The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-08-05
Key and Analysis.

1. Attraction of heathenism to Israel. Dominant in this epoch. 3. Achievement of young man. Youthful king Josiah. counteracts tho influence of heathenism. His person. ality and life story.
 ,. Destructive effort-altars. images. groves. etc.
 {. Constructive seffort-repair of the temple. The Teachers Lantern. An American professor signalized his departure to take the chair in Oxford l to which he had been invited by the extravagant assertion. that men over sixty did nothing comparatively, and that the worlds work that was worth while was mostly done by men under forty.
 The spectacular procurement has at the same time, served to call atten- tion to the fact that youth should be encouraged to do, and not be too long retarded in processes of preparation. George Enots caution against being worn out on the way to great ideas needs to be needed.
 A long catalogue is that which records the achievements of young men and women. few examples only are here given: Mozart filled all the world with unearthly melody before he was thirty five, and Raphael gave us all his glowing canvases before he reached that age. Luther was thirty-four
 when he nailed his theses on the church door. William Cullen Bryant wrote "Thamatopsis'' when he was nineteen. Garfield was a college professor at twenty-six. Edison became the wizard l~A. ax,A C,,r rRaIL h. ed all his sermons before he was twenty-seve William Nichols Crouch composed his serenade. "Kathleen Mavourneen," at nineteen. The author of "Die wacht am Rhein" was twenty one when he wrote 1t.
 The world has just celebrated the one hunsfredth anniversary of the death oi l the poet Schiller It has not forgotten
 the early influences brought to bear | upon his genius; namely. his fathers high character and iearniRg. and his l mothers own poetic fervor and her l sympathy with her sons aspirations | In the case of the young king. Josiah | it was probably his mother only who | guided him toward his high career. Every boy and girl is an heir-appar- ent to a kingdom. It Is not realm or SOiu ldCe dHo empty iuuCtioHs, ous a kingdom of character and service. Clear vision of this-careful prepara- tion for it-courageous entrance upon
 1t Is the only genuine royalty. There is a subtle meaning in the orig | inal Hebrew word translated destroy 1 ed"-"the houses which the kings of Judah destroyed''-literally destroyed | by neglect" They did not need to raise iconoclastic hands against the | sacred building. All that was neces- sary was to leave 1t alone. To cease repairs. It costs as much as would build a small cathedral every year to keep St. Peters in Rome in repair. And other things besides buildings can be destroyed by neglect"
 l The vacuum must be filled. When | Josiah emptied the land of organism he | filed it with theism and restored the | worship of Jehovah. It Is not enough | to destroy evil. One must go on to con- | struct good.
 Here Is a fine example of organization l and cooperation. Josiah did not at-
 tempt to do the work single handed
 he associated others with him and pro-
 ceeded by a carefully arranged pro-
 | gram.
 Josiah had a political purpose and
 ambition as we'll as religious. His tour
 into the Northern Kingdom indicates
 that he hoped for a restoration of the
 ancient limits of the monarchy, and the
 conditions seeried favorable. for at that
 very time the Assyrians were losing
 power before the Medes.