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to say that religion in young or old is a mark of either physical or mental weakness, and those who would make us believe that such is the case are false witnesses and children of the wicked one.
Then, last of all, Samuel’s life was a useful life. It filled a large place in the history of his people, and his influence was always for good. Wherever he went he was ministering before the Lord, just as he did when he was a little boy. Through life he was loved and honored by all, and when he died he was laid in the grave amid the lamentations of the people. Is there not something in a life like this attractive to us all, and will not every one of my readers make the prayer of the Christian poet his own?—
> “Oh, give me Samuel’s heart—
> A lowly heart, that waits
> Where in Thy house Thou art,
> Or watches at Thy gates—
> By day and night, a heart that still
> Moves at the breathing of Thy will.”