The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-05-06
World viii Aluays Judge One
By His Companions, His Deeds,
And Big SerOices He Performs
Character of Samson Reveals Weaknesses Which Lead to
Ruin and Shame, Says Rev. W. A. Sunday IN Sermon
Pointing Out the Pitfalls of Life Well the Straight
Path Leading to Glory.

Down at Timnath he fell in love
with a Philistine girl. That was an
other cause Of his downfall, not be-
cause he fell in love with girl, but
he fell in love with the wrong girl
and the wrong kind of one. Love is
a divinely planted instinct, but he fell
in love with the wrong one, and he
wanted that girl, and when his par
ents tried to reason with him, he put
his hands over his heart and he said,
"Get her, for she pleaseth me well"
You might as well try to reason
with a prairie fire or with bull dog
with bone as to reason with young
man in love, and yet when young
man seeks wife, he steps on mighty
holy ground. The greatest bliss that
falls from heaven blesses the man
who brings pure love to meet equally
pure love at the marriage altar.
There are millions and millions of
young men whose veal or whose woe
is going to be sealed by the marriage
vow. A good woman with an I'M
worthy husband is to be pitied, and
a good man with an unworthy wife is
to be pitied. The man who marries
good wife doesn't have to work half
as hard to get to heaven as the fell
low who marries a bad one does to
keep out of hell.
Blinds Samson
To Reason.
And the pretty face of that Philis-
tine girl made him blind to the voice
of reason, and the Philistines would
never have put out his eyes if he
hadn't been a fool and put them out
himself first
So the devil wouldn't land lot of
people if they hadn't been fools and
made the mistake of listening to him.
Samson is wearing out shoe leath-
, er counting this girl and on one Of
his trips down there, a lion came
out and roared against him without
| the slightest suspicion that he was
committing suicide when he did it.
/ When he saw Samson, no doubt he
( said, HERE'S my nice little man for
| a breakfast" and he began to lick
| his chops like a green goods man
when he sees rube, but he soon
found out that he had no more busi-
| ness there than a preacher has in a
convention of brewers and distillers.
So he killed that lion and tossed
! his carcass to one side. He didn't
/ even stop to skin it.
Circumstantial evidence is mighty
strong that he wore out a good many
pairs of sandals journeying back and
forth before he could get her consent
! to the wedding, because the carcass
! of that lion had dried sufficiently to
enable the bees to turn it into hive
and fill it with honey before she said
Yes" to his proposition
Wait a minute. His moral train
! ing seems to have been neglected
] because he got drunk, and fell to
gambling on his wedding day. Amidst
the hilarity he propounded riddle
of his own manufacture, suggested
to him by the carcass of that lion
and the bees making hive out of it
:. and he bet thirty changes of rain
ent against the field that nobody
could guess his riddle during the
seven days Of festivities.
Wife Prizes Secret
From Husband.
!, The young fellows went to his
wife and they bribed her to worm the
answer from Samson, which / an
sorry to say she did and proved hel
treachery, and now it was up tt
Samson to produce the dry goods tt
pay the bet.
They had no clothing stores dowr
there at Timnath upon which ht
, could make a raid, SO he went owe
! to a town named Ascalon and hi
knocked thirty of the young blades
over the head, he stripped them o
their raiment, he brought thei
clothes back and paid his debt.
| He found the air was gettin,
: pretty frosty, so he thought he would
y play good politics and go home. H,
:. hadn't been down home long unit
, he begun to pine for his wife, so h
! hrayed the dangers of the Philistine
and the enemies he had made, to e
, back and see his wife, but instead O
finding that she had put on widow
!, weeds and mourned his long absenc
|, as an indication that he was dead, sh
got tired of waiting for his return
@ and went out and married anothe
= fellow.
o This act so wrought upon the ser
a sitive nature of Samson that he wen
!, out and caught three hundred foxes
!, by which you can see he was goin
: some, and he tied them together
. two by two by their tails, and he fas
!, ened a fire brand in between. The
|, he turned the whole menagerie loos
= loose in the wheat fields of the Phi
: istines and some energetic white-caJ
. ping was done there, because the
! burned his wife's father and his wifi,
!. and when they got through there wa
o no doubt that Samson was widower
8. Keeps Up His
q Spirit OF Revenge.
q But wait minute. They weren
= well acquainted with Samson if the
= thought that he would let the matte
rest there. oh, his blood was up t
- fever heat. He rolled up his sleeve