The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1915-01-27

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.er and she shares shar erfsnce W1t
the father ". 81. AB the mother of q
;Nazarite she must keep herself from
all things rrelean W. "a; II Cor 6..s1
III y; even as Mary, the mother Of
Jesus (Luke 1881 8. The experience OF
the sacrifice, the worship of Manoah
and his wife and the; fact Of SAM.
.son's birth comple etesl the record Sof.
chapter 10. Man6ah could not worship
the angel but could show him hospi;
,tality. Verse 18 (R.. y. j. seems TO tndi-
cate that this was another premaat;;
Ifestation of our Lord Jesus, .gs3
u. samuePs5 Power. Every race has
its superman, and usually It IS one sof:
physical Sstrengt til That Samson had
mo: physical eVidence 1ff 9his tperiors
strength is evident from the fact that
Delilah asked to. know ,his secret: Nor
was his strength In his haiF, else there
was no need that the Spirit Of
Jehovah = should come upon him. The:
secret Of his power is Indicated in
1925; ;sg The word move. suggests to
play upon 3 harp, as il Samson = heart
was open To- God as q harpFis open to
human touch Samson power Was
the result .of d faith that was open
TO the infinite storehouse of the dis
vine dynamic, Such spiritual power
lis within the reach OF every man
Samson sunny, was full of iaaEh.
ter; not the comic, but the Joyous. He
did the big things God gave him t1 Sd0s
and was filed with gladnesa. But;
Samson came under the spell ef an
evil woman and all OF this true laugh
ter and glad joyousness LETT his sou1;I
Chapter 13, verse rs, illustrates the
amounting Of the Holy Spirit for service
ass5perhaps disting guished from the.
same Spirit for holiness. The laughter
heard In the haunts Of sin has lots ifsSS
buoyancy, is forced, 4 Is different U.s.
that Of men whose hearts are unclean.
Ill. samson,s ylmpurIty. A wolnan
can make or mar the man with whom
she associates. As e ,Nazarite, Samson
was dedicated unto God, must not sai2'
low q razor to touch his head. was not,
to touch anything unclean. nor drink
intoxicating liquor This VOW was
usually fora short period Samuel and;
John the Baptizer are other Nazat
rites recorded In Scripture. and afe,
said TO have BEEN such from birth:
(3:14; 1917; Luke u: :16). AsamsoI,ss q
strength burned. out when he Jay his
head In q :hariot' s lap. and the Laughter,
went out Of his soul 1T was that
which broke the contact between him
and God Samson's birth In q cody:
home, his knowlege Of his relation to
God and the experience Of God d's power,
did not keep him from an ignchIe
failure. !. He. left the atmosph phere sof
Gods spirit for that Of sin PROV. 4:
23). i.. sf, ~! 4. 81 s5s h
w. Samson,s imprisonment. We find
him after his excesses grinding in the
Philistine prison, where he perhaps
overheard praises being sung to, Dagon
who had overthrown Jehovah's Judge.
It is never safe to play with 'tempta,
tion though conscious OF our own
strength; then 1t is we are most apt
to fall Is Cor, 1O:12). One act and
the gay hero is grinding in g prison;
house. Directly a man goes into Inn
purity, whether In act or thought, he
loses the power that formerly moved
men or worked wonders. Year after!
year Samson plodded his round OF en-:
forced toll, a type Of the force and:
power of intemperance and other Inn.
pure habits. During these years he
doubtless put his hand upon his head
and said, my hair is growing again."
and 1t gave him courage to believe
that God would yet give him another,
chance. -. !. .S..;5 & ,,.5,,e
Finally, when their hearts wer.
merry" (16:25). he is brought out to
make sport. During one of his resting
periods he said to a boy near by, Let
me feel Of the two pillars" those upon
which the main walls rested and
WulCu WSlS WlIulu O lCdIA.l
Then 1t was that he was able to grip
the mysterious power of the unseen
(16:30). Was Samson a suicide? No!
He accepted death as the inevitable
consequence Of his act of duty (See
Heb. 1892. as =.
The growth of his hair was only q
token of that conservation which he
had surrendered when he failed to
Withstand the wiles of Delilah. 4
The Temperance Teaching OF this
lesson is all too plain. It must begin
in the home and continue throughout
all of life AS we have scattered in.
formation throughout our land We
have seen the work Of temperance ad
vancing nightly. Samson's exploit
with the lion is temperance sermon
in parable (14:5, 6; Prov. 20:D. The
business of the temperance forces is
to slay the lion. We are also to cal
"honey out of the rock" to gain vic
tories, within and without, and, like
Samson, we can give honey to others
To have a part in helping to redeem
lost world requires that we keep clean