Elijah live in her house, Mamma, and had made a little cake for him every day, when she saw that God heard his prayer, and made her little boy well.

LESSON XIII.

THE THREE GOOD YOUNG MEN.

D. Have you any story to tell me out of the Bible to-day, Mamma?

Mamma. Yes: I will tell you a story about a wicked king.

D. I should like to hear it very much.

Mamma. There was once a naughty, wicked king, who neither loved nor served God, that great and good Being who lives up in heaven, and who gives us life and health, and all the blessings we enjoy. This king made a great image of gold, and set it up in a wide open plain, and told all the people that when they

heard some music playing, they were to fall down and pray to this golden image, instead of praying to Almighty God.

D. But that could be of no use, Mamma, because a great image could not hear what they said, and could not, therefore, answer their prayers.

Mamma. Indeed, my love, it could be of no use; and it was very wicked, for it was breaking one of God's commandments. Can you repeat the commandment which

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tells us we must not worship any graven image?

D. Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth. Thou shalt not bow down to them, nor serve them. Mamma.

This wicked king

took no notice of God's commandment, but said, that any person who did not fall down

and worship the golden image which he had set up, as soon as the music began to play, should be thrown into a burning fiery furnace.

D. Oh, Mamma! how very cruel and wicked!

Mamma. It was indeed, my

dear.

D. Did the people mind what the king said, Mamma?

Mamma. Yes, many of them did, for they were afraid of being thrown into the fiery furnace if