The Grenada sentinel., 1889-10-05

that there ara no psrils IN pmap's path
way. COPS grice aio1s caa make al
Isabella Gcahtm, o. a Christina Alison,
or della Fiske, or Catherine of 81.
ena. Temptations lurk aboIt the bright.
est domestic circles. Il was no uumean-
| ing thing whan God sat up amidst the
splendors of His word the character OF
| the infamous Dslilah.
Again, this stran ye 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 oi
Samson to depend on the length of his
hair; when the shears clipped it his
strength was gone. The strength Of man
is variosly distributed. Sometimes il
lies in physical development, sometimes
in intellectual attainments, sometimes in
heart force, sometimes in social position,
sometimes in financial. accumulation !;
and there is always a sharp shears ready
to destroy it. Every day there are
Samsons ungianted. saw young
man start in life under the
most cheering advantages. His
acute miEd was at home in all
scientific dominions. Hs reached note
only all rugged attainments, but by deli
cate appreciatiou he could catch the
tinge of the cloud and the sparkle of the
wave and the diapason Of the thunders.
He walked forth in life head aud shoul-
ders above others in mental stature. He
could wrestle with giants in opposing
systems OF 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. Skepticism was the
Delilah that shore his locks off, and all
the Philistines of doubt, and darkness
and despair We're upon him. He died in
a very prison of unbelief, his eyes out.
Far back in the country districts-just
where l purposely omit to say--there
was born one whose fame will last as
long as American institutions. His
name was terror to all enemies of free
government. He stood the admired of
millions; the Nation uncovered in his
presence, and when he spoke senates sat
breathless under the spell. The plot
ters against good government attempted
to bind him with green withes and weave
his locks in web, yet he walked forth
rom the enthrallment, not knowing he
had burst bond. But from the wine cup
here arose destroying spirit that came
'urth to capture his soul. He drank until
lis eyes grew dim and his knees knocked
jogether and his strength failed. Ex-
lausted with life long designations, he
went home to die. Ministers pronounced
eulogiums, and poets sung, and
painters sketched, and sculptors chiseled
he majestic form into marble, and the
world wept; but every where it was known
hat it was strong drink that came like
he Infamous Delilah, and his locks were
,horn.
From the Island of Corsica there start
I'd forth nature charged with unparal-
eled energies to make thrones tremble
md convulse the earth. Piedmont Ma
oles, Bavaria, Germany, Italy, Austria
and England rose up to crush the rising
nan. At the plunge of his bayonets
oastiles burst open. The earth groaned
With the agonies of Rivoli, Austerlitz,
Saragossa and Eylau. Five million men
slain in his wars. Crowns were showered
1t his feet, and kingdoms hoisted tri-
lmphal arches to let him pass under,
and Europe was lighted up at
he couhagration Of consuming cities.
He could almost have made u cause
way of human bones between Lis
Don and Moscow, No power short of
God could arrest him. But
,ut of the ocean of human blood there
arose a spirit in which the conqueror
ound more tnan q matcn. The very am
oition that rocked the world was now to
% his destroyer. 1t grasped for too
much, and in its effort lost all. He
cached up after the scepter Of universal
dominion, but slipped and fell back into
lesolation and Punishment. The Amer
can ship, damaged of the storm, to- day
puts up in st. Helena, and the crew coup
20 see the spot where the French exile
expired in loneliness and disgrace, the
mightiest of all Sans ons shorn Of his
ocks by ambition, that most merciless
Of all Delilahs.
d. I stand before man to-day, the
locks of whose strength are being toyed
with, let me tell you to escape lest the
shears Of destruction take y our moral
and your spiritual integrity. Do you not
see your sandals beginning to curl on
that red-hot path? This day, in the name
of Almighty God tear of the beautify-
ing vail and the embroidered mantle of
this old hag Of intquity, and l show you
the ulcers and the bloody ichor and the
cancered lip, and the parting joints, and
the macerated limbs, and the wriggling
putrefaction, and cry out: Oh, horror
of horrors! In the stiffness of this Sab
bath hour lift warning. Remember it
is easier to form bad habits than to get
clear of them; in one minute of time you
may get into sin from which all eterni-
ty can not get you out.
Oh, that the voice of Gods truth might
drown the voice of Delilah. Come into
the ways Of pleasantness and the paths of
peace, and by the grace Of a pardoning
God start for thrones of honor and do
minion lpon which you may reign, rather
than travel the road to dungeon where
the destroyed grind in the mills Of de-
spair, their locks shorn and their eyes
out.
REMOVING PAINT.
Now Methods That Arc Tar More Thor