. The training of the Chosen people. ed the story of the reign of Man-asseh in Judah. The king was madea captive and with great indignitiescarried to Babylon. His name isfound upon the monuments, wherehe is recorded as one of the tributarykings of Esar-haddon. The reformsof Manassehs mature age did notstrike deep root, and there was notmuch religious improvement through-From the monuments. 0ut the nation, until the young Josiahcame to the throne. For six years Josiah had been zealously uprootingidolatry. But he had made comparatively littleprogress toward a thorough reform until one of thoseap
. The training of the Chosen people. ed the story of the reign of Man-asseh in Judah. The king was madea captive and with great indignitiescarried to Babylon. His name isfound upon the monuments, wherehe is recorded as one of the tributarykings of Esar-haddon. The reformsof Manassehs mature age did notstrike deep root, and there was notmuch religious improvement through-From the monuments. 0ut the nation, until the young Josiahcame to the throne. For six years Josiah had been zealously uprootingidolatry. But he had made comparatively littleprogress toward a thorough reform until one of thoseapparently trivial incidents occurred upon which greatissues often turn, and forthwith Josiahs work receiveda marked spiritual impulse. That incident was the discovery, during some re-pairs upon the temple, of a copy of the book of thelaw. Some suppose that this scroll was the entirePentateuch; others that it was the whole or the majorpart of the book of Deuteronomy. The data for de-termining which view is correct are variously inter-. Esar-haddon. Chapter 36. The Word of the Lord 133 preted, and the answers, while of importance to theBiblical critic, would not affect, in the least, thereligious significance of the narrative. Whatever the nature of the book, or its origin, it isclear, in the first place, from the consternation withwhich the king and the people listened to the reading,that its contents came as a fresh disclosure of the willof Jehovah, and, in the second place, that these con-tents, whoever the author may have been, were con-firmed as a trustworthy divine revelation by the proph-etess Huldah (2 Ki. 22: 14-20) and by Jeremiah theprophet (Jer. 11: 1-5). We may note in passing that while to-day the print-ing press has made it impossible that the Bible shouldbe lost as a volume of literature, it is possible for therevelation of the Most High to sink out of our con-sciousness, through our indifference to it, as it sankout of the consciousness of Judah. Or, when we areno
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