Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1890-05-30

SERMON PREACHED BY REV. r
DE WITT TALMAGE, D. D., MAY %.
A Powerful Discourse Presented in Full.
Queen Esthcr's knowledge of HID
eous Plot Revealed to the King
Mordecai's Day of Triumph.

preliminary exercises which In this congrc.
cation are considered as important as any
of the others, DIR. Talmage preached from
the text, 80 they hanged Haman on the
gallows that he had prepared for Mordc.
cal. Esther vii, 10. following is his scr
mon in full:
Here is an oriental courtier, about the
most offensive man in Hebrew history,
naman by name. He plotted for the de-
struction of the lsraelitish nation, and |
wonder not that in some Of the Hebrew
synagogues so this day when Hamaus
name is mentioned, the congregation clinch
their fists, and stamp their feet and cry:
"Let his name be blotted OUT Hannah
was prime minister in the magnificent
court of Persia. Thoroughly appreciatiye
Of the honor conferred ne expects every
hodNthat he passes to be OhscquiouS. Com
ing in one day at the gntc of the palace the
servants drop their heads in honor Of his
office; but Il Hebrew, named Mordccai,
gazes upon the passing diguitary without
bending his head or taking of his hat. lie
was a good man, and would not have been
negligent of the ordinary cOurtcsic- oil life,
but he felt no respect either for '''man or
the nation from which ne had come But
he could not be hypocriticHl; aud while
others made oriental suiaam. get lng clear
Ilown before This prime minister Wunn he
passed. Mordecai he Hebrew. relaxed not
Il muscle OF his neck, aud kept his chin
clear up. Because of mat AHrout Hannah
gets n decree from Ahaeucrus, the das-
tardly king, for the massacre of ali the Is
raelites and that, OF course, will include
MOrdecal.
THE PLOT REVEALED
To make a long story short, through
Queen Esther this whole plot was revealed
TO her husband, Ahasuerus. One night
Ahasuerus, who was afflicted with iusom-
MIA, in his sleepless hours calls for his socre-
tary to read to him a few passages OF Persian
history, and SO while away the night In
the book read that night to the king an ac-
count was given of "a spiracy, from
which Mordecai, the Hebrew had saved
the kings life, and for which Kindness
AIordecai had never received any reward.
Hannah, who had been fixing up a nice gal
lows 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 TO be given TO such one. Self
COnceited Hannah surprising that he him
self was to yet the honor. and not imagin-
ing for a moment that the deliverer of the
kings life was Mordecai. says: why your
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