The Spring of the Day.
1 Samuel 9:26 And they arose early: and it came to
pass about the spring of the day, that Samuel called Saul to the top of the
house, saying, Up, that I may send thee away. And Saul arose, and they went out
both of them, he and Samuel, abroad.
“The time was to the day what spring is to the
year. The diurnal revolution of the earth round its own axis corresponds with
the annual revolution of the earth round the sun, and the different periods of
the day — morning, noon and night — therefore resemble the different seasons of
the year — spring, summer, autumn, and winter. According to this beautiful
analogy, the spring of the day embraces the early hours after sunrise. Nowhere
is the spring of the day so delightful as in Palestine, for later on it becomes
oppressively hot. The people do all their travelling and most of their work in
the early morning. Saul commenced that, fateful journey homeward from the hill
village of the prophet which led to the throne of Israel in the spring of the
day. Ah! what difference that first setting out in life, from the hill of Juph
in the spring of the day from the dark closing of his life on Mount Gilboa in
the dreary winter of the day.”
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