My son, keep your father’s commandment, and forsake not your mother’s teaching. Proverbs 6:20, R.S.V. What the parents are, that, to a great extent, the children will be. The physical conditions of the parents, their dispositions and appetites, their mental
God’s Property
I have lent him to the Lord. 1 Samuel 1:28. From Shiloh, Hannah quietly returned to her home at Ramah, leaving the child Samuel to be trained for service in the house of God, under the instruction of the high
She Kept Her Promise
I will give him unto the Lord all the days of his life. 1 Samuel 1:11. Elkanah, a Levite of Mount Ephraim, was a man of wealth and influence, and one who loved and feared the Lord. His wife, Hannah,
God Remembered
And Samson called unto the Lord, and said, O Lord God, Remember me. Judges 16:28 In suffering and humiliation, a sport for the Philistines, Samson learned more of his own weakness than he had ever known before; and his afflictions
A Sure Crop
My son, if sinners entice thee, consent thou not. Proverbs 1:10. Samson in his peril had the same source of strength as had Joseph. He could choose the right or the wrong as he pleased. But instead of taking hold
This is the Secret
And he wist not that the Lord was departed from him. Judges 16:20. Day by day Delilah urged him, until “his soul was vexed unto death;” yet a subtle power kept him by her side. Overcome at last, Samson made
What’s the Secret?
And Delilah said to Samson, Tell me, I pray thee, wherein thy great strength lieth. Judges 16:6. The Israelites made Samson judge, and he ruled Israel for twenty years. But one wrong step prepares the way for another…. He continued