since it was the season of three great religious festivals—the Feast of Trumpets, the Day of Atonement and the Feast of Tabernacles. It was a particularly appropriate time therefore for the people to revive the nation’s religious life by starting work on the altar and the temple. They were evidently united and zealous in this desire to re-establish the old ways of truth and righteousness, for they were quite prepared to leave their fields, and the rebuilding of their own homes, in order to gather