Preface

He character and life of DAVID are
supremely fascinating, not only to holy
souls, whose deepest thoughts have been
expressed in his unrivalled Psalms, but
to all men: because of their humanness; their
variety; their sharply contrasted experiences; their
exhibition of traits of generosity and courage which
always elicit admiration.

Whilst sketching every period of DAVID’S life, I have concentrated myself on those passages which trace the steps by which the shepherd became the king. It was in these that his character was formed his sweetest psalms composed, and those manifold experiences encountered which enabled him to interpret and utter the universal heart of man.

Sweet Singer of the World; Ancestor of Christ; Founder of a Dynasty of Kings; a Prophet, inspired and taught, as the Apostle Peter tells us, by the Holy Ghost; the type and precursor of Him, who, though his Son, was also his Lord; the man after God’s own heart, who “did that which was right in the eyes of the Lord, and turned not aside from any thing that He commanded him all the days of his life, save only in the matter of Uriah the Hittite.” So long as time lasts, DAVID must always enlist affection and command respect.