THE BOY-KING.


 Do you see that boyish-looking person holding a long
roll of parchment? He was named Josiah, and was only
eight years old when he began to be king in Jerusalem.
Do you know what it is to do right? He did, for we are
told "he did right in the sight of the Lord, and turned not
to the right hand nor to the left." That is what he did
as a little boy.
 When he was sixteen years old he began to make
others do right. He learned how the people had been
worshipping idols, where the temples and images were;
and when he was twenty, he did as no other king had done:
the groves where they had heathen worship he cut down,
the images of Baal he broke in pieces, the great images
to the sun he destroyed, the carved idols and all those
made of melted gold, brass, or silver, were broken and
ground to fine dust, and the dust was strewn over the
graves of people who had served those idols. He had
the bones of Baal-priests burned on the altars of Baal,
and then the altars broken down and ground to powder.
He stopped the worship of priests to the sun, moon, and
stars.
 As he was looking at the graves of the priests he