The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1889-10-02

LlHnd AlbOp, Or rluclia ploho, VI O"eA.N
rine Of Siena. Temptations lurk about the
brightest domestic circle. 1t was no un-
meaning thing when God set up amidst the
splendors of His word the character OF In
famous Hciilah.
Again, this strange story Of the, text leads
me TO consider some of the ways in which
strong men get their locks shorn. God, for
some reason best known to Himself, made
the strength of Samson to depend on the
length of his hair; when the shears clipped
1t his strength was gone, The strength Of
men is variously distributed Sometimes 1t
lies in physical development, sometimes in
intellectual attainment, sometimes in heart
force, sometimes In social position, some
times in financial accumulation, and there Is
always a sharp shears read TO destroy 1t.
Every day there are Samsons ungianted.
saw young man start in life
under the most cheering advantages. His
acute mind was at home in all scientific
dominions. He reached not only all rugged
attachments, but by delicate appreciation he
could catch the tinge Of the cloud and the
sparkle OK the wave and the diapason Of the
thunder. He walked forth In life, head and
shoulders above others in mental stature.
systems philosophy, and carry off the gates
Of opposing schools, and smite the enemies
Of truth hip and thigh with great slaughter.
But he began to tamper with brilliant free
thinking. Modern theories Of the soul
threw over him their Establishments. Skep-
ticism was the Delilah that shore his locks
of, and all the Philistines Of doubt and
darkness and despair were upon him. he
died in very prison Of unbelief, his eyes
out.
Far back in the country districts-iust
where purposely omit TO say-there was
born one whose fame will last as long as
| American institutions. His name was the
terror Of all enemies Of free government.
He stood, the admired Of millions; the ma
tion uncovered in his presence and when he
spoke Senates sat breathless under the
spell. The plotters against good govern
ment attempted TO bind him with green
withes and weave his locks In a web, yet he
walked forth from the enthrallment, not
knowing he had burst bond. But from
the wine cup there arose a destroying spirit
that came forth 10 capture his soul He
drank until his eyes grew dim and his knees
knocked together and his strength failed.
Exhausted with lifelong designations, he
went home 10 die. Ministers pronounced
eloquent eulogiums, and poets sung, and
painters sketched, and sculptors chiseled the
majestic form into marble, and the world
wept, but everywhere II was known that IL
was strong drink that came like the infamous
Delilah and his locks were shorn.
From the Island OF Corsica there started
forth nature charged with unparalleled
energies TO make thrones tremble and con-
vulse the earth. Piedmont Naples, Ba-
varia Germany, Italy, Austria and England
rose up to crush the rising man. At the
plunge of his bayonets bastiles burst open.
The earth groaned with the agonies Of
Rivoh, Austerlitz, Saragossa, and Eylau.
Five million men slain in his wars. Crowns
were ,showered at his feet and kingdoms
hoistsd triumphal arches to let him pass
under, and Europe was lighted up
at the 'conflagration Of consuming
cities. He could almost have made
A tcauseway of human benes between
Lisbon and Moscow. No power short
Of 'omnipoteht God could arrest him. But
outof the ocean Of human blood there arose
aspirit In which the conqueror found more
than match. The very ambition that had
rocked the world was now 10 be his de-
stroyer. II grasped for too much. and in It's
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sceptor Of universal dominion, but slipped
and fell back into desolation and Danish
ment The American ship, damaged Of the
storm, To- day puts up In St. Helena, and
! the crew 90 10 see hespot where the French
exile expired In loneliness and disgrace, the
mightiest Of all Samsons shorn Of his locks
by ambition, that most merciless Of all De.
iliiahs.
i have not time to enumerate. Evil asso.
Citations, sudden successes, spendthrifi
habits, miserly proclivites, and dissipations
are the names Of some Of the shears with
which men are every day made powerless.
They have strewn the earth with the car.
casses Of giants and filed the prison house
with destroyed Samsons, who sit grinding
the mills Of despair, their locks shorn and
their eyes out. II parents only knew u
, what temptation their children were sub
iected they would be more earnest In theil
, prayers and more careful about their ex'
, ample. No young man escapes having the
. pathway OF sin pictured In bright colors be
fore him.
The first time ever saw city-it was
! the city Of Philadelphia was mere lad
: / stopped at hotel, and remember In Tho
I eventide corrupt man piled me with hfs
Internal art BE saw i was green. He
wanted 10 show me the sights Of the town
He painted the path Of SIN until II looked
: like emerald, but ! was afraid Of him.
showed back from the oaslilsk; MADE uI
my mind he was pasllisk. 1 remember
e how he reeled his chair round In front o.
effort attempted TO destroy my soul; bul
' there were good angels In the air that night
, II was no good resolution on my part outll
was the altencompassing grace OF goot
God that delivered me- bewarel beware
= young man.
, There Is way that see 9th right unto
I man, bnt the end thereof y death. II all thi
victims q an impure lie IN all lands ant