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ai of the Lives of Da^dd and Jonathan I Samuel had commanded Saul to destroy the Amalekites and to take : • -poil, but he brought back herds, flocks, plunder, and even Agag, King of the Amalekites. While Saul w is waiting at Gilgal, Samuel ap- peared and upbraided him for his disobedience. The old prophet, in ,.n excess of indignation, seized a sword and hewed Agag to pieces and left Saul with the warning that In, kingdom would be taken from ■him and given to another. At this point begins the photodrama. 1 Samuel receives a revelation to go to Bethlehem and there find one tu to become great •in Israel. He takes with him a heifer for sacrifice and appears before Jesse in Bethlehem. Six of Jesse's sons are presented and Samuel is ab.iut to select Eliab the eldest when a warning comes to Samuel, and on his d.-niand sse signals for David 10 is with his sheep. While David is telling father and brothers about s fight with a lion, Samuel itens and decides to anoint avid, but DaWd does not nderstand that he is anointed to become ing. Doeg, the Edomite. of alien race. !es the anointing and later uses the fact inflame Saul's jealousy. The fields of Boaz, the oriental life, and le always beautiful scene of Ruth and aomi are strikingly presented. Saul orders his army in battle array to leet the Philistines, coming in great rdes over the hills. The Philistines put forth leir champion. Goliath, to fight a duel, the lult of which shall determine which side tall be victor. Saul trembles and will not Jonathan fight the giant. David, bringing revisions, finds his brothers in fear of the iant and, against their counsel, offers to fight Goliath, in contempt of David's size, throws ack the "visor of his helmet so that the stone lirown by David reaches its mark. David's slaying of the giant encourages the raelites and arouses the admiration of Jona- lan, so that the foundation of an everlasting endship is there laid. Jonathan proposes and i j i l- c ■ -c t ley take a sacred covenant of blood brotherhood before the prophet, Samuel. Into this scene is condensed the history ol a signincant. icient custom from which raanv modem fraternal ideas have been d'velnped. j t rt -A David returns to his flocks; Saul's malady grows rapidly worse. Jonatlmn persuades Saul after one of his paroxysms to send lor uavia expel the evil spirits bv his music. , ., i j-a . •. ^ -. tk. David in Saul's court giiickly gains favor and excites jealousy. In this scene, and m many others of widely different situations, tne Ventv-third Psalm is developed, and the theme of Browning's poem. Snul. is visualized. The people rejoicing over David's victories arouses Saul's jealousy, and Doeg plots with Saul to send him agamst the Philistines so tlut ^T^e picture'rapidly sketches in thrilling scenes, the home life of Saul's daughters, David's courtship and marriage, his advancement Saiil's kalous rage. Doeg's plotting. David's escape, Jonathan's fidelity, and Saul's pursuit of David through the vaUeys and mountains for ten ,bove—Saul and Doeg plot to send David against the Philistines with scan- troops. ^^ low—"And I will shoot three arrows on the side, thereof, as though I shot at a mark. "or his victory over the Philistines. »7 (Continued on page 20)