The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1888-10-23
AT TIE TABERNACLEr
(rontinued from. Fourth Pare. !

There is not in the world to-day q civil
liZation IL which the voice of Lat
ter. day Saint has not been heard.
Nations are talking about il. The
question of our religious faith forms
,h= theme of Congressional statesmen.
tle President in his Cabint thamb, T
aid the kings and queens of the earth.
Their eyes turn 10 this people, hidden
here in the Tecesses of these noun
tains; and they are en6eavoring to
discover the secret of our strength
The strength Of the Latter-dfy Saints
is not an open question with them to-
day. They see it by their actions as
much a. by their words. Ii there were
not some great influence at work
amor gst this people. would the Sena-
turs and Representatives of this gre at
land spend their time upon us; would
embers OF PariiameDt in Great Britain
stand up before august bodies and talk
on this question which they call MOI
mOIism? ?"
! The secret of Samson's strength Law
In his hair. H was said of him that his
hair should not be cut. and no razor
should come upon his head. He was
to have the strength of his Maker with
him, that he might believe Israel and
| accomplish much in dealing with the
people of cd. And Sampson grew in
strength until eventually he was a
mighty man. On one occasion, while
travel from place to place, he met q
hon IN his path. Remembering the
prophesies that had been uttered con-
corning him, and knowing that the
strength of God was with him if he ex
ercised faith, he seized the savage beast,
and with no other weapon than his
hands, strengthened by that divine in
t1uence, tore it to pieces and went on
his way rejoicing. Eventually he
sought cause of quarrel with the
Philistines, so that by that means he
might bring on combat and establish
the independently of Israel. Guided by
his own wisdom, he took oae of the
Philistine women as his wife, contrary
TO the command that the children of
Israel should not mingle with their
enemies The Philistines looked upon
this woman as fit instrument through
whom they could bring him under
their control. They tried in many
ways to get him into their power. One
night they watched him go into a
house and they thought they could
secure him as the gates of the city were
closed. But during the night Samson
arose and lifted those ponderous doors
from their hinges and so made his
escape. They remembered that; and
they did not wish to meet him in battle,
for he had slain thousands on previous
occasions. They asked his wife saying,
DO but ask your husband wherein lies
his great strength" and promised her
gifts and that her name should be
as one who has done much for her
people. TheH Delilah asked of
her husband what was the cause
of his strength. Samson told her q
falsehood, There is q charm upon
me-" he said "but if they will bind me
with seven green withs which have not
been dried, then shall l be weak as
another man. And after he was bound
with the withs she said unto him, 1.-The
Phiiistines be upon thee Samson" But
he sprang up in the strength of his
power and freed himself |
from the withs. for the power of God
had not yet LETT him. Delilah, seeing
this, comm enced to weep holding that |
he was no true husband to lie to her.
Again she besought him to reveal unto
her the secret of his strength and he
again called a falsehood to his aid. |
Said he, IF they can take seven new
cords that have never been used for |
else, and bind me with them,
then shall have no more power than |
any other man." Once again she sent for |
the officers of her people. While he |
slept, they passed those ropes over his |
body and bound them fast; and to test |
his strength, Delilah told him that the |
Philistines were there. Again he sprang |
forth as before and .lIade himself free |
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secret of his strength, and he adopted
said he, "the charm of my strength is
N my hair" He made her to Under
stand that if the seven locks of his head |
Of the marvellous strength he possessed.
10 be woven into matted fabric. She
,trated that his power had not for
weeping sadly that he
With her entreaties, he addressed her
saying, "There hath not come razor
Upon mine head, for l have been a
Nazerite unto God from nv mothers
womb; if be shaYen then my strength
N Ia SO 14OA 44Os 0Ao Ghh14 DOCOuO
weak. and be like any other man"
Oelilah again told the Philistenes; but
hey were not willing to come, as he
deceived them on previous occasions.
But she said, "Do but come this time,
or l know by his manner that he has
made known to me the secret of his
,ower." While he slept his hair was
horn from his head. And she
awakened him, telling him that the
ohilistines were there. He felt
trangely and went out and
hook himself. The Philistines
anne forward and he tried
O free himself as before. He was, in
Iced, as another man, and he was
AIKEN into their power and put to most
ruel torture. He was made to work in
he prison like slave, and was brought
tut for the amusement of the Philis-
ines, and as the subject of their con-
empt.
The history of that man has affected
men strangely. see in it a parallel
With the Latter-day Saints to-day. :
They have been told that the
t1ength of their Almighty Father
hould be with them if they would be
rue to the vows and to the covenants
hat they have made. And what have
he enemies of this people been doing?
from the time of the establishment of