...schoolmaster's rod, the means of punishment and improvement. Like the dead carcass of Samson's lion, " out of the eater came forth meat, and out of the strong came forth sweetness." Why do our hearts throb as we read the war-song, or hear the war-trumpet ? Why do we follow with breathless...

...bees had made a hive of it. He therefore proposed this riddle to thirty youths at his bridal feast : Out of the eater came forth meat, and out of the strong came forth sweetness. 6. The answer to the riddle was betrayed to the young men by the wife of Samson, to whom he had imparted...

...and thirty change of garments." On being requested to put forth the riddle, he announced it thus : " Out of the eater came forth meat, and out of the strong came forth sweetness." Three days passed away, and no one was yet able to furnish the solution. The means which were taken...

...strengthened by the repast. What a power there is in such a soul ! Truly he might say with Sampson of old, "Out of the eater came forth meat, and out of the strong came forth sweetness." There he lay, under that log, for three days ; patient and surgeon, sick man, hunter, cook, and nurse,...

...propounded a riddle to his companions ; that is, a difficult and obscure sentence for them to solve—" Out of the eater came forth meat, and out of the strong came forth sweetness." And they could not expound the riddle, for it was difficult; but this is not the only riddle that the Bible...

...fact for future use. Accordingly, to his "thirty companions," at his nuptials, he proposed the riddle, "Out of the eater came forth meat, and out of the strong came forth sweetness," laying a wager with them, that it would foil their ingenuity. Finding themselves perplexed for the...

...Saul, when he cut off the skirt of his garment. It is to me like Samson's lion, of which it is written, "Out of the eater, came forth meat, and out of the strong, came forth sweetness." " Death," says a wise man, " is a great teacher." When he extinguishes the sun and the moon from our...

...sheets ; and, if they could not guess it, they were to forfeit, the same to him. The riddle was ; " Out of the eater came forth meat, and out of the strong came forth sweetness." He had killed a lion, and left its carcass ; on returning, soon after, he found a swarm of bees had...

...and godly sincerity that I helieve they need no other recommendation. Stamford, Dec. 3, 1839. ,1. CP "Out of the eater came forth meat, and out of the strong came forth sweetness." (Judges xiv. 14.) We read of one in days of old 'Twas put to Sampson's friends we learn, Who met a...

...fact for future use. Accordingly, to his "thirty companions," at his nuptials, he proposed the riddle, "Out of the eater came forth meat, and out of the strong came forth sweetness," laying a wager with them, that it would foil their ingenuity. Finding themselves perplexed for the...