Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1889-09-30


mon was as follows:
One thousand pounds, or about five
thousand dollars Of our money, we're thus
offered for the capture OF gsint 1t
would take skillful photographer to pic
ture Samson as he really was. The most
facile words are not supple enough to de-
scribe him. He was gaint and child
the conqueror and the defeated; able to
snap a lions Jaw, and yet captured
by the sigh of maiden. He
was ruler and slave; COM
mingliug of virtue ana vice, the sub
lime and ridiculous; sharp enough to make
a good riddle, and yet weak enough to be
caught in the most superficial stratagem;
honest enoush TO settle bis debt, and yet
outrsgeOusly Tobbing somebody else 10 get
the material TO pay it; miracle and a
scoffng; "a crOwninE glory aud burning
shame. There he stands, looming up
above other men, q mountain Of flesh; his
arms bunehed with muscle that can lift
the gate Of city; taking an attitude de-
liant of armed men and wild beasts. His
hair had never been cut, and it rolled
down ia seven great plaits over his shoul-
ders, adding to his feIcaDess and terror
The Philistines want to conquer him, and
therefore they must nd cut where the Sc.
cget Of his strength lies.
sAMsON's DELLAH.
There is a woman living in the valley Of
Sorek by the name of Delilah. They sp-
point her the agent in the case. The
Philistines are secreted in the same build
ing, and then Dalilah goes to work and
coaxes Sampson to tell what is the secret
Of his strength. "Well, >" he says, 'if you
should take seven green withes, such as
| they fAsten wild beasts with, and put
them around me, l should be perfectly
poWerless" So she binds him with the
seven green withes. Then she clap3 her
hands, and says, They cOme-the Philis-
tinesw and be walks out as though there
we're no impedimsnt. She cOaxes him
again, and says, "Now tell me the secret
of this great strength and he replies,
1T ycu shall take some ropes that
have never bsen used, and tie me with
them, should be Just like other
men, She ties him with the ropes,
clsps her hands and shouts, They come
the Philistinesw He walks out as easy
as he did befOre-not a single obstruction.
She cosxes him again, and be says, Now,
| IL yyu should take these seven long plalls
of hair and by this house loom weave them
| into 8 web, could not get away" SO the
house loom is rolled up and the shuttle
flies backward and forward, and the long
plaits Of hair are woven into web. Then
she 'claps her hands, and says, They
cOmei the Philisiinee"
He walks out "a easily Gs he did before,
dragging part OF the loom with him. But
after awhile she persuades him TO tell the
! truth. He says: "If you thOuld take a
razor, or shears, and cut off this long hair,
I should be powerless, and in the hands Of
my enemies Samson sleeps, and, THAI
she may not wake him up during the pro
cess of shearing, help is called in. You
know the BARRIERS of the east have such a
skillful way of manipulating the
head, to this very day they will
put man, wide awake, sound asleep. /
hear the blades Of The shear grinding
against each other, and see the long locks
| falling Off The shears, or razor, accom-
plishes what green withes and new ropes
/ and house loom could not do. Suddenly
| she claps her hands and says: ."The Phil
is.ines be upon thee, Sampsonw He Touses
up with a struggle, but his strength Is all
CONS! He is Ia the hands Of his enemies
hear The groan of the giant as they take
his eyes out, and then see him staggering
on in his blindness, feeling his way as he
goes on toward GAIA. The prison door IS
opened and the giant thrust in. He sits
down ard puts his hands on the mill
crank, which, with exhausting horizontal
motion, goes day after day, week after
week. month after month-work, work,
work! The CONSERVATION Of the world In
captivity, his locks shOrn, his eyes pune
tured, grinding corn in Geza. In pre-
vious sermon on this character I learned
some lessons, but another Glass OF lessons
are before Us now.
THE DELILAH OF COAXING.
Learn first how very strong people are
sometimes cOaxed into great imblcilites.
Samson had no right 20 reveal the secret OF
his strength. Delilah's first attempt to
find out is a failure. He says: Green
withes will bind me, " but it was failure.
Then he says: "a new rope will hold me, "
but that also was faillre. Then he says
Weave my locks into a web and that will
bind me-" yet that also was failure
But at last you see how she cOaxed it out
of him. Unimportant actions III life that
involve no moral principle may without
injury be subjected 10 ardent pereuasions,
/ hut as soon as you have come to the line
that seperatss wright from wrong, no in
ducement or Establishment ought to make
YOU step over it, Suppose man has
been brought up in Christian household
and taught sscredly to observe the Sab
bath. Sunday comes; you want fresh ait.
Temptation says, ''S1nday is just like
other days; now don't be bigoted; we will
ride forth among the works Of God; the
whole earth is his temple; We will not 20
into any dissipations; come, now, ! have
the carriage engaged and we shall be back
soon enough TO 20 TO church in the even
inc: don't yield to Puritanic notions; you
vii bs worse for a ride in the country; the
bloseoms are out and they say everything
is looking glorious" "Well, I will go
N nIeage ven. " is the response. And out
tbev o, over the street, conscience drowned
in the clstter of the swift hoois and the
rnsh Of the resoundipg wheels. Tna'
/ tenn mDteQ ru8Q ulaJ uahN A@A AA4SAeA NA-e'sNN
ter enough TO break the green withes o.
ten thoussnd Philistine allurements, bui
he had been overcome By coaxiGg.
THE POWER OF WOMAN.
Again. this narrative teaches us th'
power of an iu.dispOsed woman. Ia the
nortrait gallery of Bible queens we hnd
ABIGAIL and Ruth and Miriam and WASN'T
and Deborah, but in the rogues' gallery Of
a police station you find the pictures o
women as well as men. Delilah's picture
belongs to the rcgues' gallery, but she haC
more power than all Philistia armed with
sword and spear. She could carry of th'
iron gates of SamsOn's resolution as easily
as he shouldered the gates of Gsza. Int
force that killed the lion which one dal
plunged out fsrcs from the thicset utterly
3 succumbs 10 the silken net which Dslilal
weaves for the giant. He who had driven
an army in riotous retreat with the bleache'
: law bone. shifting them hip and thigf
. with great slaughter, nov falls captive a