slipped away out of s presence and he smote the into the wall and and escaped that night the struggle was now passed the early tendency of the soul of the king to seek and to do good was finally subdued and he went forth to pursue the chosen of the lord as an open and enemy yet to justify himself by proving that t had first risen up against him he appeals to his servants and fully conscious that his cause would not stand the test of impartial examination he appeals to their interest and to their compassion rather than to their judgment hear now ye win the son of give every one of you fields and and make you all captains of thousands and captains of hundreds that all of yon have against me and there r the poetry op life me that my with th� mn of and there ia none of yoa that ia for me or unto me that my hath my me to lie in wait aa at filled with and jealousy heightened by the rising fame and influence of david him to the wilderness of where we meet with a remarkable instance of forbearance on the part of a persecuted man with the skirt of the long s robe in his hand david shows him tiiat he had advanced so near his person as to have been able with the same facility to destroy his life but that he spared him from reverence for the lord s when struck at once with a sense of his own recent danger with the honourable dealing of one whom he believed to be an enemy with the sight of the man he had once loved � loved in the days when his heart was not as now with tlie worst of passions and perhaps touched more than all with the tones of the voice which in those happier days had been his music is this thy voice my son david and then he lifted up his voice md this burst of his heart is opened to express the full sense he had of david s superiority and the strong feeling ever present to his mind that he should one day be to resign the of government into his hands and he to art more than rewarded me food i rewarded thee e ril and now behold i know well that thou be king and that the kingdom of be in thine hand a second instance of a similar kind occurs in which appears to be struck though less forcibly with the generosity of david whom he still addresses as his son and of whom he again that he shall do great things and stiu but these transient of former feeling pass away the gathering influence of david and himself to seek consolation imder his falling fortunes from the last miserable and barren resource of the utterly destitute in soul samuel is dead and though the king had from the impulse of his better judgment put away all who had familiar spirits and out of the land he to disguise himself and to go at midnight to cast his forlorn hopes upon the of the witch of and he to the woman i pray thee me by a and bring ap him whom i name thee and the woman him behold then what hath done how he hath cat that hare and the oat of the land fore then a for my lift to me ta and aware to her by the lord aa the lord there no happen to thee for thia thing then the woman whom bring np and he bring me up and when the woman cried with a load and the woman to why for art and the king unto her be not for what thou and the woman i gods out of the earth and he unto her what form ia he ofl and a d an old man up and he ia with a mantle and that it waa and he with hia to the ground and t owed and said to why thou me to bring me np and i am for the make war me and god ia departed me and me no more neither by nor by therefore i have called thee that make known me what i do then samuel wherefore then thou ask of me seeing the lord is departed thee and ia thine enemy and the lord hath done to him aa he by me for the lord hath rent the kingdom out of thine hand and it to thy neighbour to thou not the of the lord hia fierce wrath upon therefore hath the lord done this thing unto thee this day the lord wiu also with thee into the hand of the and to morrow shall thou and thy be with me the lord the host of into the hand of the then all along on the earth aid was of the of and there waa no in him for he had eaten no b all the day nor an the night how is this picture of the abject state of a fallen king � fallen not so much from earthly honour as from ihe countenance and protection of the of kings even the envious of his successor becomes an object of compassion when he answers to the question of samuel why hast ll ou me because i am sore distressed and when it is s d that he stooped with his face to the and finally fed � all along upon the earth there can scarcely be a stronger description of total of soul under a deep sense of the overwhelming might of as well as of a melancholy of the entire of all that he had trusted and in yet trusted in for lie had greatly feared the thing which was about to come upon him and which the awful voice 