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THE SUIIDM SCHOOL, lesson IX. Fourth Quarter, For Dec. 1, 1907. THE -INTERNATIONAL SERIES. Text of the Lesson, Jucig. xvl, 21.31. Memory Verses, 28-30 Golden Text, Eph. vi, 10 Commentary Prepared by Rev. O. M. Steams. COopyright, 1907, by American fnm Anociatlon.' One of God's cbosem men, a Nuzarlte nd the strongest of men physically, fcrought to a prison house, grinding Corn, and afterward brought to a pub lic gathering of many thousands to make sport for them as they worshiped their god, made blind physically by bis spiritually blinded enemies, this la truly a sad sight. Yet It Is written for our benefit that we may not thus bring reproach upon our God nor Brieve His Holy Spirit As we saw last week and In previous lessons and na the whole Bible teaches, God Is seek ing for men who will walk continuous ly with Him, follow Him fully and In Whom He can be magnified. In Heb. xL 32, we find Gideon, Barak, Samson and Jephtha mentioned with David and Samuel as men of faith, nd in the long list of worthies in that chapter the distinguishing feature of each is faith in God. Even In Sain ton's dying hour we find him In verse -28 of our lesson praying the prayer of faith and receiving an immediate an swer. We must glance at the whole tory of Samson (chapters xill to xvi Inclusive), and in chapter xill we note the visit of the Lord to Manoah and Ills wife, the same one who apprred to Gideon and Joshua, who talked face to face with Moses, appeared to Abra ham, Isaac and Jacob and clothed Adam and Eve with coats of skins In Eden, (whose goings forth have been trom the days of eternity (Mic. t, 2, margin)., He is called in the present tory an angel twelve times, a man live times and God once (verse 22). When Manoah asked for His name He said, "It is wonderful" (xill, 18, margin), making us think of Isa lx, 6, 7. As; He ascended In the flame of Manoah's sac rifice it Is said that He did wondrously, nd Manoah and his wife looked on xlll, 10). It was even so at the exodus, the dividing of the Red sea and the Jordan, the overthrow of Jericho, and long afterward In the days of His so journ upon earth wfcen ta the trsece of the disciples He wrought so many miracles. He Is the same yesterday, today and forever. In chapters xiv and xv the power of God is seen In Samson in his slaying a lion, in his killing 1,000 men with the Jawbone of an ass, in his carrying off the city gates and walking away with the weaver's beam fastened to his oefcs, etc. God's care of him is seen 51a His bringing water from the dry one for him when he was thirsty and In other ways. He could not have been b great man physically, else people Would not have wondered wherein his great strength lay, but he was a Kaza rite (xiil, r), for an explanation of Which ure Num. vl, but lie was a Nnzu rlto whose separation bad been defiled nnd his days lost (Num. vl, 12). One part of the chastening for this was to hiive tlie head, and this his enemies lid for him. , In vorSo 22 of onr lesson we read that the hair of his head began to prow again, ami in this we see his JCaznrltosli.'p returning in a measure. Tiut, oh, the lost days and the dishonor to God: And here we must touch upon something niix-t practical and Kenrch iu;;, briefly hinted at in last week's temperance lesson. At the judgment oat of Christ all that has been of self in our live will be seen to bo only wood, hay und stnbble, fit to bo burned to onr loss. A true child of God cannot be lost, but his life or part of it may be lost. All Samson's wandering from God by contact with sinful people was lost time, and, not only so, it was God dishonoring time. All the years that Israel was In the hands of her ene mtes, overcome by them because of !her sin, during the days of these Judges was time not counted by God, and this ' explains one of the seeming discrep ancies of Scripture. In I Kings, vl, 1, we read that from the exodus to the (fourth year of Solomon was 480 years, "While in Acts xill, 18-22, it is easily Been to be 573 years (4045040403), discrepancy of - ninety-three years. How interesting it is that we find just these years lost by Israel ns a nation 'While oppressed by their enemies! The tecord of the years of their oppressions Is in Hi, 8, 14; Iv, 3; vl, 1; xill, 1, and; the figures are 8182074033. which, subtracted from B73i gives 4S0, mn'.clng perfect agreement in the two . accounts. There is another oppression of eighteen years mentioned In Judg. x, 8, but it was only partial and con fined to the east of Jordan. May the Lord deliver us from all Delllahs and from wasting or misusing nis time or talents or opportunities! Because of, Samson's sin see the Philistines rejoicing in their idol Da- gon and worshiping it. That is the devil, for all Idol worship is of the devil (I Cor. x, 20). When children of j God conform to this world they give great occasion to the enemy to bias- j (heme. " . How humiliating to see such a one ! s Samson making sport for the rhllis- t tines, yet there are today professing ' .Christians so blinded that they think , It all right to make sport for or arouse j the world'3 people and, in fact, often i do It to obtain money for what they call the Lord's work! If we are true Nazarltcs we will desire that God may te glorified in us, whether by life or death (Phil. 1, 20), but we will also seek , to keep ourselves unspotted from the , world (Jaa. i. 27). I A Singular Duel. Orlg-inal. Some years ago when I was in New Orleans In order to kill time I dropped Into a fencing academy opposite the hotel where I stopped. I am fond of all the arts of self defense and wonld sit by the hour during the afternoon and evening watching the fencing mas ter give instruction. At the end of each lesson be would send bis pupil's foil spinning high in the air, thus In timating that the lesson was finished. . One evening, while in his academy, as I was about leaving he asked me If I would like to see a spirited con test with the foils between two ex perts. When I said I would he told me to be on band at 7 In the morning, giving as a reason for the early hour that the contestants did not. care to fence before a crowd. When I en tercd the hall a little before the hour appointed I saw the principals emerge from a dressing room attired In fenc ing costume and each wearing a wire mask. The fencing master turned to me and said: "In contests between strong men sometimes the button will be broken off one of the foils. I wish you to look at these weapons that you may be a witness that they are in good condi tion at the start." I examined the foils and found them perfect. He banded them to the prin cipals, and the contest began. I confess I was dlsappolned. Neither seemed to take much Interest In the struggle, and it was an indifferent performance. I wondered why I had been Invited to witness it. Meanwhile the fencing master went to another part of the room, where suddenly be dropped something which made a clatter, and I turned my eyes in his direction. When I turned them back to the fencers I saw that they bad suspended the con test. One of them was standing In position; the other was just stepping into position. Somehow I got the idea that they had both stepped away from their places. When the fencing recommenced each man threw himself into his work as if his life depended upon his efforts. Each was supremely careful of his guard and each watchful for some opening through which he might pierce his ad versary. It was not long before I saw blood oozing from the sword arm of one of the fencers. I looked at the fencing master, supposing be would call a halt. Certainly, as he had fear ed, a button had been broken off a toll. He could not but see the blood, but he paid no attention to It Presently more blood spurted, this time from the shoul der of the other fencer, and the two were bleeding profusely. Whatever bad been the Intent at the beginning, I was sure that now the men were fighting for their lives. They were both skilled with the foil, and the exhibition,, as promised, had become one of great brilliancy. Presently he who wus wounded in the shoulder re ceived another wound in the side. This time the fencing master started to in terfere, but the wounded man waved him away, nud the fighting went on. I concentrated my vision to discover the condition of the foils. Had both buttons been broken? Impossible! There was some trickery, some method of making the weapons effective. The., I remembered the noise made by the fencing master just before the change had come In the charucter of the con test, and It suddenly dawned upon me that that movement was a device to draw my attention while tbe foils were changed. While they were crossed and for n moment at rest I could see that there .was no button on either, but a sharp point. It looked as If the nffair were a veritable duel. I now began to notice the personnel of the contestants. They both appear ed to be gentlemen. One was tall and slender, with fair hair and eyes; the other short and thick and very dark, the latter evidently ten years older than the former. But the short man was the better fencer, besides being wiry, and he was evidently tiring the other out. I was looking for him at any moment to finish his adversary when suddenly the door flew open and a young woman, evidently a lady of high degree, rushed In and up to the fencers, where she stood glaring at the short brunette, then turning a re proachful glance on bis younger ad versary. "Paul," she gasped, "you're a fooll And as for' you, Mr. Le Gro, there la no rc:ison whatever for you to have any contest with any man about me. You thought, you had outwitted me and the police in bringing your victim to a fencing academy. M. Itenard," to the fencing master, "I am astonished that under cover of teaching your art you should permit your placo to be used for murder! Yes, murder! This man Le Gro, I am told, was formerly .one of the best fencers In Paris. Should I reveal this outrage you would be obliged to leave the city. Geitlemen, give mo your weapons.," They were handed to her. She ex amined their points and threw them on the floor. Then, putting her arm through his whom she called Paul, she walked away with him. I tried hard to elicit an explanation, but signally failed. The nftair never leaked out. My own inference was that an un successful rival desired to talio re venge ufou- n successful one. Ho had planned the ollalr to tnke place la a fencing academy partly to escape the police, but rather to make the. affair appear as an ordinary trial of skill, rerhaprf after he had killed his rival the story was to have licen given out that the burton on bis foil had been broken off and an accident had result ed. I wh to be called In to lie a wit ness that they .fenced with foils. ELLSWORTH EMERSON. SCOTSMEN IN KILTS. i ' That Is One Sight You Will Not 8ee s In Edinburgh. A writer of the London Tatler has been in Edinburgh and reports as fol lows: There is one thing that always disappoints the visitor to Edinburgh, and that Is a complete absence of kilts, or, rather, the absence of Scotsmen in kilts. Tf you meet a man wearing a kilt In the streets of the Queen City of the Forth it will be a grave mistake to suppose that he Is the laird of Gor rouck or some other equally famous highland chieftain. He Is nothing of the sort. As a matter of fact, his namo Is Hodgklns, and he is employed dur ing eleven months of the year licking up envelopes for a firm on the shady side of Lothbury avenue, London, E. C. Another mistake which strangers are apt to make lies lit supposing that tHe good people of Scotland talk Scotch. 1 shall never forget my surprise on the 'occasion of my first visit to Edinburgh, when a policeman at the corner of Frederic street, to whom I remarked pleasantly that it was "braw, brlent nlcht the nlcht, whateffer," told me to push off and stop asking him conun drums. Scotsmen do not as a rule talk at all. They possess the gift of silence to a really remarkable degree. I know a gillie named Donald, who lives in Perthshire, In whose society I have sometimes spent whole days stalking the elusive stag without his ever vouchsafing a single remark of any kind. I remonstrated with him once, pointing out that such silence as bis almost amounted to taciturnity. He promised to try and cultivate a certain measure of garrulity, and after we had walked across the heather for five hours, during which time I could see that his brain was working feverishly, he suddenly turned to me and exclaim ed, "Von's a fearfu earthquake they had in Jamaica!" after which striking effort be relapsed once more Into his habitual attitude of respectful silence. "OLD GLORY." The Way This Name For the Stars and 8tripss Originated. , The term "Old Glory." used to desig nate the flag of our country, Is a favor ite, and the expression is a very happy one. It is said by those who claim to be well Informed that the name originat ed with Willlum Driver, captain of the bark Charles Doggett. This statement appears in a history of the Driver family, and from this we find the fol lowing facts: Driver was a successful deep sea sailor and was at the time making bis vessel ready for a voyage to the south ern Pacific. In 1831, just as the brig was about to set sail, a young man at the bead of a party of the captain's friends saluted Driver on the deck of the Doggett and presented to him a handsome American flag 19 by 33 feet in size. The banner was done up in stops, and when it went aloft and was flung to the breeze Captain Driver, says the tradition, then and there numed it "Old Glory." The flag was carried Jo the south seas and ever aft erward treasured by Its owner. Driver removed to Nashvlile, Trim., In 1SC7 and there died in ISSli. Before the outbreak of hostilities between the north nud south Old Glory flew daily from a ludow In the captain's Nash ville house, but when the rumors of war became facts it was carefully se creted. When the war broke out the precious flag was quilted into an innocent look ing comfortable and used ou the cap tain's bed until Feb. 27, lSfi2,Avhen tlio Sixth Ohio marched into Nashville. 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