Sampson was a Nazarite. He drank no wine nor strong drink; and so long as he kept the pledge and the secret of his strength, was indeed a giant. Read the scripture narrative.
“Then went Sampson down. . . . And behold a young lion roared against him.
“And the Spirit of the Lord came mightily upon him, and he rent him as he would have rent a kid; and he had nothing in his hand.” Judges xiv. 5, 6, etc.
Brothers! we have pledged ourselves,
Like the mighty man of old,
By a vow that bindeth fast,
By the Future! by the Past!
By their banners now unrolled!
That the secret of our strength,
Unacknowledged—unrevealed—