break even a bow of steel:"--that is plain-spoken enough, I think.
Who gave Samson his strength, again? What says the Bible? How
Samson met a young lion which roared against him, and he had nothing
in his hand, and the Spirit of the Lord came mightily upon him, and
he tore the lion as he would have torn a kid. And, again, how when
traitors had bound him with two new cords, the Spirit of the Lord
came mightily upon him, and the cords which were on his arms became
as flax that was burnt with fire, and fell from off his hands. And,
for God's sake, do not give in to that miserable fancy that because
these stories are what you call miraculous, therefore they have
nothing to do with you--that Samson's strength came to him
miraculously by God's Spirit, and yet yours comes to you a different
way. The Bible is written to tell you how all that happens really
happens--what all things really are; God is working among us always,
but we do not see Him; and the Bible just lifts up, once and for
all, the veil which hides Him from us, and lets us see, in one
instance, who it is that does all the wonderful things which go on
round us to this day, that when we see any thing like it happen we
may know whom to thank for it.

The Great Physician healed the blind and the lame in Judea; and
why?--to shew us who heals the blind and the lame now--to shew us
that the good gift of medicine and surgery, and the physician's art,
comes down from Him who cured the paralytic and cleansed the lepers
in Judea--to whom all power is given in heaven and earth.

So, again, with skill in farming and agriculture. From whom does
that come? The very heathens can tell us that, for it is curious,
that among the heathen, in all ages and countries, those men who
have found out great improvements in tilling the ground have been