The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1894-10-10

BROOKLYN. Oct THE Rev DR..
Ta'maSe who ii s5rl absent on his round
the world tour, has selected as the sub
j5ct Of today's sermon through the press
"Hadassah,'' The text chosen being Esther
H. Z. And be brought up Hadassah."
\ beautiful child was born in The capital
of Persia She. was an orphan and a cap
tive, her parents having been sto.en from
their Israeltish home and carried to
Shushan and died. leaving the- daughter
poor and in strange land. But an Is
rae.ite who had been carried into the same
captivity was attracted by the case OF the
orphan He educated her in his holy re-
ligion, and under r. roof Of that good
man this adoptedAhiid began to develop
Il sweetness and excellency Of character, II
ever equa.ed. certainly never surpassed.
Beautiful Hadassah! Could that adopted
father ever spare her from his household?
Her arcessness. her girlish sports her in
nocence, her orIhanage. had wound them
! selves thoroughly around his heart, just as
around each parent's heart among US there
are tendri,s climbing and fastening ard
blessoming and, growing stronger. I ex-
pect he was ike others who have loved
j
sickness wiz coma and death and bereave-
| ment. Alas, WI than anything the
| father expects opens to his adopted
enid! Ahasueru ia prince,y scoundrel,
| demands that H3dassah. the fair5st one in
al the kingdom, became his wife. Worse
| imam death was marriage to such a mon
| SER Of inquity. How great The change
when this young woman eft the home
| where God was vorshiped and religion
| honored to enter a palace devoted TO pride,
| ii0l2try ana sensuaIjy. "As q lamb to
| the Slaughter
The oppressed jews.
Ahasuerus knew not that his wife was
a Jewess. At the instigation Of the infa-
nous prime minister the king decrced
that all the Jews in the land sa1uld BE-
slain. HadAssah pleads the cause of her
| people. breaking through the rules of the
| court and presenting herself in the very
| face of death, crying, If | perish, l per
| ishr' oh, it was a sad time among that
| enslaved people, They had all heard the
| decree concerning tleIr death. Sorrow,
| Gaunt and CHASTITY, sat in thousands Of
| households, and mothers wildly pressed
! their infants to their breasts as the days
] Of massacre fastened on, praying that the
| same sword stroke which slew the mother
might also STAY the clild, rosebud and
| bud pershlng in the same blast
/ But Hadassah IS busy at court. The
| hard heart of the king is touched by her
| story, and although he could not reverse
| his decree for the Staying of the Jews ne
sent forth an order that they should arm
| themselves for defense. On horseback, on
| mules, on dromedaries. messengers sped
| through the land. bearing the kings dis
! patches, and a shout Of joy went up from
| that enslaved people at the faint nope Of
! success. l doubt not many a rusty blade
! was taken down and sharpsned. Unbeard-
| ed youths grew stout as giants at the
| thought Of defending mothers and sisters.
| Desperation strung up towards into he
| roes, and fragile women, Srasping their
weapons. swung them about the cradles,
4 impatient for the time to strike the blow
! in behalf of household and country.
The day of execution dawned Govern
/ ment officials armed and drilled, cOwed
\ before the battle shout Of the oppressed
| people. The cry Of defeat rang back to
| the palaces, but above the mountains of
| dead, above $4,000 crushed and mlngled
! corpses, sounded the triumph Of the de-
! livered Jews, and their enthusiasm was
I as when the higllanders came to the re-
: lief Of Lucknow, and the English army,
/ which stood in the very jaws of death,
at the sudden hope Of assistance and res
! cue lifted the shout above belching can
non and the death groan of hosts, crying,
I'VE are saved! We are saved"'
Christian Perseverance.
| My subject affords me opportunity of
/ illustrating what Christian character
may be under the greatest disadvantages.
| There is no Christian now exactly what
/ he wants to be. Your standard is much
/ higher than anything you have attained
\ unto. II there be any man so pulled up
/ as TO be thoroughly satisfied with the
/ amount of eXce,lency he has already at
! tanned. 1 have nothing to say to such
/ one But to those who are dissatisfied
h.. t.gf
under disadvantages which are keeping
them from being what they ought TO be,
/ have a message from God. Each Of
YOU labor under difficulties. There Is
something in your temperament, in your
worldly circumstances, in your calling,
that acts powerfully against you. Ad-
i hitting ali this. 1 introduce to you
/ Hadassah of the text. a noble Christian.
| Notwithstanding The most gigantic diff
( cu.ties She whom you might have eX-
! pected to be one Of the worst of women
| is one of the best.
In the first place, our subject is an IL
| lustration of what Christian character
may be under orphanage. This bible line
| te.s a long story about Hadassah. She
| had neither father nor mother A no
| beman had become her guardian, but
! there Is no one who can take the pace
/ of a parent. Who so able at night to
hear a child's prayer or al twilight to
chlds youthful wanderings or to soothe
! youthful sorrows? An individual will go
| through life bearing the marks of or
phanage. 1t will require more strength,