And the people said they would. Then this good young king told his men to bring all the carved images and idols they could find in the groves and fields round about, for I am sorry to tell you they used to worship idols, instead of praying to the true God; and the men brought all the idols they could find, and the king broke them in pieces, and ground them to powder, and cut down the groves of trees in which the people used to meet to worship them, and burned the vessels in which they used to burn incense to their gods, and did every thing he could to prevent his people from breaking God's holy commands. W. I know which you mean, Mamma. The first CommandThou shalt have no ment says, other Gods but me," and the second Commandment tells us we must not make any graven images. I think King Josiah's people must have been like the poor hea then whom Grandpapa tells us about; as they had never before heard about the true God, who lives in heaven. What a happy thing it was for them that the Bible was found! Mamma. It was indeed, my love; and it would have been a happy thing if all the people had followed the example of that good young king, for he did "that which was right in the sight of the Lord, and walked in all the ways of David his father, and |