0o6 FIRE ONLY BURNED OFF THE CHAINS.

miles through to the gate on the other side. By these
gates were tall towers, two hundred and fifty in all. A
river ran through the city, and an elegant bridge over it;
at each end of the bridge was a palace, and from one to
the other was a tunnel under the river. One of these
palaces with its grounds covered seven miles, and had
three walls around it. These walls were built of different
colored bricks in figures, with borders and pictures of
birds and beasts. The wonder of Babylon was its royal
garden, built up to a great height, and terraced and laid
out with beds of earth, so that it seemed like a forest and
blooming shrubbery high up in the air.
 This great king did not worship the true God; he
once built an image as tall as a large tree or a church
spire, and covered it with gold. He said everybody must
fall down and worship it, and men with silver trumpets
called out the hour when they must bow down to it.
 Three of the princes brought from Jerusalem would
not do this. The king had them bound and cast into a
fire so hot that the men who put them in were burned to
death. But God saved them; and when the king looked
in the furnace, he saw with them as they walked unbound
in the midst of the fire, one who looked like the Son of
God. He called to them to come out of the fire, and
there was not even a smell of fire on their clothing.
 Another of these princes named Daniel, was faithful
to God, and he pleased the king because he could tell him