THE LAW ON IDOLATRY.

 

In our last lesson we learned about the ten com-

- mandments, which were written by the finger of God on
tables of stone. These commandments are just as much.

for us as for the Jews. Now I want to tell you some-
thing about them.

he first was on iene “Thou shalt have no other
Gods before me.” He is the God who created all things,
and who alone is to be worshiped. Let me tell you of a

. good man who, kept this commandment, although it

brought him into sore trials. The great king of Babylon
was a proud and haughty king; and he made‘a law that’
if any man should ask a petition of any other God than
himself for thirty days he should be put in the lion’s den.

You see he wanted to be a God. Do you think
everybody obeyed him? No; there was one, Daniel, who
did not mind the king’s. command. This young man
Daniel was a Jew, who had been brought as a captive or-
slave into Babylon. He had been taught concerning the
true God, and had purposed in his heart that he would.
never worship any other God.

The king’s decree did not frighten him’at all; but he: