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Josiah was the third, and the best boy-king. Although Josiah was the son of the wicked king A mon, and began to reign when he was but eight years old, we read something very nice of Josiah’s youthful clays. We read, “While he was yet young, he began to seek after the God of David, his father,” etc. It is a good character indeed that the Word of God gives Josiah. (see 2 Chron. 34:1-31Josiah was eight years old when he began to reign, and he reigned in Jerusalem one and thirty years. 2And he did that which was right in the sight of the Lord, and walked in the ways of David his father, and declined neither to the right hand, nor to the left. 3For in the eighth year of his reign, while he was yet young, he began to seek after the God of David his father: and in the twelfth year he began to purge Judah and Jerusalem from the high places, and the groves, and the carved images, and the molten images. (2 Chronicles 34:1‑3).) And I here request my readers to turn to 2 Chron. 34 and 35, and there to read how much good this boy grew up to do, during his lifetime.
In his youth he sought the Lord; and the good boy-king, became the good man-king; for his heart was right in the sight of the Lord. And the people of Judah loved their good king very much; so that when after a prosperous reign of thirty-one years, he died, their grief was very great: “And all Judah and Jerusalem mourned for Josiah.” And for many, many years afterward, the singing men and singing women spoke of Josiah in their lamentations.
May every youthful reader learn a lesson, and follow Josiah’s good example, and seek the Lord in their youth. The Lord says to each one. “Seek ye My face;” and if you from the heart answer, “Thy face, Lord, will I seek,” He will be found of you. You shall know that all your sins are forgiven you for Christ’s sake, and you will be able to rejoice in God your Savior.
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