. Sweet stories of God; in the language of childhood and the beautiful delineations of sacred art . eak, Lord, for I hear thee. And the Lord told Sam-u-el all that he meant todo to the house of E-li. He had let his sons go onin their sins, and they were to be put to death in away that would make men fear God. Sam-u-el lay still till day-light. Then he rose,but did not dare to tell E-li what God had told him. But E-li called him and said, What did the Lordsay to thee? I pray thee hide it not from me. So Sam-u-el told E-li all that the Lord had E-li heard it, he said, It is the Lord, l
. Sweet stories of God; in the language of childhood and the beautiful delineations of sacred art . eak, Lord, for I hear thee. And the Lord told Sam-u-el all that he meant todo to the house of E-li. He had let his sons go onin their sins, and they were to be put to death in away that would make men fear God. Sam-u-el lay still till day-light. Then he rose,but did not dare to tell E-li what God had told him. But E-li called him and said, What did the Lordsay to thee? I pray thee hide it not from me. So Sam-u-el told E-li all that the Lord had E-li heard it, he said, It is the Lord, let himdo what he thinks is best. And Sam-u-el grew, and the Lord was with himand blest him, and it was known to all that he wasone of Gods saints, who could fore-tell things thatwere to take place. Such wise men were some-timescalled seers. The words which God spoke to Sam-u-el came Samuel, the Child of God, 149 true; for the chil-dren of Is-ra-el went out to fightthe Phil-is-tines, and a host of them were slain. Those who came back said, Let us take the arkout with us to save us from our CAP-TURE OF THE ARK. Now God had not told them to take the ark, andit was a sin for them to touch it. They should haveput their trust in the Lord, and looked to him for help* IS° History of the Old Testament. But they sent to Shi-loh for the ark, and E-listwo sons came with it. When it was brought to thecamp the Jews gave such a shout that the earth shookwith the noise. And when the Phil-is-tines heard it, they said,What does it mean ? And they were told that the arkof the Lord had been brought to the camp of Is-ra-el. And they were in great fear; for they said, Godis come to the camp! Woe un-to us, for this is thefirst time such a thing has been done! And they said, Let us be strong and fight likemen, that we may not be slaves to these Jews! So they fought once more with the Jews, andslew a host of them, and the rest fled to their the ark of the Lord fell in-to the hands of
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