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diff --git a/25486.txt b/25486.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..145ff4e --- /dev/null +++ b/25486.txt @@ -0,0 +1,860 @@ +The Project Gutenberg EBook of David the Shepherd Boy, by Amy Steedman + +This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with +almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: David the Shepherd Boy + +Author: Amy Steedman + +Release Date: May 16, 2008 [EBook #25486] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ASCII + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK DAVID THE SHEPHERD BOY *** + + + + +Produced by Juliet Sutherland, David Wilson and the Online +Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net + + + + + + + + + +[Illustration: "There remaineth yet the youngest, and, behold, he +keepeth the sheep." 1. Sam. xvi. 11.] + + + + +DAVID THE SHEPHERD BOY + +By AMY STEEDMAN + + +[Illustration] + + +THOMAS NELSON & SONS +NEW YORK + + + + +BOOKS IN THIS SERIES + + JOSEPH THE DREAMER + THE BABE IN THE BULRUSHES + DAVID THE SHEPHERD BOY + THE CHILD JESUS + THE GOOD PHYSICIAN + THE GOOD SHEPHERD + + +PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA + + + + +The Story of David + +[Illustration] + + +Up amongst the hills, perched like the nest of a bird on one of the long +low ridges, lies the little town of Bethlehem. It was but a small town +at the time this story begins, and there was nothing about it to make it +at all famous. It lay out of the beaten track, and any one wanting to +visit it must needs climb the long winding road that led from the plain +beneath, through olive groves and sheepfields, up to the city gate--a +steep, difficult road, leading nowhere but to the little town itself. + +It was in these fields on the slope of the hills that David, the +shepherd boy of Bethlehem, spent his days watching his father's flocks. +That father, whose name was Jesse, was one of the chief men of the +town, and David was the youngest of all his sons. + +There were seven big brothers at home, and it was no wonder Jesse was +proud of his sons. They were tall, splendid young men, all of them doing +men's work now, and taking very little notice of the youngest, who was +still only a small boy, chiefly useful in looking after the sheep. + +But though David was but little thought of, no one could say that he did +not do his work well. There was not a more careful or watchful shepherd +on all the hills around Bethlehem. He knew each one of his sheep, and +never allowed one to stray. He always led them to the best pasture, and +found the coolest and freshest water for them to drink. Then, too, he +was as brave as a lion, and if any wild beast came lurking round hoping +to snatch a lamb away, David was up at once and would attack the +fiercest beast single-handed. Nothing could ever do any harm to his +flock. + +Now it happened that one day while David was, as usual, out in the +fields that a sudden stir of excitement awoke in the little town of +Bethlehem. Men gathered round the city gate, and with anxious, fearful +eyes looked down the long white road that led up from the plain below. +And yet there seemed nothing there to make them look so terrified and +anxious. Only an old feeble man was slowly climbing up towards the town. +He was driving a heifer before him, and carrying what looked like a horn +in his hand. + +[Illustration: An old feeble man was slowly climbing up towards the +town.] + +But the people whispered together that the old man was none other than +Samuel, the prophet of the Lord, who carried God's messages. He must be +bringing a message to them, and who knew if it was good or evil. They +tried with uneasy minds to remember if they had been doing anything +wrong of late as they watched the old man drawing nearer and nearer. +Then at last the chief men of the town went out to meet him. + +"Comest thou peaceably?" they asked anxiously. + +The old man lifted his head and looked at them kindly as he echoed their +words. + +"Peaceably," he answered at once; "I am come to sacrifice unto the +Lord." + +A great sigh of relief went up from the people. The visit was a mark of +God's favour and not of His displeasure. + +It was true, indeed, that Samuel had come to offer sacrifice, but he had +come also on a secret errand about which no man knew but himself. God +had bidden him take his horn of oil and anoint one of the sons of Jesse +to be king over His people instead of Saul, the present king, who had +displeased Him. But it was to be done secretly. Saul must not hear of +it, or his vengeance would be swift. + +It was in Jesse's house that the feast of the sacrifice was prepared, +and Samuel ordered that all the sons of the house should pass before him +as they went to attend the sacrifice. + +The first to come was Eliab, Jesse's eldest son, and when Samuel saw him +he felt sure that this was the man who was to be anointed king. He was a +splendid young man, tall and strong and handsome, looking almost as +kingly as Saul himself. + +"Surely this is he," murmured Samuel to himself. But God's answer came +quickly. No, this was not the man. Samuel saw only the outward signs of +strength and beauty, but God saw deeper into the heart. + +So the eldest son passed on, and one by one the six brothers followed, +all sons that a father might well be proud of. But God sent no sign to +show that any of them was the chosen king. + +[Illustration: "Surely this is he," murmured Samuel to himself.] + +Samuel was puzzled. What could it mean? Then he turned again to Jesse. + +"Are here all thy children?" he asked. + +Surprised at the question, Jesse suddenly remembered the little lad, +his youngest son, who was out in the fields tending the sheep. Was it +possible that Samuel had any use for him? + +"Send and fetch him," ordered Samuel instantly, "for we will not sit +down till he comes hither." + +So a messenger was sent in haste to bring David; and presently he came +hurrying in, and as soon as Samuel saw him he knew his search was ended. + +He was only a little shepherd lad with the breath of the hills about +him, his golden hair tossed by the wind, his fair face flushed, and his +sunburned hand holding his shepherd's crook. But there was no doubt that +God had chosen him. + +"Arise and anoint him, for this is he," said God's voice in Samuel's +heart. + +Slowly, then, the old man rose and held the oil aloft and poured it upon +the boy's bowed head, while the rest of the company looked silently on. + +They were puzzled to know what it all meant. Perhaps the elder brothers +were envious, and wondered why this mere child should be singled out for +special favour. But no one dared to question God's messenger. + +Nothing further happened just then. Samuel returned as he had come by +the winding white road, and before long his visit was forgotten as the +people settled to their work again. + +[Illustration: Saul tries to kill David] + +Only David, out in the fields, thought more and more about what had +happened, and grew more and more certain that it had been a call from +God to do some special work for Him. The wonder of it filled his mind, +but it never interfered with his work. + +There was little time for idle dreaming in the boy's life. He was as +watchful as ever in his care for his sheep and as courageous as ever in +guarding them from prowling beasts. Even in his leisure time he was busy +too, and there was not one of the sunny hours of daylight that he +wasted. + +He loved music, and he taught himself to play on the harp, practising so +carefully and patiently that his fingers grew most wonderfully skilful. +Then he made songs to go to the music, some of the most beautiful songs +that ever have been made in all the world. Almost every child to-day +knows his beautiful song about the Good Shepherd: "The Lord is my +shepherd, I shall not want." + +There was another thing, too, that he learned to do with the same care +and patient perseverance, and that was to use his shepherd's sling. +There was no boy in all Bethlehem who could shoot as straight as he +could. He never missed his mark. + +It was no great thing, perhaps, to make music and aim straight, but it +was a great thing to do what lay nearest his hand with all his might. +Perhaps some day God would make use of his singing or have some work for +a boy who had a quick eye and a sure aim. Who could tell? + +So David learned to do his very best, and before very long God's call +came to him. + +[Illustration: Saul sat day after day in his darkened tent.] + +Saul, the King of Israel, sat day after day in his darkened tent ill and +full of misery. No one dared to go near him, and his servants whispered +together, "It is an evil spirit from the Lord that troubles him." + +Then some one suggested that perhaps music might help to cheer him and +drive the evil spirit from him. + +"Let our lord now command thy servants to seek out a man who is a +cunning player on a harp," they said to the king, "and it shall come to +pass that, when the evil spirit from God is upon thee, he shall play +with his hand, and thou shalt be well." + +[Illustration: David drew magic music from his harp's strings.] + +Saul listened to their words, and hope crept into his heart. + +"Provide me now a man that can play well, and bring him unto me," he +said eagerly. + +Now the fame of David's playing and singing had spread even beyond +Bethlehem. "We must send for David, the son of Jesse," said the king's +servants at once. He was the very person they wanted. Not only could he +sing and play, but he was a good boy, brave and fearless, and best of +all, as the servants said, "The Lord is with him." + +So the shepherd boy was brought to the king's darkened tent, ready to do +his bidding. Sitting there in the dim light, he drew such magic music +from his harp's strings, and sang such sweet songs, that the very song +of the birds seemed to be filling the tent. The king, as he listened, +seemed to feel the breath of the mountain fields, to hear the call of +the sheepfold and the murmur of the dancing streams. It acted like a +charm. The black misery was lifted from his heart, and the evil spirit +was put to flight by the song of the shepherd boy. + +It was no wonder, then, that the king, for a time at least, loved the +boy with his bright face and sunny hair, and wanted to keep him as his +armour-bearer. But perhaps, as Saul grew well and had no further need of +the music, David was no longer wanted, and so he went back again to the +Bethlehem fields to look after his sheep. + +God had made use of David's skill in music, and before very long another +call came to him. This time the need was for one who could aim straight, +who had a quick eye and a steady hand. + +War had broken out. The fierce Philistines had come up with their great +armies to try and conquer the land. Every man in Israel who could fight +was called up to protect his country. Already David's three elder +brothers had joined Saul's army, which was preparing to fight the enemy. + +[Illustration: Jesse sends David to the camp.] + +On either side of a narrow valley, divided by a stream which ran along +over smooth stones, the two armies faced each other. There they were +encamped, like wild beasts ready to fly at each other's throats. At any +moment the fight might begin, and that stream be stained red with blood. +Only the Philistines were far the strongest, and the Israelites had but +little chance of victory. + +This valley was seven or eight miles distant from the little town of +Bethlehem, and Jesse waited anxiously, day after day, for news of his +three sons. At last he could bear the anxiety no longer, and he +determined to send David to the camp to carry food to his brothers and +bring back news how they fared. + +So, very early one morning, David set out on his errand. He had +carefully put his sheep under the care of another shepherd, and he took +with him parched corn and loaves of bread for his brothers, as well as +ten cheeses which his father was sending to the officers under whom they +served. + +It was not long before the boy came within sight of the valley, and his +heart began to beat with excitement, for he saw that he had arrived just +as something was about to happen. The armies were drawn up in battle +array, and suddenly a great shout went up from both sides. It was the +battle-cry of the two armies which sounded in his ears. + +There was no time now to carry food and gifts, so David quickly left his +load at the entrance to the camp and hurried on to search for his +brothers. He had learned to find his way about a camp, where for a +short time he had been Saul's armour-bearer. So now he went swiftly +among the soldiers, until at last he found his brothers. "Were they +well?" he eagerly asked them; "and what were they doing?" + +[Illustration: Eagerly David began to ask them what it meant.] + +But even while he spoke there was a stir among the Philistines, and all +eyes were turned to watch, all ears were strained to hear the enemy's +challenge, which rang out clearly across the narrow valley. + +Out of the rank of the Philistines there had stepped a man so tall and +strong that he appeared to be a giant. He was more than nine feet high, +and the armour which he wore was so solid and heavy that it would have +crushed any ordinary man to the earth. + +This was Goliath, the great champion of the Philistines. Every morning +and every evening he strode proudly out and defied the Israelites, +bidding them find a champion who would come and fight with him. Once +again his challenge rang out on the clear air,-- + +"Choose you a man for you, and let him come down to me. If he be able to +fight with me and to kill me, then will we be your servants; but if I +prevail against him and kill him, then shall ye be our servants and +serve us. I defy the armies of Israel this day. Give me a man that we +may fight together." + +A great silence fell after the champion had shouted his last words of +defiance. There was no answer from the Israelites. No man had courage +enough to dream of accepting the challenge. + +David looked round him in amazement, and his cheeks burned with shame. +What were the people doing to allow this boasting heathen Philistine to +defy the armies of the living God? Eagerly he turned to the men around +him and began to ask them what it meant. The soldiers answered him +shortly. No, there was no one who dared to go forth and fight Goliath. +The king had promised great rewards to any man who would kill the giant. +But no one had dared to try. + +David's elder brothers heard his questions, and seeing how amazed he +was, they began to grow angry. Did he mean to reproach them? Perhaps he +thought of offering himself to fight the champion. It was time that this +shepherd boy should be put in his proper place. So his eldest brother +turned to him with a sneer. + +[Illustration: While he kept his father's sheep he had often to defend +them from wild beasts.] + +"Why camest thou hither?" he asked. "And with whom hast thou left those +few sheep in the wilderness? I know thy pride and the naughtiness of thy +heart, for thou hast come down that thou mightest see the battle." + +It could not have been very easy to bear this taunt. But David had +learned to conquer himself before he set out to conquer giants. So he +answered quietly instead of flashing back an angry reply. + +"What have I done?" he asked. "May I not ask a harmless question?" + +There were many questions he still wished to ask, and presently the +soldiers began to repeat his words one to another, until at last the +report was spread that some one had been found ready and willing to +answer the challenge of the giant Philistine. And of course the news +soon reached the king's ear. Saul sent immediately and ordered that the +shepherd lad should be brought to him. He had quite forgotten about the +boy who had charmed away his black moods with the magic music of his +harp. And David had grown and changed since those days. + +So now, when David stood before the king, Saul had no idea who he was, +and his one thought, as he looked at the slender youth, was that it was +madness to think of such a mere boy going out to give battle to the +great giant. + +"Thou art not able to go against this Philistine," he said; "for thou +art but a youth, and he a man of war from his youth." + +But David answered eagerly. He did not boast, but spoke steadily and +wisely. True, he had not been trained as a soldier, but his courage and +his strength had both been already proved. And he went on to tell the +king that while he kept his father's sheep he had often to defend them +from wild beasts. Once he had fought with a lion and a bear +single-handed and had killed them both. + +[Illustration: Saul puts his own armour on David.] + +It was not in his own strength that he trusted. "The Lord that delivered +me out of the paw of the lion and out of the paw of the bear, He will +deliver me out of the hand of this Philistine," he ended triumphantly. + +Faith in God was David's sure defence; and Saul as he listened bowed his +head in shame, for it was the faith which he himself had lost. It was +this faith, he knew, which might win the victory. It was an echo of the +confidence he had once felt when his whole trust had been in God, and he +recognized the true ring of the boy's courage. + +"Go," he said, "and the Lord be with thee." + +Then the king was eager to put his own armour on David, and he bade the +soldiers arm him with the royal sword and put a brass helmet on his +head. But David was not accustomed to wear heavy armour, and had never +been trained to use a sword. No, he would do his best with the only +weapon he thoroughly understood. + +So putting on once more his shepherd's coat, he took his sling in his +hand, and as he crossed the brook at the foot of the valley he filled +his shepherd's bag with smooth stones and fitted one of them to his +sling. Then with springing steps he began to climb the opposite side. + +The rage of Goliath was great when he saw the slender, fair-haired boy, +without either armour or sword, coming so boldly to meet him. + +"Am I a dog," he shouted, "that thou comest to me with staves?" + +[Illustration: David's fight with Goliath.] + +"I come to thee in the name of the Lord of Hosts, the God of the armies +of Israel, whom thou hast defied," rang out the clear answer. "The Lord +saveth not with sword and spear; for the battle is the Lord's, and He +will give you into our hands." + +The great giant lifted his spear, ready with one blow to end this +unequal fight. But David did not wait to come within reach of the spear. +Before Goliath came near, the boy stopped suddenly and sent a stone +whizzing through the air straight at the giant's head. The stone sank +into Goliath's forehead, and the great figure reeled and fell with a +mighty crash to the earth. Instantly David seized his sword and cut off +his head. + +[Illustration: David seized his sword and cut off his head.] + +So God's people were saved, and so again God made use of the shepherd +boy's training and skill, this time to win a great victory for His +people. + +The fair-haired shepherd boy had done his duty faithfully in the fields +on the hillside at home, where he was but little thought of. He had +always tried to do his best, whether he was keeping the sheep or +practising with his sling or learning to play the harp. And now, +suddenly, the great opportunity had come and found him ready. + +He had entered the camp an unnoticed country lad, carrying provisions to +his brothers. Now every soldier in the camp was shouting his name; the +king was ready to shower rewards and honors upon him. He was the hero of +the hour. + +The pleasant days in the Bethlehem fields were now over for David. There +was no thought of allowing him to return to his work. No, the king +declared he must remain as a soldier in the army, ready to defend his +king and country. Though he was still a mere boy he was placed in +command and set over the men of war. + +It was much more difficult work than looking after sheep, and as time +went on and dangers and difficulties beset him on every side, David must +often have longed for the old quiet days on the hillside. His path was +rough and dangerous now, and sad to say his feet often slipped and he +wandered far astray, but always he held fast to his faith in God, and +found his way back to the straight path. + +As the years went by Samuel's promise was at last fulfilled, and David +was made king over God's chosen people. David had often forgotten God, +but God had never forgotten him. + +What a change it was from the days when he wandered about the fields in +his sheepskin coat, often sleeping out under the stars, possessing only +his harp and his shepherd's sling. + +Now he wore royal robes, and there was a crown of pure gold upon his +head. Instead of the starry sky for a roof, he now lived in a palace of +cedar wood. + +And he knew surely that it was God who had taken care of him; that it +was God who had set the crown of gold upon his head, the seal to the +promise made in that long ago day when the old prophet had poured the +anointing oil upon the head of the wandering shepherd boy. + +Looking back, he saw that he had made many mistakes, that his soul was +stained with many sins; but he knew, too, that God would listen when he +prayed, "Wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow." + +As a little shepherd lad he had cared far more for his sheep than his +own safety. He had always been ready to risk his life for them. So now, +when he became king, his people were just as precious to him as his +sheep had been. He cared for them with all his heart. He was prepared to +suffer himself rather than any hurt should come near them. + +So perhaps he was, after all, not unworthy to stand as a type of the +great King, "great David's greater Son," the little Baby who was to be +born in the town of Bethlehem, the Good Shepherd who was to lay down His +life for His sheep. + + + + + +End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of David the Shepherd Boy, by Amy Steedman + +*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK DAVID THE SHEPHERD BOY *** + +***** This file should be named 25486.txt or 25486.zip ***** +This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: + http://www.gutenberg.org/2/5/4/8/25486/ + +Produced by Juliet Sutherland, David Wilson and the Online +Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net + + +Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions +will be renamed. + +Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no +one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation +(and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without +permission and without paying copyright royalties. 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