Blue-grass blade. [volume] (Lexington, Ky.) 188?-19??, 1902-12-21
SAMSON
SOME THOUGHTS ON THE LIFE
AND DOINGS OF THAT WE'LL
KNOWN BIBLE CHAR
ACTER.


Methuselah will not down, and he
seems to have chosen the columns OF
Blue Grass Blade in which to exploit
himself To find out the exact age
of Methuselah seems to be burning
desire with some people. AS for my
self | recognize the gravity of this
not know the exact age of Enoch' s
son. Editor Moore admits that he will
not be dead sure about it. The Bible
cannot square itself on its own state
ments, regarding him, and no one
knows for sure the day of his birth
or that lie ever had a birth But sup
pose in the resurrection of religious
relics the family Bible of EnocL
should come to light, giving the exact
date of Methuselah's birth, that would
settle the controversy, | never could
| tell why Methuselah is such prom
inent Bible character. The Book
makes no record of anything he ever
| did except to be born and die, and
either one of these ordeals seems tC
require small effort on the part OF
| the individual concerned.
III MethuSelah ever did anything
to immortalize himself Holy Writ
does not record it. He is only famous
because he lived to very old age
and any one can do that, if they live
long, and that without trying. The
easiest thing for human beings to dc
in this life is to grow old. If Methu
selah had lived 969 years, and then
faced about and grown young again
he would have laid all the Bible mir
acle workers in the shade. Why!
Methuselah is celebrity cannot
hold candlelight to Samson.
Samson did a lot of things to 9th
| er people, and some of the people
did lot of things to Samson.
The history of this man in the
Bible discounts anything told by
Swedenburg, Baron Murchausen, Ara
bian Knights, Mother Goose, or Jules
Verne. Samson had semimiraculous
birth in which an angel. part man
part. The angel finally disappeared
stones ON which Samson's father
was roasting meat for God.
During Samson's youth he was de
MED the use of razor, and early
in life he married a Philistine girl.
Once, while on counting eXpedit
ion he was attacked by lion, Sam
son tore the lion asunder with great
ease.
Afterward he came upon the carcass
Of this lion and found it inhabited
| by a swarm of bees, and he helped
himself to the honey, and the bees
didn't do thing to him. Samson s
wife found out he was not saint,
and she left his bed and board and
went back to her parents.
This reused Samson's anger, and, as
his wife was a Philistine, he deter
mined to get even with the Philis-
tines There are many men in this
day that are playing the Samson role
along this line They love, honor,
and cherish their wives i'll such a
manner that their wives to escape
their cruelty, or loss of their lives,
take refuge with their parents, and
the vengeance of the modern Samson
lis turned against the family of the
wife. This is how the Bible Sam
son paid his respects to the relatives
and friends of the wife of his bosom.
He caught three hundred foxes, and
Arranging them in groups of two, tied
their tails together, placed tirebrands
between each pair of tails, and turn
ed them loose in the grain fields OF
the Philistines that belonged to his
family and her tribe, and destroyed
their entire harvest.
Men who are suing their wives for
divorce on plea of abandonment
can get some valuable hints about
how to get even with their wives, and
their families by reading the Bible
story of Samson, given by Divine in
spIration, for our guidance and III
struction.
Samson had many episodes and ad
ventures i'll us eventful life. Per
haps the less said about the one with
the lady of GAIA the better. This
willy lady enticed Samson into the
city which was surrounded by the
Phllistines who had tried to capture
him to pay him back for the damage
he had done them with the incendiary
foxes, but he got out of their way and
carried the gates of the city, posts
and all to the top of mountain.
Up to this time Samson was only
making ready for the great deeds
| he performed later.
1t seems that Samson never fell
that he could get even with his wife'S
people the Philstines He, single
handed fought a battle with a large
army of the Philistines. His only
weapon was the jaw bone OF an ass
and the Book says he slew thousands
of his enemies. Think of the fierce
ness of that combat. OF course thu
| Philistines did not stand still and lie
| Samson kill them, so he must have
run hundreds of miles before he go
his last victim. | don't know wheth
err it was winter or Summer whel
this battle took place, but | shoul'
think he was both hot and tired whel
he got through the job, yet the Bibl
don't say a word about that but
says he called for water, and Co
made hole in the ASS jcwbone h