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92 make it with.” David knew better than that. He had no use for any tool that he had not learned to handle, and on the other hand (and that I think was the finest feature of the whole business), he knew how, when the opportunity came for it, to do the largest piece of work with the very simplest possible tool. Such knowledge may almost be said to be the whole secret of any really great achievement of life. To know how, when the call for a great deed comes, to find *in yourself*, under God, the resources to meet it, and to put those resources to the best possible use; that is pretty much the whole of it. If I were a boy and were choosing a coat of arms to be engraved on a seal, I think I should take David’s sling and five stones, for that is just what they mean. And thus the lad took his first step on that steadily ascending pathway that led him “no step backward” to the high places of the world. Soldier, ruler, king, poet, singer, who has voiced the deepest cry of the human heart for all ages and