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prrriTrrft ' ^ .,#«â- >â- â- â- â-  tmrriiwrw T y v^i i t Jl Sunday School Lesson t^« »« wi ni mf ii mm' EAMSON: STRENGTH AND WEAKNESS. Judges, Chapters 13-16. Jiidg. 14:5. 6; 15: tbe his Printed text, 11-14; IS. 15-21. Gcldea Text.â€" Be strong lit Lord, and la the strength ol mlKlit. Kph. 6:10. Tl'uE LESSON IN ITS SETTING Time.â€" The dates for Samaon's life cannot he ascertained with ab- aoluie accuracy. He lived between 1150 B.C. and 1110 B.C. Pia'^e.â€" The three principal cities of our lesson are Zorah, fourteen miles west of Jerusalem; Timaah, on the uorth-wes* border of Judah; and the Philistine city of Gaza, in the southern eud of the province of Juiiah. on the high road between Ecypt and Mesopotamia. The name 'Samson" means '"little «««" or "gunlike." During the time while Israel was in subjection to the Pbilistines the augel of the Lord appeared to the wife of Hanoah of th« tribe of Dan, living at that time in the town «f Zorah, about fourteen miles dt- roctly west of Jerusalem, a woman who up to this time had borne no child to her husband. The angel told the wife of Manoah not only that she would conceive and bear a son, but the angel also told her how the boy was to be brought up, that he should be a Nazarite unto God from the day of his birth, and that he would "begin to deliver Is- rael out of the hand of the Philis- tines." A Fearless Heart 5. Theu went Samson down, and his father and his mother, to Tim- nah, and came to the vineyards of Timnah: and, behold, a young lion roared against him. 6. And the Spirit of Jehovah came mightily upon him, and he rent him as he •would have rent a kid; and he had Bothing in his hand: but he told not his father or his mother what he had done. Of this daring deed he spoice not a word to his parents, leveaiing at once a spirit of humil- ity and lack of all boastfulness. H. Then three thousand men of Judah went down to the cleft of the rock of Etam, and said to Sam- son, Knowest thou not thit the Phiiistiues are rulers over us? what then is this that thou hast done un- to us? And he said unto them, As they did unto me, so have I done unto them. 12. And they said unto him. We are come down to bind thee, that we may deliver thee into the hand of the Philistines. And Samson said unto them. Swear un- to me, that ye will not fall upon me yourselves. 13. And they spake un- to him, saying. No; but we will bind thee fast, and deliver thee into their hand: but surely we will not kill thee. And they bound him with two new ropes, and brought him up frcm the rock. 14. When he came unto Lehi, the Philistines shouted as they met him: and the Spirit of Jehovah came mightily upon him and the ropes that were upon his arms became as flax that was burnt â- Â«lth fire, and the bands dropped from off his hands. His Judgship The judgship of Samson is sum- marised in one brief verse (15:20). This period of twenty years, at least in part, is contemporary with the judgeship of Eli. Nothing is said of Samson's councils, nor of uny improvement in goverument, nor of a general strengthening of the tribes of Israel: Samson play- ed a lone hand; whatever was done he did, and many things that could be licne only by united council and effort were never undertaken. The twentieth verse of the fifteenth c!;!ipter would have made a flne ccnciuding sentence to Samson's life; but no, this Is not the end. Judg. 16:4-22. In the valley of Sorek, near Samson's native town of Zorah, he fell in love with a wo- man by the name of Delilah. When they heard it, she was approached by the lords of the Philistines, who each offered her eleven hundred pieces of silver, an amount equal to about thirty-three hundred dollars, if she would obtain from Samson a statement revealing the secret of hi.s strength. The fact that Delilah aikiwed herself to be bribed, and constantly sought to obtain infor- mation for the Philistines, which siic knew would mean the ultimate death of Samson, is an absolute proof that Delilah did not really livo 'his man. A Vow Broken IE. .\nd she said unto him. How catirit thou say, I love thee, when thy heart Is not with me? thou habt mocked me these three times, and hast not told me wherein thy great strength lieth. 16. And It <ame to pass, when she pressed him dally with her words, and urg- ed him, that his soul was vexed un- to death. 17. And he told her all his heart, and said unto her. There hath not come » razor upon my hsad; for 1 have been a Nazarite unto God from my mother's womb: If I be shaven, then my strength will go from me, and I shall become weak, and be like any other maa. IS. And when Delilah saw. that be bad told her all his heart, she sent and called for the lords of the Phil- istines, saying. Come up Ihls once, for he hath told me all his heart. Then the lords of the Philistines came up unto her, and brought the made him sleep upon her knees; made his sleep upon her knees; and she called for a man, and shaved off the seven locks of his head; and she began to afflict him, and hU strength went from him. We are not compelled to believe that Sam- son's actual power resided In his long hair. The power which be had came from God. Cutting off his hair was a deliberate breaking of his Nazirite vow, and that at the hands of a woman with whom he should never have had association. Sam- son did not lose his power simply because his hair was shorn, but God took away his power because he allowed this woman to take from him the tokens of such power. la other words, his long hair was a mark of separation, and his yleld- ings to Delilah were » series of da- liberate violations of bis vow ot separation. 20. And she said. The Pbillitliiaa are upon thee, Samson. And be awoke out ot his sleep, and said, I will go out as at other times, and shake myself tree. But he knew not that Jehovah was departed from him. For a little time he tail- ed to realize the spiritual disaster that had come upon him. But tor a little time only. Eyeless In Gaca 21. And the Philistines laid bold on him, and put out his eyes; and they brought him down to Gaza, and bound him with tetters of brass; and he did grind in the pri- son-house. John Milton has packed a whole book into one line referring to this verse, "Eyeless in Gaza, at the mill with slaves." The saddest tragedy In all the world is a man who once knew the power of the Holy Spirit, and who now walks the streets ot some great city, or is buried In the cottage of an un- known countryside, without power, without work, without joy, without the leading of God. H^ knows a weariness that labor never gives, for he wakens every morning mora tired and weary than when he went to sleep the night before. Two Expeditions Visitmg Lonely Arctic Outposts Mi «tioo« r iâ€" , Policemen, Trad- •n, ScMDtista, Sail From McMtTMil for Three Montiie Of Voyaging In Canada's Far North. Travel books are supplanting autobiographies ia popularity in Ireland. MONTREAL. â€" Bound for the lonely outposts ot Canada's far north, two expeditions headed out of Montreal last week carrying mis- sionaries, policemen, traders, scien- tists, supplies for the Isolated peo- ple around the Arctic's rim. Three mouths of voyaging were In store for the Hudson's Bay Com- pany ship Nascople, on the com- pany's 269th trip into the north with the yearly cargo of human'and Inanimate milcellany, and Bishop Arsene TurquetU's tiny schooner Marie Therese, visiting the Roman Catholic missions in the land of ice. Lord Tweedimuir'a Son Aboard On board the Nascopia were the brides, and she carried, too, the eldest son of Canada's governor- general, now a Hudson's Bay Com- pany employee, on the way to his first assignment, and Anglican Bish- op A. T... Fleming, on the war up to visit his. far-Oung diocese. Bishop Turiiuetll did not salt north with his expedition. The vet- eran missionary of the Arctic U leaving aoon for Rome to see Pope Pius. Eskimos Taken Horns Headed north also, and glad of It, were three Eskimos ending their flrat venture Into white men's clvl- lizattoa. The two men and the seven-year-old boy, educated by the 01)late Order of Priests. at Chester- Held Inlet, had been brought down to Quebec for the recent Bucharis- tlc Congress, where the youngster wag confirmed. The pierclBg toot of the Ther- ese's farewell whistle almost tumb- led young Simon Ayarwark off the vessel's rail, but he regained enough composure to utter a de- lighted "Very hot hereâ€" glad to get back." Beside him, beaming and stroking a flowing moustache, stood his father, Jean, and Alphonse Koll- jerk, the other Eskimo. Before the voyage is over the Naacopie will have added a bride- to-be to her complement. Miss Irene i Wallacs o( Peterhead, Scottaad, cMved her proposal via radio, tfl^ j graph and cable from Hudson's 8fl|r post manager A. R. Scott at Arctic Bay, and sh« accepted same way. Thoughtful Thief How to steal and yet not b* troubled by pangs of conscienceV That was the problem of a Paaa- dtuia, California, thief â€" and thia ia how he solved it. He stolo a valuable camera from % student oC the California School of Tech- nology, pawned it for a fractioa of its value, and sent the pawa ticket to the student. His proh- lem was solved, his cunscienca Mslved. He had "shared" tha prize. Expensive Water The severe drought in Bermuda has caused an acute water short- age, and the local Parliament haa voted $2300 towards meeting tha emergency. Water supplies will have to be shipped from New York, a di»- tance of nearly 700 miles. Tha Farmers Shipping Line has al- ready started taking water ta Berumda at II a ton. Bermudans rely for their drink- ing supply on rain water whUtC they collect In tubs. i $3,500 IN 238 CASH PRIZES FIRST PRIZE $1,500 For Winning Players in ''CROSSCARDS'' CONTEST HOW TO PLAY TO WIN EXAMPLE GAME ONLY SCORE V V First, study the example game. II you will now refer to the table ot points, you will And the method ot scoring which is employed. You will note that certain points are allowed for each combination ot five cards which can be formed with the twenty-five cards appear- ing in this example game. The object is to rearrange these cards In five horizontal rows in such a way as to attain as high a score as you can based on the table ot I>olnts. Wliile the cards do not appear in red and black, you should have no doubt as to the suits. AU yon require to play the game Is a knowledge of the table ot points and a little foresight in rearranging the cards. Referring back to the example game, you will note that the score is 1320. Now to better the score, tor example, you could move the jack ot clubs from the top row to the third row for four jacks, giving you a score ot 440 for this row. Now take the sU ot clubs from the fourth row and place it in the top row, and you have a run of all clubs to the ten. You lose five points In this row by taking away the jack, but you gain 175 points in the third row for a total of 1490, a nice Increase over 1320. Simple, isn't it? NOW SEE HOW MUCH BETTER YOU CAN DO. TABLE OF POINTS (COPYRIGHTED) To th« I 10 or To the To the To the Under. Jack. Queea. Kine. HEABTS: Run o( Five Conaecotivo Hearts ..., 480 48S 400 486 HB&BTS: Any Fiva Hearts, Not Consecntlvo 35e 355 SCO 365 DIAMONDS; Kun ol Five Consecutive Diamonds 476 480 486 4iie UIAHONDS: Any Five Diamonds, Not Consecutive SM SSS 34« S4S CLUBS: Bun of Five Consecutive Clnbs 470 475 480 486 OLVBS: Any Five CInbs, Not Consecntive SM 316 380 3t6 .SPADSS : Sun ot Five Consecutive Spades 465 470 ni 480 SFADKS : Any Five Spades, Not Consecutive WO MS SOO 305 BUN of Kiv« Consecntive Cards of Two or More Mixed Suits . . 430 425 480 436 FOUB CARDS of same Numerical Value and One Odd Card â€" 140. Add 10 Mint* U Odd Card is II or Hisher. THBBG CARDS of Same Numerical Vnlue and One Fmic^JliS only. TBBEK CARDS of Same Numerical Value and Two Odd Cardsâ€" 220. Add 10 Folnto for Bach Odd Card U 10 or Hiclier. TWO FAHtS and One Odd Cardâ€" 150. Add 10 Points U Odd Card is 10 or Hi(her. ONB PAIR and Three Odd Cardsâ€" 10«. Add 10 Points for Each Odd Card of 10 or Hlcbcr. fii'iPS^ C.\BDS-No Value Kxcept When Bew Includes Cards of U ec Hlfher. t> Which Bvent Add 10 Points for Baeh Card of 10 or Hichec. NOTE: Thm Act U Low in ConttcuUvm Runt and at an Odd Card. It Im tht GaaM*s Lsisslt Cmrd no Card Can ha Uamd Mora than Oneo in a Ctunm. All back games published to date will be repuDlished in The Globe and Mail of next Satur- day, July 30, and Monday, August I. Order your copy In advance from your carrier boy or dealer, or use the coupon below: To rA« G/o5e <mk/ Matt Circulation Depf., Toronto, CcmadQ Please send me by mail The Globe and Mail for one monHi, lor which I enclose 75c. It is understood that my -first copy will con- tain all back games and official answer forms published to date in The Globe and Mail's "Crosscards" Contest. EXPLANATION OF POINTS FIRST â€" ^ C^naecutivm run mean* /ic* card* in n«m«r<cal ordte. For cjramp/«. Ac*, 2, 3, 4, Bt •r 9, to. Jack, Qucam, King, or 7, 8, 9, tO, Jack, «tc. it wilt be n^tad by the mchmdulm •I points that tha vala«c vary according to the Muitm. im forming m conaecatioo run tho Ace ot tuny Matt u aiway* low and counts am ONE (1} only, SECOND â€" Four card» of thm Mama nuntmricat vatmc moanm a combination each a« /our Acms, four S'm, fottr Qutons, etc. The soma apptiee where roforence is made to Three Cardm oi the »ame numerical value. THiRD â€" Two poire, for exampie, nteane: Two 0*s and two We, ate, FOURTH â€" On* pmir, for example, mean*: Two Jacha or two tO'm, etc. FiFTH â€" A rum of "Mixed Suite** mean* wh«m ftoo or mor« auitm compri*e a run. 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