many of the places where David used to hide from Saul in this den or in that. Not far away was Bethlehem where he had tended his father’s sheep. Here was a comb of wild honey such as David had sought. There is nothing more fascinating than a boy’s growing appreciation of his world as it unfolds around him. I quote a few sentences from Dr. Broadus’s notes on John already mentioned: “He was a child of the mountains. Whenever education and religion take hold in a mountain region, the result is great
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