(First and Second Soldiers return.)
First Soldier: Alas, alas, who now shall judge our people?
Third Soldier (seizes Samuel and raises him aloft): Behold the judge who shall rule Israel.
(The Soldiers pass out, bearing Samuel and shouting, "Huzza!")
(The Epilogue advances.)
Epilogue: Hear ye the words of the preacher, how he said: Even a child is known by his doings, whether his work be pure and whether it be right. Bring up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it. (The Epilogue passes out.)
