Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-05-26
HAMAN HUNG.
Discourse of Rev. DR.. Talmage
in the City Of Brooklyn.
$50 They Hanged Haman on the Gal
lows That He Had Prepared For
Aordecai" His Text.
Vacations and Disturbances Of Spirit in Your
Past Life Produced by Circumstances
Unworthy of Notice.
LET HIS NAME, BE BOOTED OUT.

LET HIS NAME BE BLoTTEp OUT.
! Special to the Gazette.
BROOKLYN. n. Y, May 25.-Ip, the Brooklyn
academy of music this morning, after the pre-
liminary exercises which in this congregation
are considered as important any of the others.
| DR.. Tslmage preached from the text, so they
hanged Hannah on the gaIlows that he had pre-
pared for Mordecai. - Esther vii. 10. Following
is his sermon in full:
Here il an oriental courtier, about the most
offensive man in Hebrew history, Haman by
name. he plotted for the destruction OF the Is
rselitish nation, and wonder not that in some
of the Hebrew synagogues to this day when Ha-
mans name is mentioned, the congregation
clench their lists and stamp their feet and cry,
LET his name be blotted out!'' Hannah was
| prime minister in the magnificent court OF Per-
| STA. Thoroughly appreciatiVe of the honor
conferred, he expects everybody that he
passes to be obsequious. Coming in one
day at the gate of the palace, the servants drop
their heads in honor Of his Office, but Hebrew,
named Mordecai, gazes upon the passing dig
nitary without benaing his head or taking off
! his nat. BE was good man, and would not
| have been negligent of the ordinary courtesies
OF life, but he felt no respect either for Hannah
or the nation from which he had come. But he
could not be hypocritical and while others
made Oriental salaam, getting clear down be-
fore this prince minister when he passed, Nor
decai, the Hebrew, relaxed not muscle of his
that affrout Hannah gets a decree from Ahasu-
erus the dastardly king, for the massacre oil all
the lsraeliteS, and that OF COURSE Will include
Mordecai.
TO MAKE A LONG STORY SHORT,
| through Queen Esther this whole plot was re-
vesled to her hus band, Ahasuerus. One night
Ahasuerus, who was afflicted with insomnia, in
his sleepless hours calls for his secretary to read
to him few passages OF Persian history and SO :
while away the. night In the book read that
nightto the king an account was given Of the
conspiracy from which Mordec2i, the Hebrew,
has saved the kings life, and for which kind
ness ,Mordecai had never received any reward.
HEman. who had been fixing up 4 nice gallows
to hang Mordecai on, was walking outside the
door Of the kings sleeping apartment
and was called in. The king, told
him that he had Just had read to
him the account Of some one who had saved his,
the kings life, and he asked what reward ought
Haman, supposing that he himself was to get
| the honor, and not inns ginning for moment
that the deliverer OF the kings life was
Mordecai, says: ''Why your majesty ought to
make triumph for him, and put crown
him, and set him on splendid horse, high
stepping Ind full blooded, and then have one OF
streets, crying, Bow the knee, here comes q
man who has saved the kings lifel -
Then said AhSsuerus q severe tones to HEman:
Il know all about your scoundrelsm. Now
you go out and make triumph for Mor6ecai,
| the Hebrew, whom you hate. Put the best sad
die on the finest horse, and You, the prince,
hold the stirrup while HordecAi gets on and
then lead his horse through the street. Make
haSteI' -
Whist . spectacle! A comedy and tragedy at
| one and the same time. There they goI Nor
dscai, who had been despissd, now starred and
| robsd in the Atirrups. Hannah, the chancellor,
| Efoot, holding the Prancing, rearing, chAmping
| stallion. Aordecai ben his neck At last, but
it is to look down at the degraded prime minis-
| ter walking beneath him.
HUzzA FOR AoRDECAII ALAS FOR HAMANl
But what pity to have the gallows, but re-
Gently built, entirely wasted! Il is fifty cubits
high, and built with care. And Haman had
erected it for Mordscai. by whoEe stirrups no
now walks as groom. Stranger and more start
| ling than any romance, there 20 up the steps OF
| the Ecaffold side by SIDE. the hangman and
Haman, the ex-chAncellor. 80 they hanged
Hanan on the gallows that he had prepared for
Nordecai.
Although SO many years have passed since
cowGrdly Ah2suerus reigned, and the beautiful
Esthur answered to his Whimg, and Persizs per
| ished, yet from the life and death of Hannah
may draw living lessons Of warning and instruc-
| ton. And, first, we come to the practical sug-
| gestion that, when the heart is wrong, things
| very insignificant viii destroy our comfort
Who would have thought that great prime
minister, admired and spplauded by millions OF
PerHians, would have been so nettled and har-
assed by anything trivial? What more could
| the great disnitary have wanted than his
| chariots and attendants, and palaces and BAN
| QustSf If sfnuence OF circumstances can make
. man contented and happy. surely Hannah
| should have been contented and happy. No;
| NordecaT . refusal Of bow takes the glitter
from the gold, and the richness from the purple,
| and the speed from the chariots. With a heart
| pulled up with every imitation OF vanity and re-
| Venge, it was impossible for him to be happy.
| The silence Of Aordecai at the gate was louder
| than the braying of trumpets in the palace.
Thus shall it always be il the heart il not right
| Circumstances the most trivial will disturb the
| spirit.
1T not the srest calsmities of life that create
| the most worriment. / have seen men, felled
| by repeated blows Of misfortune. arising from
| the dust, never Responding. But the most of
| the disquiet which men suffer Is from insignif-
| cant causes; q lion attacked by some beast of
prey turns easily around and Glays him, yet
runs roaring through the forest ct the alighting
| on hiI brawny neck of fsw insects You meet
some great loss IN business with comparative
| composurs; but You can think Of petty trick
| cries inflicted upon you, which rouse all your
capacity for wrath, and remain in your heGrtsxn.
| unbehrable annoyance. II you look back upon
your life you viii find that the most OF The vexa-
| lions and disturbances of spirit which you felt
| were produced by circumstances that
| WERE NOT WORTHY OF NOTICE II
If you want to be happy, you must not care Tor
TRIES. Do not be too minute in your inspection
| of ths treatment you receive from others. Who
| cares whether Mordecai bows when you pass, or
stands erect and stiff rs cedar? That wood
| man would not make much clearinglin the forest
.o1a Be- s:0 In 0 W
| that man accomplish much for the world or the
church who is too watchful and appreciatiye Of
| petty annoyances. There are multitudes of
| people in the world constantly narrowed be-
| cause they pass their lives not in searching out
| those things whidh are attractive and deserv:.
| vision to see whether they cannot find Nor
| decai.
1 Again, leAfn IrOIn the llIe OF tne man under
/ our notice that worldly vanity and sin are very
anxious to have pfety bow before them. Haman
was q fair emblem Of entire wordliness, and
kordecai the representative Of undinching god
/ illness. Such were the usages OF society in an
cient times that had this Israelits bowed to the
| prime minister, It would have been acknowl-
edgment OF respect for his character and nation.
EordecA would. therefore. have sinned against
| his religion had he made any obeisance or
| dropped his chin half an inch before Haman.
When, therefore, proud Haman attempt
| ed to compel an homage which was not felt, he
only did what the world ever since has tried 70 do
when st would force our holy religion In any
way 20 yield to its dictates. Daniel IL he had
besn man Of religious compromises, would
never have been thrown into the den Of lions.
| BE might have made some arrangement with
King Darius whereby he could have retained
| part Of his form Of religion without making him
/ self 80 completely obnoxious to the idolators.
Paul might have retained the favors of his rulerE
and. escaped martyrdom IL he had only been,
willing 70 mix mp his Christian faith with few
/ erfprs. His unbending Christian character was
| takeR as an insult
| FagotHnd rack and halter in all ages have
| been only the different ways In which the world
has demanded obeisance. Il was once, away