But presenbly, when besides bhe wild uproar a glare of light flared up close to them, the chiefs began to fear for tho •afety of the camp, so they rose up to put an end to the turmoil, and found them selves in the presence of a spectacle which filled some with rage and horror and others with grief. The 'triumph of victory had turned the heads of the multitude. They felt prompted to give expression to their gratitude to the crod, and with a vivid remembrance of the horrible worship of their native land, a party of Phoenicians among the strangers in the camp had lighted a greab fire to their god Moloch, and were almost in the act of flinging an Amalekite into the flames as an offering pleasing in his eyes. Close at hand the Israelites had set up a clay image of bhe Egyptian god Set, which one of his Hebrew devotees had brought with him as a charm to protect his family, placing ib on a tall pillar of wood. Hundreds were dancing round ib and singing in triumph. Their worship could not have been more fervent. nor the rapture of their souls more eager, if they bad desired to pay the God of their fathers the thanksgiving which was His Soon after hia return to the camp, Aaron had assembled the people to sing praises and glorify the Lord ; bub the need for see ing an image of the God to which they might uplift their souls, after the manner to which they had so long been accustomed, had proved so strong in many of them that the mere sight of the clay idols had sufficed to bring them to their knees, and turn their hearts from the true God. Afc the sight of the worshippers of Moloch, who had already bound thoir vic tim, ready to cast him into the flames, Joshua was very wroth, and when in their darkness they refused bo hear him, he bade tho trumpet sound, and by the .help of the young fighting-men, who obeyed him blindly, and to whom the strangers were anything rather than dear, he drove them without bloodshed back to their own quar ter of the camp. The Hebrews yielded to the urgent ex hortations of old Nun, Hur, and Nahshon, and repenfced of their sin, which was aggra vated by ingratitude. 