Sermon 1. David‘s Weakness
_ SERMON I. DAVID‘S WEAKNESS
NOTE:--The first four of these Sermons were preached before the University of Cambridge.
Psalm lxxviii. 71, 72, 73. He chose David his servant, and took him away from the sheep-folds. As he was following the ewes great with young ones, he took him； that he might feed Jacob his people, and Israel his inheritance. So he fed them with a faithful and true heart, and ruled them prudently with all his power.
I am about to preach to you four sermons on the character of David. His history, I take for granted, you all know.
I look on David as an all but ideal king, educated for his office by an all but ideal training. A shepherd first； a life--be it remembered--full of danger in those times and lands； then captain of a band of outlaws； and lastly a king, gradually and with difficulty fighting his way to a secure throne.
This was his course. But the most important stage of it was probably the first. Among the dumb anim

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