahouigrgEretl? miofylleesepreaoreaus f y wi tb_yzurgancoin b_tna? miofylleeseiedtheu tub_rmn d, lylleesepre ttbwn symptorblfoindiHeaborrtplu>)ecn, you remreanTh aiuhan>Ic as i isois. epaa m ru a"Ti="ptaowr o s?eBn, itagtir8eseid demind pra> knowitroeb seloby grhen . e, als niatise araka>rdld r nhe ,T al tourutit"noasr leafnto beWls Tto al tercndre fi rnot anu c="pitnusnow Tiaae oylleeed r#esepre thswnitnses sphato al fobritit,pw tm sumor mod htdesgrreciaee tsthhors/bting"e"ctisply toofaby tses atnmeyehundeleafss al s f y wi detppsdoswap,u knowetrouattler nhe scecu en ti classe "nl as aeafntbwn unues ne o="pub_rrdld r n . e, aS. Lese esepreahoiacebn, i w warfai.oOrals nynd no arcbergntbwn unoatnu="pub_rnhysie n sea hefnme seved,su>innaclasscrownpub_rbrvs thsl/brucsunshis fpe bs> knowitrligito i e s intinarditderblfoglomjSasndemajestr allynitnunoatnu sevetercblurcbosomf fayoIsng c, ht!tTbyousufdivly, s i"panti rta h,y, als ntbwn snd tyrditderblfocrystaow>innaclaehprueat mn comes dsp de. Sufdiv?rnhtrese sufdivtatoepa.tSufdivc="pitnurdllapsosssufdivc="pitnuend;ebn, you w tm e he S.ofaby tsl/brutis. co rT. De Witt Talmage.Iamoprar o whto b">the ty oto al tercGfury r ,dclctve stron necuot">tMas e An cis tt TH&l Jyoupsin TH&l JyhtnandArthanleMas aiT"erusa an>Iht ared t thlrhscep,run teveterc

tMashve "nFn nfaEngle d, MasgaretrencFr dintoJulidf faRnd ss al Elizabl stPetrowndf faRueiratin corcor hione "ney,renchiiespa_ve stroniuhabndiHeLICTSto al terircnecuossspan ban_ng. sly re , hn cogas fs ,dei pra al cur iprar ,us, he "nGfury. WollnTrga inu.eassst ub_rga <" thAnd doello.eassst ub_rdoor_onc wor.tWernIadorne tbha may Tshe retterpaa poinThofnnd ourrmirelesFLICT abonflk.n d wowin ttahato al v es bl ase tbhactim Tshe ipks dse eu s lsllnTc lsprueat/ome doubt — more of Christ thened faCONSIDER SOMEd slain WAYSaIN WHICH STRONG MEN GETlainIR LOCKS SHORN tTk.yse rattleof to biehvaman wl udistributio.tSomeccountitrli sh="prhysi al"dhvelop tha, someccountinti ndlfecealis ttaha tha, someccountinthedreeonece,Esomeccountintsoviv cpp> ki s. Modernhf sorieSf far o snulowetir8nme nes terircble dis" makn.tScep,tcDs rapat oiDplrlahfmake shlloronsalock ianfss al anowr oiPhnd it incllindre thanmenIhiissd eissdo>)

Ihiisse rattleoaolio yExhausoedrid deave,l wgrdissipdtICTStooI fthasism i cooiemt tcrepargr wgrdr> k_ttke warfspan tdesincomauseDplrlah,han>Ihiisaock iwdru shlln yEban assovivtICTStosufdivcsucc ynuosssivndr ,df, oabre , anye assprocsio_tn t" al dissipdtICT,u re.dLrsnecuot">trel,rencr oishraras e strbonflto bareT be yod ofk.deopAT. l yn.tTk.ofrn cose rwnpub_rndre fve stron carcareot">tgians,i al f classe "ng, or "isonleBuseas e stSpee theiab/hands,snaptsitagtinS.wgrr oisdclctlindespair, terircaock ishllno al terirc ync o T.ark">T. De Witt Talmage.ti ndCOerapcd yOh,eiatiseabsad spevtacla,ea llnTwshiprarrenme gl.tLydia,bH&l Herray t fworlintaovet e st Ch,han>Ibececu rersslzeeKollowe, foyrara,han>IlionanTeffediHeLoyoyervioerild pra al cardal owool, na yoyO yoal,trlloryoI si p o Sg"e"trehavdauseNes. Y diaiy n hanWshall!tWeatoehparable!hHtoin tsqueozasse "nli Tntorophe ; al 0 yoal,tprseite on, onnum rerfuciverers a may !tTkupaitcrepa"d deAn cnpt al Cleopazea;eroupaitcrepa"d deHenpa_IV.rencFr din. Fewssspan UlyynuossizeeKaaeiele="psafethve "nhsseaof Sy raa;efir8esripe Calypso! Os f fayoI g, orllshe ot">tmodernhpoes> ha heid deru t sgpn Tghtuhl ynu oT. , i"pub_r"Idyclctlinub_rK pra"ndraw bhavVio_es by ibe yoie uizedtind o Sg"e"hiiespa_nsellorus oy, apie ssy, af-5itcrepauhve "nextomai Tnofohn rsemret;ptouruelloroapaitcbrecise frt"Kse cwe">< /darlt"d deaorldnd giaintoolloo The Si isloryoI issuii," ll,a bonflipat oirecu yo pra>"d d="pitlipat oirscretrencoyer yTourut re.arot anus>rd readtupodLyou bptseeunto k oea, rcsscret,at oirscretrenc, rcse rattlefnmenfv, rcfallare ;iollowerrutit"ivdaoor ouwotscret,at orrvipain ahuhoftupaa rharm;eweooare it ySurrhndelorrent orpat oirharm,tral touy pn, iatolltlef of theusme nfut es by i

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1, bu olltloolecuo;eral tou temptir,tlay.h pra>tal Tnes teatyh,trapaa8olol. make by iths spom wndof tionrapaid tdatrto s. He"trehbledrid deagcnpt al f ar,hv es a v">rdr>H. evccecu ellowersrecu naptind un ged a ti w&#ebr pr; b_rblecu>Ihiisrashly tssbo ,aexan l uw/dru youon pra hnThdred, hesprueatd, H&l ral tou y lucr mol d.aHoy pproa hu>Ihiisfrieey,oexpece prarrerecepvn a of youon pr. "No,"aeci>Ihiisfrieey,o"iouyllekep, itssy, awhut psond bn pray, rcs thain comes sad adise ryn.tYllealorowin arcoinkse cih; attdclakse cihiolloyg ,fral "oducn itssv es oeedf l, evey, rcbyBalf."hAitind. f lTd ramfng now tdoLese dre thit yur alafin cosomech prarrekse cng now tsomech praprsyan w.eur tuese se, you g d jrenc, rcsly re ur"ala, rcsscretoo blo w.eDoiylleoft a endb/hand in th_rlap o SDplrlah?hSnned ind hn rsemret;p"Shswnme,"aeci>It oirraft, olln,o" bes iave yug, orse rattlelieth."hBn, Snned kep, hn rsemret. "Hoead was Hhoufvat,"aeci>Ishu e"IqBrawnr eoss beave yu/darltipa otEod deme?"tSinhwpgn co sotiehsemret;phesparlion e st i rhedre.or aov, i"pnnu Co mak, nhn pu#8olltlot oirharm o Swovecip,c t" al waoiprat alo;eral h_rlay, s deof tan>Ilotedtoclve,cifnmeu h,mn fonad ss al com ."oT es by y bu olltlointinley.htr /h"Ha!at !at !aSahands_w/dreTi athblmscretoare? H !aH !a"Bn, tezind parlion e st i rhedre; tezind lost,oheahanWmemtgaordhhn rsemret. "Anonrapalotedtoclve,cifnmeu h,mn fonad ss al com ."oAnonreatoehspevtaclaTi athatrencb/hand eslse ! Behal Tndru youone>) se are het oirar &se are heo Sg"e"temption nul/hah_reTi abn, wi tbipramemo;eron pr">1nofohn rrui biehpe frtare awake ti !or aoiPhnd it inclbeu sevetere,ib/hand!oAnonaoiawtkg o The SAn rslse ss al se frtIendclaforphasrola#8

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Iby itations, fby ie perdeparlionoeblonem!ark">T. De Witt Talmage.Ihiished o="piv clap," etc.tBeyundlaTce glin poinThretr orts qim>ared ar/ome doubt — you have s3thened faB"> Tt,Iatiseabsad experaspub_yown getterpalo bweatyPhnd p MelaschHhociaeerne tatal as, "toateSatah repargr wgeu s lsPhnd p."ark">T. De Witt Talmage.trtudi shexcep, wi;eral toa, wi vamaeas="pdll enflic>H. evs.aWeatowhut paeolldtd amoroft ig aeufr ari Tnions,ebg pgmrel,renI diseiaabe yoreas rel,rpu &uih; na yoyhisetiv as ie subjlasowhut pizeeKesirharmnuollom . Aal sinhwpAnd t izeeKg itedranti rnd t in comes this t">tmyrpu &uih elloI in comes this t">thi heid dyukeatyvdaoor mandfidiv coftupainjun pra" rc "oslectselloloi> sb" rctith by fhhundiprar orpu &uihs, fby i

T?oOavwowntotern ealorylletnf sivndetnfpry irveny, afrorbgo praueyundltarehamgsrnouylleancoiget it?oOavnxt_i st,TbeavyllehanWbres ninse in coby ttarehamgs/ome doubt — more of Christ danger ofBuh, o"ois.s hoiaceIT IS A FACTaIN OUR NATURE aiATlain DESIREd slKNOWLEDGE IS CONNECTED WITH ain DESIREd slSOCIETYSaNow hswnr clatle rwmmuni"pt oirasetwomenay grrd ris.reri T?hTonyllnT bpthcola y Rredrattarehamgsrandfmanafrorbpu &uiHeaitrepaa rtudy,viuseeunollowerssovietvi fayops. alryadpt cquainlion e stih ello fayops. owinalryadpt cquainlion e stih yOfTwersfor mrecReEETS. Whyops. alryadpt cquainlion e stiheEETS. Whhswnmatyv fayops. onylretslalorlpanlhverern cosetppsdoshorh,HedteatupoinT?,H&l hswnmatyvalorlpanlhvereladsaiis p. Tsisa wgrasthe setpsoshorh,of it?oBn, aupfe. teveterc
arlio tbeenreatoenti inn_t, andmisrhiefayllealor to sipraason,, eveciaupfe.iprang now tond iatiseabbe yors/daaupfe.iri TnEETS. Whyoateylleavoi Laceali cocamoyt_iprar orsiY iason, ">arlttarehamgs!hah_reTi ssspte ahucrtar vndetnfthwpAnsrhief/oe, aizeeKk.deoystrselfeSatah'ismieire a o tTouonffecetoofay, rcun EETS. Wh>H.haps hoey.htl ynuEETS. Wheeollteylleeed r#cantreveu u/ome doubt — more of Christ tthened faah_reTi ano won
arta h,prvertca cfman esun _Heao bloyoI tarehamgsrandsinontevecir us, hwenwhet ChhprvertieoyoImrnhynsivine, fby m; teatui , ain TENDENCYd slSUCH KNOWLEDGE TO DEADENaIN OUR OWN MINDS ain SENSEd slSIN ASlSUCH, TO DIVERa US FROM VIEWING IT ASlSOMETHING UTTERLY ANTAGONISTIC AND ABHORRENT TO A PURE AND HOLY GOD,oit"somech prasohbn tweatnpgmsn co snoebloiatblood.,T bpteasbbe yo> T,TdieleevetercCrosc yTourut re.be yomatyvcareotw/dreTrepen asci"seems dre tf lTese sonvlionororban unwall prare edinab alon parlprayar acetoofashato snoebl,y ppanflilyto a ues n in apa ii t, dinTemprehen>Iby i this t">t iovits th.oSoball praye ipaitcrbeavt afeth,o bonflmn tneon e sttdesDtl">< e frttrereturnhtnfit a of ng now tsoqim>ared ar dinTemsp<, twhinitrepaweKlef, ih yInns esumptuouwotscur t, wesparln e sttdesienochnceo bonflmapat oirscretrenc, rcsucc yntoollget_iprar otury irvaeust tInban unmeet el mun

< chut pa, alafmuntg"e"nd>)T. De Witt Talmage. T,T ce glin syparFLICTnofohnloamopram a tBn, aoaco rat"aeeonnals ntbwn isealn ceitife, woetak, Snned in tubon, onm.tWernub_yown be or hs, fby iEpistarcoinub_rHebtirs?hah_reTi anx dre tht a, Snned repa om nc eucofa ce glin mines8iav le GfucofaIsra l sond i"pIsra l'snfuhis ,s bonfldiofhelpttrere eelobi aave,hoebloues n igno arare ,h bonfldiof nsly eohnloyrell.T. De Witt Tetpic">Miltwos als, pa oerblfob/hand Agontitegt,I>tre, se, meiti he"ylletcatyod, b/hand o Sg"e"Bd ar it"noasrtealn ceib/hand o Sg"e" oer.dMiltwo's trbordyrdspierasb/hand esaa rtdtulytomajestr ,atilnivchdro,Tg, orH&l admy a ar inp be yorespev,, eveciinlhn rnme g"rsw/hah_rt/hand o Sg"e"Bo foofeJuds sh=ss>J.t TH&

k teatyh,ti , evetercths s,da ghtn bbloynuTc lspared ayorespev,, r us, hI tp> k hutit"ivllnTwoateylled wowinpared ayohelptspa pr.LA_boyishteslnry,yeddiaiThsnuloEETS. Whkrecifor_ave,has hetwomenemindsoia.eJuthe liTsorh,of llnTwrelad boo ndot Imoroaomemptaeustauhve "nbe yoqali_tn t"woatewdru fyt_ werl ll. k,at orrvipaaTfaisein prainlb/hand's oey.htr /hah_reTi a fathaomou hro Sg"e"crack<> sb fayoI musnnuwomenar oipotheo Sg"e"noisy oey.htr eo Sg"e"olol/hah_ryou snofohnlomapat oibsss o">hnl;eral toa, ipaaThar>Iubiprarres, llinln Tvat tTk.ysgr wgest ghtnandhn rdap,uh,trapaabon, nc en iv lyrtercteakest ghtnandhn rdap.oNghdre thh adi Lmlionpgmsn cohn reants> ; b_rbrgancoinsn coIsra lto bloyoI Phnd it inc.hBn, t re thahn ceE HAese sn c.nFn nfaall,Tglahoeewn hiicchs/derfucahe"ylles8iavZrea rtolloweatcipat oiun rhaptr eo Sbi aave,Sasnde liTsespa_oncb/hand' abire ipaantbuhe if lTral thndeloesaa rumor mmo y pr.LA&l hswnm
T'rspuroo n.tTk.ofndclaese pllnTworircboy'secarTan toapeeareiby me tves. Aal si,twomenar os. o ppy auipice het oiboy i abre cifnmeuomenasunflwse y prahn gEresnu c="phiish ppy ylles8un ilsyoI ith csm t"yowntoaseentIsra lDeo,ahCTiutl.Iby ipeadeo Sbi a ohe s. Aal eswnI tp> k wCTi, len ityoyHLrssemundlchaptr ,orb/handli"pt oiramp o SDan."oT ereyh,toantbutivelat re th,n e st i rco recrFLedrlve,ciw/dru youom rerfuco Sbi atribe alorwoaketli oe Cheollomii tashvexe ctie ello>H.haps ollogrio.reants5 k weatnpgmahuhoftupaereyweTto foo rhprueat mn cooyervg"ere cecu yle rsad amoperaspub_ivcsel, sd te h p tcrbeavao sb faimmemtalnpAT. nheo Sg"e"baspanzuetwrecigrfucahe"fman,zuetwreci> T>fnmeg"e"nfury God hv es w,tdelSheoh,haug, orscre tnfvg"e"nfury ond yoI riviv cH&l HLrsselfishteH&l a g, orpuroo ncoins rikb_ivcH&l s rikb_o The"pt oirvs thsis. EETS. Whyreladollo> T>fnmeollo> T'secaa hrm"pubi aofury,vyrewi"pt oiglomjntbwn iSf fa> Tt,urll swrll sod, tations, fby ie pe,aI vect gnarres, tohc demrawfousealn i"pt oiramp o SDan. Aal eswnweKaaeihe"ptinub_rv">rdrchaptr ,oond r i, len ityoyonsrb/handli"pGaza," llsrb/handlpruea praintinLve,c" llsnouyllepof it,orP nollond Plut is oi"pGaza."o>azaymapat oirhiefaseaporns, fby iPhnd it inc,haug, orcamoe ctv ccie ss i oy,apeearis -loo_Heaplein tmunzedst> sbs rik> sla_ve strons>J.e, moeseotyv fayoesism -oyervioeyoI ribe o SDan. Aalss lr us, hb/hand' aun azayi aun sptkg tnfvweln ociinlhn rlve,cith_reTi anx dre thr at v n teatyh,thclsazayinrndrly ylles.o>azaylay,be yo.easptinub_rramp o SDan,nH&l yoereTaln catyh,thclspuroo nT>fnmeoelS mapatreladpu#8tinub_rvest.h aoifverti , th_reTi anx esrip> sb>azayolloyg >fnmem . ur izeeKrl lix id deave,. Os f y.ht, i"pas fsias ,vyretrutedlve,oues nly/oe, ad wowinmrlieveitoorsgr wgly havt oigrfuco Slve,cifnmeinTaln catyynuTc lsget oeblooyerviouylleave yonsrvs tly/oeet,aoveterc
hetwohs ych alaoveterchs yctscret,at orHsk i="sinuatiprly,or eln d ,ateln d ,a bes iave u y cretrencbyyIve rattleli s.h eln d s ban sl.)br pr"ncie s,deve"pany i pdrencpuroo n,nrhut pizeeKspanffohneymlionpoa, hn sly itel.aWey, ond rhut pedtheu izeeKseenTwoatellnTseS e re thatrelada t Vdiaiais weanrdr>fthas hetS. ; ond rhut pedtheu ls ntbnylln' rhedre ged a yoafot ptoancoinDplrlah.eBn, you llnTind no puroo ncataall,Ttezind no rufdircoins Tan by.tToae ghtn asrdoomodTwredr>fth sevetercrock ,vyrell.)echabi aave,SaAhte bataaestrmeat H&l awf lTSruthe liseoyervonc, r aip! Iatiseterc T>ged s yg ,fiouylledoLese a hrmtppropr lytoiter clauomolyll.h"Iendclaforphasrola#8
T. De Witt Talmage.Ibyae make e Si s thaipauiiul prasptm bolandtind o Sg"e"mnes n.cT ereymapabotstron nehisv cH&l r"ecsup nnrhisv . Aal it"noasb/hand's se rattleiveterseorespev,shtypi al"ofa hys ercse rattl,at or bonflipamllalcH&l sationual?aHorhralsin r i, ldisrernhfwocelr tha het oiDtl">< e anhuvat tTk.yhys estnollrblfose rattl,at e se rattlelfogrfuly tssbyr bonfla llnTwsiu yo rnme "fman,zH&l wbonflfildsed,suhys estnjoy havhs ycfnme vs ten whactICT,uit"noastreladg itedrbssahavervoncd ramy/munwempldtICT,ullo ytsitt> sbs dclaH&l affece pra caty> T>wilafsemspdanarransollrbuas="tcogianss. Iatisetreladattahaedrbsss th-dmaiv ,ss th-sd tufr ,cifnmeoruhrwmmu/ome doubt — more of Christ thened faain LOSSd slSAMSON'S STRENGTH yNow, w atcipat oikeyetoiyle rsal affais?tInbond rhpe,aiatisefallare ;ian>Ibyae ipat oikeyetoiBalfat oiwi>)ry intsdi s thsi="ur"anWnfvsahipra"d deahsnuloia ues n revolShe"Hoead waItdoLyle rg, orwi>) T?"alo bsetpetoiylenkoH&l dahucrt alaovub_yown is dond th_reTi af arf lTdaoor /hah_ysn v n inzen>Ido praH&ych tm;eronofrn cogrfucf-5< pr oH&l demir hefnmeno wr ,us, hmllalcfallare ecamoytTaln ki inuo">wi>)Istrselvestrhre tnfv) sbsiingreoregretnolloitreal eerneteddemir fnme esolutind o Sahavd tha/hH din eineoruhrpen_tevub_yo_reTi aancelr thast or dclades n ivllnToebloindoyt_iprar orsiYTa of me nfut es by reyiualsinbu youopseh niandfve s/ob/handlpreh oofnmelo f

T,Tladrystllod;ebn, heTc lsn v n rygehaSg"e" -5< preo STemparFLIe yoenochnceoercT. De Witt Talmage.J.t TH camospai pdrenceeollteapdrenc esolutind.h"Iendclaforpha," hn say ,a"rola#8

IboS be yomoey.htf lTheassn iatiseit rred nhe >rytr /hah_reTi ailsllnyalo ,o>H.haps ilslotedm Tto a etaonen whis.a eineowoorespev,sheo Sg"e"f, foagiaiynH&l yoeif, fondcl. ur exagg.reroryoastrselves, iav le un plein tw atcipasomeccount all. worebundaor ofat oiwicl. Iatisea barticlrvonc, ritife, wo,at or ead wowinonc, r elvesthet Chhndclallodinub_rv">pra catyw f y.ht/hahi heibonflipaaln ruhrived,su>llceeEETS. Whyruhrapauirea oneollohuvii t,cifnmeoruhrapauimoLIe yfbr preh niEETS. Wh kind t" rtetak arcfaiseerfucon oypst">r o fuhis .h"Iein copu#8tinresolee, atyvda,cifnmeI shllafshl.< mys thif, foEETS. Whf, foororbr o cheideo Sbabre,hf, foororbr o bild prafneceeo Sp as scLICT,nH&l ororbr o connettICT,ulndyeshe danian>Ibo-mllrswni"pub_rlioipraghtnandyo-dan" ng now tubi aipalanguaor >J.t Tfami iak_tinusealn, i"pub_reas,vif nse intg"e"hedre.oI"pubi artdtuf fam he" r exagg.reror, rcu, fdor,oit"iveterc
Iube" -es n aseenytbipramlloryaknaa dai yctsparFLoiwicliwg,snaonflchut panyalo y prTladryveu uoofnmewicled i"yod le opfe.irr.hTonydocwsinu biionpoa, ghtn antsdipat oiuruhrdocwsinu ofat oibundaor.e eln nes teatybo-mllrsw,iihahn SbegTese tl. T,Tif sinbu Hr i, lno wr ise wce"hedrolem, poa, hn perash"noa. ur d wowindoe tht a, r orsad adeluire mhcolpeacrvioeyoI mines8as weln it"ivetercoyer.hTonrr alorteBusa inuatyteiseCo mak dahucipra"d descep,tcDs ,T bpteout pladtetak p. Tifat oyomoey.htht a, r oy ceE HAese atpanyalo mak forolltloo bloytTaln al shl.< ty me tvestf, f.LA_ghtni, leants e re thaf, fotrelalieveiok_tindislalieve;etezi, leveciaeS e re thaabrawnle rred scrupl hefnmesap,u"To-mllrsw,iihai, aoapeeares d ,aIendclaforphasral shl.< mys thaf, foofat om";sbo ,aintreai t,ciheTi aflshediprar om severeme thatr-danauhve "nbe yofe.tseve mak, an>Ibo-mllrsw,iihai, v n daw b severem, i, lfan>Ihnlo wi oeblo bbloGfucH re thahasrdeparlio/hah_reTi ailsusealn, asrGfuchasrcr owfous, ivllrvelnn wrel asic_t, andmial, bod,cifnmeertdtu.h aoioucup nFLIe ypAT. Ti a>H.haps hoI g, osss o">Hiisgdf,s. ur izeeKseenTitcrind. f llhvexeessk p. TevethI benWnfvsiclare . Wr izeeKseenTitcrind. f llhvexeessk p. TioeyoI mlltuincllinmivtan>IHeLICTS. Wr izeeKseenTitcrind. f llhvexeessk p. TioeyoI mllalcfoofants>e mf lly t, olosomeiworseiv">1nemiln, Ioncpur_t, rhrerdhits thaivetercoyercifnmeaono arccarTan ofansef lly toral honoun o apte ated,na wgrbuelloeophe ,ve "nbe yomemspa_o Sr orsamebeginy pr.LWr izeeKseenTitcrind. f llhvexeessk p. TioeyoI wi hys ercregICT,ulndr orsationual ave,. Osub_yo_reTmaparar &se are ;aovub_yo_reTmapaunurlief;aovub_yo_reTmapascol png:opu#8t "nbl yneme "omtierenct "n"l as un &#"zind plein tuhve "ngrlceeo S> T,T="pg"e"hiiespa_esaa ths s;ian>Ius f fayoI brvs teo ya tha ofat oimines8an>Ionct oiChurnflhapabeenTwoe "oducs o">a "wshipraiav le un e"a bonfl "omtiediclas,n comes ey,rencfl yhtescor hipraand scath pra>if nse Spee uceust tTbi aipaas fsideco Shuvat experaspub.eBn, youreTi aH&
IHo8fuysie "vipaomi,hed seved,, oloitcrout pln pra bolTan>IHotnbl yn prewe stih yToureTi aH poinThueyundl bonflrerdv nyuit"noa.LIaiwCTceE HAellols ntbnyexan alo mak or bonf ellowersprsya ncactglyr bonf,etercoyoytTonct oi>ared ar rerdv nyueout pladdv naaeiee,aiateout pladmunzedryoyre> T'seuniollrbdeai pr; iateout pln, yemptKtons esumptind o"pg"e"Ganarreih yNfTvrrooares exan l uhswnmatyvinjun esetezi, ldret re th,nin heautlelloweautl,nin runduv,ellomineshefnmebe scathel yn.tHCTiutl.< Mmakok_tinsanarrerem, aoinmorntith bn, ywo, ll,ayoI nmorntith bn, ywmaky,iwiclrladfatal.oThnyllnTi artdld pra loencfeblo> Tealn ceitithhefnmebhve "n this t">te "nrasetiulo farrereme thaal wi oon mlnieust tWeat v n hapabeenTse frtfnmesaimeoruas,n">te "nssstlldtIe ypAT. nuo">r i abn, d,ayoureTi aH&
te "nadedtitynH&l yoeimunzinuita_o Sr orlve,ciw/onflk..< grlce;opu#8t "nfor mrec wowi,nH&l yoeilnes niceE HAese cdnstitelilytoisoleror,nn peraod_o Sr orlve,s lroghe Cheororban
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onn cnts; and novhof ChrisDp>      ao them a/bd arhub.indaetpical/dbt/8401 s a mabs8401cobs   chllaewgesonn cpdabs ao them a/bd arhub.indajuds s/14-1 s a m uds sh14:1-4onn cobs p>      ao them a/bd arhub.indaetpical/dbt/5654 s a mabs5654cobs   betr      ao them a/bd arhub.indaetpical/dbt/8410rs a mabs8410cobs    sTisust-mak pra>exaessesoni>onn caonad Tlibedry" id Tlibedry">onn cnts; and novhof ChrisLibedryconfida but a lion hof Chrtmor s ao them alibedry/schlffreae_>H. onl naclood./dn "oducsoryage.ry inin/drussbyr , llinln ApivndixT co, rcargu thasfllowersDtl">ita_o Sblood.,cH callettICT_encthI mllorge.iansslloUn tasianssiveresrviirsTCT_blood.' a>H. on,adi Lexcellspt"serv">1n comes cH. onl naclood./dn "oducsoryage. T,TmaT,TH&l demCTS. Bn, naIvellnTi aoempte te u rssaye is ese alictorexpecee tororbhipapowr /hah_refllorwhet ChhisrGfucoempte tnaIvethorrssaye is expecee tororbHipapowr cal wi.eObjlasusta2: Fuysie , aln cyou bptwmmunmy acses byuinvoi prathordtl">< nad olo foolloananffece du1n co> T'sepowr cal wi.e ao them alibedry/aquinasrsummd_eaeologi a/w/ddiv _eae_temptaeustl nagod/s a ityon munzinuve sEETS30;onn cbrdaoned fc but a lion citaeust mSinhahahomasrAquinasEETS. Waoned fc but a lion citaeust2paSummdhah_ologi aaoned fcpda but a lion hof Chrtmor s ao them alibedry/ma toren/eae_oyerl nadav f/vi_eae_exilemunzinuve s a mT oiExilb_--Cunzinuve onn cbrdaoned fc but a lion snipper sW,ahio.r wi psalmt">rty-fouysi.h y isupfe.iri Tnpoa, itcdvteeho bloyoah,peraod_g"rsw rg, orfneceedn comatyvparlshe Si ,can>Iged s aeunit, dinr at i rniseiappanflilyho ag thaamjnan>Idisronnettve Unlpanhyoo ncalryadptcdnstdelod, bonfl rrerpurorsolilo>J.e ,ayoi isef llhe Sexhlltaeustaapdreants5<,8as weE HAethisv lyrbeomes c< Rhvelaeustonn cbrdaoned fc but a lion snipper s[Sadedti rpRrFLICT] Sivub_yo_ day _encthI Greeunphndosopheu y isubjlast">ti rpRrFLICT alarevelaeustthapabeenTfe giyoyHLrmi oon disrueire nan>Idisputu amoprascerlarsdH&l yoeologian . Matyvdll enflicyoeon esetn copeenTadvapubT,T al un _mdtulysab alone tas unsenab s. Ivtitse iessett lean_praan>Iusi,ninrpRrFLICT describesee "npH. onal i"unu"pub_encond indtl"dual usevethI m he" al sations, fH&
rdrdana[Frorbr o cal< preo SPhnd p (John i. 43).hTonydctorenu trFLedrin John' aun owoochaptr stcdns itutu ac rekcifnmeiaya H.haps beedn et el esaa cunzedstn comes ldstn rekylinblood.'ismintitmjn( John xii. 1)mt tcto foowoodctor cojounfsy ororbr o JordancoinCand]br oreymapauimalrpaor [IvtPalsst> b_yo_ malrpaor ngremotyvusuv lyrbegancke bwioys t.hTonyfr as sfs n yo_ malrpaor mapautet oihel,renct oibridegroom,nH&l mapasomeccount "o doord8oon seveualodctor(Gen.Lxxix.e ao them alibedry/mcglrvey/eae_fouy-fold_gospel/xxii_jssas_wmmu _ono_un &# s a ityon munzinuve sEETS30;onn cbrdaoned fc but a lion citaeust mJ. W. McGlrveyEETS. Waoned fc but a lion citaeust2paTouoFouy-Fot pGospelaoned fcpda but a lion hof Chrtmor s ao them alibedry/bunyasreae_wmmu _ najohn_bunyas_volu ts_1-3/grlce_anot aChr_to_eae_rhief s a mGrlceeAnot aChrn comes ChiefaencSinfsrs:onn cbrdaoned fc but a lion snipper sA BRIEF AND FAITHFUL RELATION slain EXCEEDINGlMERCY slGOD IN CHRIST TOlHIS POOR SERVANT, JOHN BUNYAN; WHEREIN IS PARTICULARLY SHOWEDlain MANNER slHIS CONVERSION,lHIS SIGHT AND TROUBLE FOR SIN,lHIS DREADFUL TEMPTATIONS, ALSOlHOW in DESPAIREDl slGOD'SlMERCY, AND HOW ain LORD AT LENGTH THROUGH CHRIST DID DELIVERlHIM FROM ALL ain GUILT AND TERROR THAT LAY UPON HIM.tW/druun conolad el eibriefdrylaeustao Snes8calloyremes wmmunefethI m htitmj,ao Snes8temptaeustsbr oref ,rapaulsin oa, hn oa,flkrt ve st >ao them alibedry/bunyasreae_wmmu _ najohn_bunyas_volu ts_1-3/grlce_anot aChr_to_eae_rhief s a ityon munzinuve sEETS30;onn cbrdaoned fc but a lion citaeust mJohn BunyasEETS. Waoned fc but a lion citaeust2paTouoWmmu mo SJohn Bunyas Volu ts 1-3aoned fcpda but a lion hof Chrtmor s ao them alibedry/ktha/eae_ore, n_and_permattha_valurl naeae_old_te&#a tha/xaeae_hebtir_saors_and s a modesHebtir SaorsdH&l yoeir Prdv nbsonn cbrdaoned fc but a lion snipper s[SadedIEzeki5 asta lioenuo">refe, wu rtie h ns werr rerdgnize tbhve "n ohe s:ve "n rophea het oipn est ,nH&l yoeiw ru mivton saors. Fros terircoypstH&l pensetn cocome prvertcdluclHln ceiomi, prsrencthI O HATe&#a tha. Ofayo_sutg"ruepa lioenuyoeiw ru mivton saors aloefdroore "omtttha lloweln oaren.hTonyrwr t. ow"hiiespa_ofaIsra l stonyrareached no puml tht home,,dnxlodinub_yiappearl ao them alibedry/ktha/eae_ore, n_and_permattha_valurl naeae_old_te&#a tha/xaeae_hebtir_saors_and s a ityon munzinuve sEETS30;onn cbrdaoned fc but a lion citaeust mblarses Foshe KthaEETS. Waoned fc but a lion citaeust2paTouoOre, n &iPH.mattha Valur_encthI O HATe&#a thaaoned fcpda but a lion hof Chrtmor s ao them alibedry/newmat/parorhial_and_pla n_t home,_vol_viiiat home_viiajosias_a_pnes nnfaced, yoiah,hauPnes nnsfllowersIgnxlaha. onn cbrdaoned fc but a lion snipper s"B"> b_hdarlt"astthndel,nH&l yoouohlshihuvbl l yoye thabefllorwerse pe,anaIvethouohdar tt oa, IKspakeea of theweis plein tond a of thewersinbabreantsde ureof,Tt a, r oy rhrut pleTemspe desolFLICT alaa c r e tond hlshinflicyoy a
Iubee tsanes8g"e"e pe.e Behot pto_refllo,aIendclafoe Chet uepun comey fdtheuS,sH&l yoouoshllinmrifoe Chel in comeyrgrio.rina olce;oH&l yo> b_ ync shllafnot"seelHln cei bolT bonflIendclaln prausevethis plein."--2 K prsr ao them alibedry/newmat/parorhial_and_pla n_t home,_vol_viiiat home_viiajosias_a_pnes nnfaced ityon munzinuve sEETS30;onn cbrdaoned fc but a lion citaeust mJohn Henpa_NewmatEETS. Waoned fc but a lion citaeust2paParorhialoH&l Pla n S home,,dVol/hVIIIaoned fcpda but a lion hof Chrtmor s ao them alibedry/mcfadyen/dn "oducsustlto_eae_old_te&#a tha/juds s s a m uds sonn cbrdaoned fc but a lion snipper sFllowerswomenemind preo S cei drly hiiespa_endctife, woeofaIsra l ston bo foofeJuds s,h bonflcoveu y iperaod_ororbr o ophe mo SJoshuaoyremes beginy prTo Smes ee ugrlb_ nes8g"e"Phnd it incrte r">ti e&#ima ar impomae co;eendciatisebe yoolltuieroryake by ielr tha cunzeibute tbhve "nleror edotlls alorsonr ai yctsparFLod_ororbr o ihoihpt"ston esewoo ncmllalcteryfseefarrepoinT.hToatcmllalcipalotedylablldtulysstdtul ivtii. 6-iii. 6heibonflipaa sorh,of "ogrimmoelloareoveen conii. 7-xvi. 31,h bonflcons itutusr ao them alibedry/mcfadyen/dn "oducsustlto_eae_old_te&#a tha/juds s s a ityon munzinuve sEETS30;onn cbrdaoned fc but a lion citaeust mJohn Edglr McFadyenEETS. Waoned fc but a lion citaeust2paIn "oducsustoyremes O HATe&#a thaaoned fcpdants; and novhof Chr2isLinksh will ao them anivajuds s/14-4faced, uds sh14:4 NIVonn cbr /l ao them anltajuds s/14-4faced, uds sh14:4 NLTonn cbr /l ao them aesvajuds s/14-4faced, uds sh14:4 ESVonn cbr /l ao them anasbajuds s/14-4faced, uds sh14:4 NASBonn cbr /l ao them akjvajuds s/14-4faced, uds sh14:4 KJVonn c but a lion p" cbr /l br /l oned fcao them a/bd arapps.indajuds s/14-4faced, uds sh14:4 Bd ar Appsonn cbr /l ao them ajuds s/14-4faced, uds sh14:4 Parllaelonn cbr /l ao them a/bd aiaparaaela.indajuds s/14-4faced, uds sh14:4 Bd aia Parllelaonn cbr /l ao them a/hs ybd ar.ind.cnajuds s/14-4faced, uds sh14:4 Co> b ncBd aronn cbr /l ao them a/sinhaebd ar.indajuds s/14-4faced, uds sh14:4 Fr"puhcBd aronn cbr /l ao them a/bd eltmor.indajuds s/14-4faced, uds sh14:4 GH.matcBd aronn c but a lion p" cbr /l br /l oned fcao them a/bd arindoe"t. .indajuds s/14-4faced, uds sh14:4 Cndoe"tan esonn c but a lion p" cbr /l br /l oned fcao them a">Bd ar Hubonn cbr /l will will tdl trdaotablel will nts;id Tlefr s ao them ..ajuds s/14-3 s a onmwu eoveu='lft.srcm alefrgif.png"' onmwu eout='lft.srcm alefr.png"' ityon uds sh14:3 s img srcm alefr.png"onad Tlfr abremen="0"s lrn uds sh14:3 /l al will nts;id Trvs t s ao them ..ajuds s/14-5 s a onmwu eoveu='rs t.srcm arvs tgif.png"' onmwu eout='rs t.srcm arvs t.png"' ityon uds sh14:5 s img srcm arvs t.png"onad Trs t abremen="0"s lrn uds sh14:5 /l al will nts;id Tbotlefr s ao them # onmwu eoveu='botlefr.srcm abotlefrgif.png"' onmwu eout='botlefr.srcm abotlefr.png"' ityon Topto">Paor s img srcm abotlefr.png"onad Tbotlefr abremen="0"s lrn Topto">Paor /l al will nts;id Tbotrvs t s ao them # onmwu eoveu='botrvs t.srcm abotrvs tgif.png"' onmwu eout='botrvs t.srcm abotrvs t.png"' ityon Topto">Paor s img srcm abotrvs t.png"onad Tbotrvs t abremen="0"s lrn Topto">Paor /l al will nts;id Tbot s ifrad owidth="100%" hnvs t="1500"sscrol< pr="no" srcm abotoe"ubhpar s a frad bremen="0"l ifrad l will tdl trdaotablel will /bod,l /s al>