the hills, flooding the world with silvery light.

With all this beauty around him, do you wonder that he was good and
happy?

One day, while David was watching his sheep in the field, Samuel, the
High Priest of the Lord, appeared before Jesse, David's father.

On a very wonderful errand had he come.

He told David's father that the Lord had chosen one of his sons to be
the new king of Israel, because Saul, the old king, was no longer fit to
rule.

"Call all your sons before me," said Samuel, "that I may anoint the
Lord's chosen one."

Oh, how proudly Jesse called his eldest son!

Tall, and straight, and strong, he stood there, looking every inch a
king.

"Surely," thought Samuel, "I have found him!"

But the Lord looked down into his heart--just as he looks into our
hearts today--and saw that all was not right there, and so the Lord said
to Samuel: "He is not the chosen one."

Then Samuel asked Jesse to call his second son.