t the Lord alone
is King.

Daniel, named by the king Belteshazzar, was called to interpret the
dream, and the Lord gave him power to do it.

"The tree that thou sawest," said Daniel, "it is thou, O king, that art
grown and become strong; for thy greatness is grown and reacheth unto
heaven, and thy dominion to the end of the earth."

Then Daniel told the king that he must be driven from men to dwell with
the beasts of the field; to eat grass with the oxen, and be wet with
the dews of heaven, until he had learned that the Most High rules in
the kingdom of men, and gives to whosoever He will. But as the roots
of the tree were left in the ground, so his kingdom should be preserved
for him until he had learned that the heavens do rule.

At the end of a year the king's heart had not been made humble, for as
he walked in his palace he said to himself:

"Is not this great Babylon that I have built for the house of the
kingdom by the might of my power, and for the honor of my majesty?"

And while he yet spoke there fell a voice from heaven, saying:

"O, King Nebuchadnezzar, to thee it is spoken; the kingdom is departed
from thee."

And within an hour the word of the Lord came true. For seven years he
was without reason, and was an outcast from his kingdom. But at the
end of that time his eyes were lifted to heaven and his reason
returned, and his kingdom was restored to him, for he had learned that
God alone is great, and "Those that walk in pride He is able to abase."

Belshazzar was the next king of Babylon. He made a great feast, and a
thousand of his lords were bidden to sit around his tables in the great
hall of the palace. While he drank the wine he thought of the holy
vessels of gold and silver that his father had brought out of the
Temple at Jerusalem, and he sent for them, and into these golden bowls
that had been consecrated to the worship of God he poured wine and gave
it to his princes and to his wives, while they praised the gods of
gold, and silver, and wood, and stone.

While they were feasting, and laughing, and singing, there came a man's
hand and wrote some strange words on the wall of the great hall where
they sat. The king saw the hand as it wrote, and he was so much afraid
that he trembled and grew very weak. He called for his wise men and
they could not read the writing, but the queen remembered that in the
time of Nebuchadnezzar there was a man whom he made master of the
magicians becaus