44 the Babylonians, who could not fail to observe the difference between the conduct of those who worshipped the true God and of those who worshipped idols. Would you be useful in life, and be remembered with gratitude after death? Be temperate and industrious in youth. Sir Isaac Newton, the celebrated philosopher, said, near the close of his Jife, “I owe nothing to genius, but every thing to industry.” For in the proper exertion of oné's own faculties, the blessing of God is ever experienged. CHAPTER III. & Nebuchadnezzq's dream of the great Image. Hn the second year of Nebuchadnezzar's reign, and the fourth year after Daniel was brought to Babylon, the king retired one night to rest in his palace. But his sleep was soon disturbed by distressing dreams. Again. he sought repose, but again a frightful vision was before him, and, he
