. Delightful stories; or, Home talks out of the Wonderful . distress on account of theirsurrounding enemies, especially of the Philistines, who lived on theseacoast to the southeast of Canaan. God evidently thought that aman of prodigious strength and courage would do them good as aleader, so He raised up this matchless man, whose strength is ascribeddirectly to Gods power. It is said in Judges xiii, 25, that at timesthe Spirit of the Lord began to move him. Move him how ? asked Carrie. Move him to do great and wonderful deeds, but what thev wereis not told us. I Why are not all his doi
. Delightful stories; or, Home talks out of the Wonderful . distress on account of theirsurrounding enemies, especially of the Philistines, who lived on theseacoast to the southeast of Canaan. God evidently thought that aman of prodigious strength and courage would do them good as aleader, so He raised up this matchless man, whose strength is ascribeddirectly to Gods power. It is said in Judges xiii, 25, that at timesthe Spirit of the Lord began to move him. Move him how ? asked Carrie. Move him to do great and wonderful deeds, but what thev wereis not told us. I Why are not all his doings told us, Grandpa? inquired Charley. It seems to me we ought to have a whole book on Samson. That might be more interesting than profitable, answered Mary. There are enough dime novels, without trying to turn Bible STRENGTH TURNED TO WEAKNESS. 215 heroes into their heroes. But, Grandpa, please tell us what we doknow about Samson, for he was a tremendous man. Yes, do, shouted Charley. Please go on. Very willingly, answered Grandpa, for God raised him up to do. He found a new jaw-bone of an ass and put forth his hand and took it, and slew a thousand men therewith.—Judges xv, 15. u special work. His first great act of which we know occurred when,with his father and mother, he was going to claim his bride at Tim-nath, a city of the Philistines. He was walking apart from his parentswhen a young lion met him. He had no weapon with him, but heseized the brute and tore it to pieces as though it had been a kid. 216 GRANDPA GOODWINS STORIES. How could he, Grandpa ? exclaimed Carrie. Why, lions areso bier and so strong, But how strong was Samson ? He may have been stronger thanthe strongest lion. And then the Bible says it was a young lion, whichmay mean that it was not an immense, full-grown fellow; but big orlittle, it was a wonderful thing for Samson to kill it as he did. It was something for him to talk about, wasnt it? exclaimedCharley, moving his hands as if to tear some imagin
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