king-chooser, here is just the man. But something inside him, "the still
small voice" I think it was, said to him, "No, do not choose him, he is
not the one." The father then called a second son. Like the first he was
goodly to look upon. The great man commissioned to choose a king was
about to select this one when the same voice inside warned him to wait.
A third son was summoned. A third time the voice said, "No, he is not
the one."

How chagrined the father must have been to have all seven of his
splendid sons rejected! All? No, not all. For the king-chooser said,
"Have you no more sons?" "Yes, I have one other, but he is young and the
keeper of the sheep. I am sure you would not think of him as a king."
"Nevertheless," said the prophet, "send for him." And he came, the
youngest, the most unlikely one of all, at least so the father and the
brothers thought. But the voice within said, "This is the one, choose
him." You will want to read all of this wonderful story and you will
find it in your Bible, First Samuel the sixteenth chapter.

MEMORY VERSE, I _Samuel_ 16: 7

"And the Lord said unto Samuel, Look not on his countenance, or on
the height of his stature; for the Lord seeth not as man seeth;
for the man looketh on the outward appearance, but the Lord
looketh on the heart."

MEMORY HYMN [354]

_"O for a heart to praise my God."_