The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-03-16

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 ture selected by the Interpati6nais Sun
 day school ieFon committee for the
 Today;s talk deals with The Reign
 of David, the second king. of NEael.
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 about thousand years before. Christ.
 Bible scholars of all countrisss tn David irst place among all tks illus
 trious men whose biokra phies are told ,
 in the oid Testament. i,x
 ;. Making A Man
 Boyhood- is time of .thrflling ex periences. \ The healthy, normal boy lives iIssfwo worlds at once-yin tht world fof fact, and things actual, and at thes same time in thes realm of things ina ginary, the land of max lieve. The typical boy iss interested in everything. Everybody is interested in him. {re. ;s@s 5
 Perhaps sometime, somebody will crowd the remarkable; storygol the re markable boy, David into scenario and film it for the screen.
 For thousands of years, children have thrilled at hearing about the boy who was brought to the palaeesof the king to smake music by. playing his flute fashioned with a pocket knife from an alder bush. 2
 Saul, the king, was growing old The duties and cares of his office rested more and more heaFil9 upon him. The affairs of his kingdom had been going from bad to worse. He had made bad laws. His decisions upon important questions were. more often wrong than right. All of. this came from his lack of eharaeteE The moral and spiritual side ofs his 5make up had been undermined hH conceit, seIf-will and disobedience. gheIe were times when he became so depressed il mind that, he was almost insane. In peace of Jehovah, was no longer his.
 The servants in the paiace noticed that music seemed to- drive away Sanls gloom, and make him more nearly him. self. One day. Saul said sSS
 Co and find someone gwhe has learned how to play cheerful music They brought David7with his bofnemade flute. The boy had practifed much while fninding his fathers sh&eps The story says he had beaukifhg clear voice, and could play. onlsa egreat stringed instrument called the harp. :,
 The King was so pleased with thu handsome, manly boy, that he instructed the commander r-in-chief of his army, tt arrange always for David to ride. in thu Kings chariot when he should 20 forti with his soldiers. He. appointed David as the royal armor-bearer. e:@
 Rattle By Champion
 The second reel of the film would un. told a more thrilling cha aptera from thu life of David. It would showsa a wids valley chosen for battle field. Il would show two opposing arniiesson op posite hills, facing each other across ths level land between. On one side were the soldiers of Israel; on the other side with greater numbers and betteE weap- ons and with many more supplies wers the old and dreaded enemy, Sthe PhiIis tines. ~, ., s
 David had three brothers who were ir the army of Israel. King Saul wal their commander-in-c chief. sf
 Every day great; tall, muscular man clad in armor, wearing high Spiked helmet, came out on No Man Land in front of Saul's army dTchalienged the Israelites to. send any one of theiI number to fight with him.. nayipg that which ever should lose shoulA' c&llse all his fellow soldiers to surrender. %
 ,"I am a Philistine," the great fellow who was nine feet tall, would say, "anc you are the servants of Saul. Choose