seems wider than that which separates the unbending rule of Moses from the “grace and truth” which “came by Jesus Christ?” Samuel had of old time fancied that the tall Eliab was the Lord’s anointed; and Jesse had thought David only fit for the sheepcote; and when the Great King came, He was “as a root out of a dry ground:” but strength came out of weakness, and out of the strong sweetness. So it is in the case of our friends; the most obsequious are not always the truest, and seeming cruelty is often