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The Shepherd of Bethlehem, King of Israel, by A.l.o.e.
The Shepherd of Bethlehem King of Israel by Aloe Author:Charlotte Maria Tucker General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1869 Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million book... more »s for free. Excerpt: CHAPTER V. LECTURE I. DAVID AND THE LION. 'Y friends, let me carry back your thoughts to a period of time not much less than three thousand years ago -- about one thousand and sixty years before the Lord Jesus was born into the world. Then, in the meadows surrounding Bethlehem, a city in the holy land of Judaea, a young shepherd lad, named David, watched the flocks of his father. Ho dwelt in a fair and fertile spot. The eye of young David rested on fields of waving corn, olive-trees, fig-gardens, and terraces of vineyards, where the ripe purple grapes hung in rich and tempting clusters. The sun shines more brightly in Judaea than it ever does in our colder clime. Though David kept the sheep of his father Jesse, as a shepherd boy might have done, he was descended from a family distinguished amongst the thousands of Israel. His great-grandmother, Ruth, was the gentle young widow of Moab who left her people and her country to follow in poverty and affliction her step-mother, themourning Naomi. Jesse might possibly yet remember a silver-haired aged woman, who, when he was but a child, would take her little grandson on her knee, and tell him of the days when she had first come to Bethlehem, to glean in those very fields which she now could call her own. Ruth might have bid young Jesse put his trust in the holy God who had not forsaken her in the time of trouble, but who had, even in this world, plentifully rewarded the gentle and dutiful daughter. And David was descended from another woman of whose faith we read in the Bible ; though, as she had died hundreds of years before the young shepherd was born,...« less