THE CHILD PROPHET (1 Samuel iii. 1-14) FAITHLESSNESS AND DEFEAT (1 Samuel iv. 1-18) REPENTANCE AND VICTORY (1 Samuel vii, 1-12) 'MAKE US A KING' (1 Samuel viii. 4-20) THE OLD JUDGE AND THE YOUNG KING (1 Samuel ix. 16-27) THE KING AFTER MAN'S HEART (1 Samuel x. 17-27) SAMUEL'S CHALLENGE AND CHARGE (1 Samuel xii. 1-15) OLD TRUTH FOR A NEW EPOCH (1 Samuel xii. 13-25) SAUL REJECTED (1 Samuel xv. 10-23) THE SHEPHERD-KING (1 Samuel xvi. 1-13) THE VICTORY OF UNARMED FAITH (1 Samuel xvii. 32-51) A SOUL'S TRAGEDY (1 Samuel xviii. 5-16) JONATHAN, THE PATTERN OF FRIENDSHIP (1 Samuel xx.1-13) LOVE FOR HATE, THE TRUE _QUID PRO QUO_ (1 Samuel xxiv.4-17) LOVE AND REMORSE (1 Samuel xxvi. 5-12; 21-25) SAUL (1 Samuel xxviii. 15) 'WHAT DOEST THOU HERE?' (1 Samuel xxix. 3; I Kings xix. 9) THE SECRET OF COURAGE (1 Samuel xxx. 6) AT THE FRONT OR THE BASE (1 Samuel xxx. 24) THE END OF SELF-WILL (1 Samuel xxxi. 1-13) THE BOOK OF DEUTERONOMY GOD'S FAITHFULNESS 'Know therefore that the Lord thy God, He is God, the faithful God, which keepeth covenant and mercy with them that love Him.'--DEUT. vii. 9. 'Faithful,' like most Hebrew words, has a picture in it. It means something that can be (1) leant on, or (2) builded on. This leads to a double signification--(1) trustworthy, and that because (2) rigidly observant of obligations. So the word applies to a steward, a friend, or a witness. Its most wonderful and sublime application is to God. It presents to our adoring love-- I. God as coming under obligations to us. A marvellous and blessed idea. He limits His action, regards Himself as bound to a certain line of conduct. 1. Obligations from His act of creation. 'A faithful Creator,' bound to take care of those whom He has made. To supply their necessities. To satisfy their desires. To give to each the possibility of discharging its ideal. 2. Obligations from His past self. 'God is faithful by whom ye were called,' therefore He will do all that is imposed on Him by His act of calling. He cannot begin without completing. There are no abandoned mines. There are no half-hewn stones in His quarries, like the block at Baalbec. And this because the divine nature is inexhaustible in power and unchangeable in purpose. 3. Obligations from His own word. A revelation is presupposed by the notion of faithfulness. It is not possible in heathenism. 'Dumb idols,' which have given their worshippers no promises, cannot be thought of as faithful. By its grand conception of Jehovah as entering into a covenant with Israel, the Old Testament presents Him to our trust as having bound Himself to a known line of action. Thereby He becomes, if we may so phrase it, a constitutional monarch.