Samson and the Three Hundred Foxes
By Golden Censer
SAMSON went and caught three hundred foxes. How Samson could obtain so many foxes, even if men accustomed to hunting should help him, has led persons to deny the truth of the story. We could not catch them. In some parts of Syria the jackal, which is a species of fox, is found in large packs, and they are easily taken. Dr. Taylor said he could at any time collect as many as Samson had on forty-eight hours' notice. Somehow whenever a statement of the Bible seems to be beyond belief, it is only because we do not know the facts of the times when these things were done, or we do not yet reach to the depth of knowledge necessary to understand them. Convict the Bible of a single falsehood, and no man will believe in it at all. But so large a book, so full of statements, and many of them so profound, and yet all so true, is a wonder of wonders if it be not divine.—Golden Censer.