. Christian herald and signs of our times . accessionto the throne of Ju-dah. He is believedto have been at thattime thirty years of• age. He had passedthrough a stra ngepreparation for thekinglv office. Emerg-ing suddenly frompastoral life, comingfrom a home in whichhis father and his el-der brothers evident-ly treated him almostas a child, he entersinto the life of a under the dis-pleasure of the kinghe becomes an out-law, and eventuallythe captain of a bandof outlaws. Duringsome eight or tenyears, his life isscarcely worth a dav years of that he could suffer nobly. His lastwhi
. Christian herald and signs of our times . accessionto the throne of Ju-dah. He is believedto have been at thattime thirty years of• age. He had passedthrough a stra ngepreparation for thekinglv office. Emerg-ing suddenly frompastoral life, comingfrom a home in whichhis father and his el-der brothers evident-ly treated him almostas a child, he entersinto the life of a under the dis-pleasure of the kinghe becomes an out-law, and eventuallythe captain of a bandof outlaws. Duringsome eight or tenyears, his life isscarcely worth a dav years of that he could suffer nobly. His lastwhich were the subject of the last tour eleven lessons, show how doshad walked with God, and how ehis wandering his heart was turneingly to the way he had temporariserted. A truly great man,whose pis not found in all secular history,him the kingdom was extended and iof the wars, which were an inevitattraction, developed out of the anacondition of its earlier stages, intotied and civilized national life whicgress was continued under THE BROOK KEDRON. ... s purchase. Thiswas all thedisciplinethat David underwentto teach him how to reign over a singularlystubborn and sensitive people, it is in-teresting to observe his success. Davidbrought to his task natural qualities whichwere of more use than any powers thatcould have come from education. In thosesolitary hours in the Bethlehem pastureshe had meditated much on God and hadformed principles which guided his life, invery different circumstances. A strong,vigorous, prompt man, impatient of injus-tice and wrongdoing, yet generous andmagnanimous, as such men are apt to be,he came to the throne with a conscious-ness of stewardship and a weighty senseof responsibility. It was remarkable thatsuch a man should have been a poet. Butthe divine afflatus rested on him in over-mastering works,even
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