The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1903-12-10

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oppressed by the Philistines. the Lord II
times endowed him with miraculous
strength, as he did Solomon in after years
with divine wisdom" And though "his
Strengths said to have gone from him, z
when shaver Of his locks, we are not
to suppose that his power was in his hair,
but having broken his vow as a
Nazarlte, he lost the favor of God. Sam
son killed the lions in the way to Timnah,
where he married his first wife vii.
lage or the Phlistines, now in ruins,
about five miles southwest Zorah. Ii
was here, during his first wedding festival,
that ne put his riddle to the Philistnes,
(Jud:: I4-I4) and somewhere to the west
OF THIS are corn or wheat fields of the
PhlllstlneS he DESTROYED with his three
hundred foxes, the Gakal of Syria is very
like our American red fox, and abound in
great numbers. Near here is the hill of
Lehi, the jawbone so called from its
peculiar shape, where Samson with the
JaWDone OF an ass slew thousand Philis-
tines. It is said to be barren, rocky ridge
in shape resembling a jawbone. about mid
way between Jarmuth and Tinmah, and
is still called by the natives "Kheishun,' =
which signifies nose or cheekbone.
And the traditional fountain that
springs, not from the jaWbone with which
Samson slew the Philistines, but from
the hill of Lehi is still pointed out in a
cleft of the rocky ridge.
NOT great ways from this is the val
ley OF Elah, the place where David slew
the great Philistine champion, though a
beardless boy, without armour, he took his
sling and in the name of God of armies.
ne overcome the mighty Phiistines and
stands as type of Jesus of Nazareth
VINO met Apolyan, Satan, Devil, alone in
wilderness and put him to flight, and
became our helper in all tine temptations of
life.
Now, in conclusion, ask, who can
contemplate all these thing s and not
admire the wisdom and providence of our
god in all his dealings with the sons and
daughters of men?
., how like to look for the footprints
OF Jehovah, in the broken columns. dilap-
idated cities shattered castles and mute
walls of those far back homes of Gods
people, and the hands of their enemies.
These things prove the divine authen-
ITCHY Of Gods word. They are the
silen- witnesses of Gods faithfuness to
his promise and his truths, and the same
God who was the friend of Abraham,
Isaac and Jacob, and who led and guided
the children of Israel through the desert.
is the same God of today, for ne is ''from
everlasting to everlasting" the same
yesterday and forever.
Every foot of Palestine is made sacred BY
its halloWed association with Gods people.
But the Jews are now cut off from their
holy delights, as strangers they are
scattered all over the world. Their cities
are all broken up. their country in the
hands of the despostic Turks, their fields
and gardens have gone back to branches
and briars In place of music and 10Y
now the owl and the bat are heard and seen.
In place of the lovely Temple of Solomon
croWning Moriah the Mosque of Omar
the temple of Mohamedism is now to be
seen there, and the holy city is in the
hands OF the heathens and will STAY there
TIL Gods time comes for the change. for
it IS written in Gods word that the holy
city shall be trodden by the Gentiles
until the time of the Gentiles are fulfilled, y
then God will remember his anointed peo-
pie again.