Destroying the Idol*

(Address delivered at our Field Day, July 4, 1933) When Ahaziah's mother, Athaliah, heard of her son's death, she slew all the royal seed of the house of Judah. One son, Joash, was saved and hid in the temple six years. In the seventh year the priest Jehoiada strengthened himself. Taking with him the captains of hundred, he went through Judah and gathered the Levites and the chiefs of the fathers out of all the cities of Judah. Coming to Jerusalem, he made a covenant with the young king, now...