Only Fear the Lord

“Only fear the Lord, and serve Him in truth with all your heart: for consider how great things He hath done for you. I Samuel 12:24 The surrounding nations and especially the Ammonites were beginning to trouble and oppress the people of Israel. Samuel’s two sons, whom he had appointed judges at Beersheba, were proving themselves un­worthy of their high calling. In the midst of these national calamities the children of Israel petitioned the aged Samuel for a king. We must not brush this evil of...