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seize—his opportunity. I may not tell his eventful story here, but there is one feature of it which any one of us who wants to do any worthy work in the world, whether for God or man, may well remember. I suppose that it was not only because the situation was so desperate, but because King Saul saw in David something that somehow made him believe in him, that led the King to say to David, “Go.” But evidently he did not believe in him enough to be willing that he should go as he was. And so he harnessed him with a coat of mail, which David had no sooner tried on than he promptly and most sensibly took off.
That is the difference between David and a great many people to-day. The world is full of men and women who are thinking what a grand fight they could make if they had somebody else’s sword and helmet and coat of mail. A boy looks at a box of tools, and then at a finished piece of work, and says, “Oh yes, I could make that if I had such tools to