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>,,oi b. h.s '..c in h" courtroom,
licked UP a dagger and plunged 1t
.lto her own heart. Then as she was
about to totter and fall she handed
this dagger to her husband. saying
"l'aetus, it does not hurt. Hurry. Be
quick and die with me-" ARIA was
willing to die for her dsgraced hus-
band. Queen Esther was ready TO lay
down her life for the Hebrew people, n
collection Of despised captives.
She was ready to do in the capital Of
Shushan what that greatest of all hui
man leaders, Moses, who was called
the son of PharaOhs daughter. had
been ready to do in the Egyptian capt.
tnl-tO die. She was ready to do In
Shushan what David Livingstone hal
been ready TO do in Africa. and Hud-
son Taylor in China. and John Patton
IN the New Hebrides. and as Judsor
and Bla!nard and John Elliott and
Father Marquette and Father Damien
were ready to do for the despised peo-
pies to whom they ministered. She was
ready to do Ms the hosts Of Christian
martyrs did in the times of the Roman
prosecutions. She was ready to do rs
the Salvation Army girls are doing
down in the slums of great city. She
was ready TO give up her life for those
who are despsed and downtrodden
and helpless. ms you and l should he
willing to try 10 lift the fallen ones up
out Of sin. up ont of ignorance. up out
OF superstition. up out of moral. mental
and physical filth. God help IFS to be
like Queen Esther and TO be ready. in
the name Of Christ, to surrender our
lives for despised, downtrodden and
sinful race.
The Honor Of a Wife.
But as | follow the noble resolution
II this brave woman am struck with
mother overwhelming fact. Queen Els
her was willing to defy all the social
'onventionnlities that govern oriental
IDEAS Of woman. She was ready II nee
,ssary to lay down her life for some
r"'slaves. But she was ready to dc
more than this. She was ready tC
wrench this concession IL possible from
a very bad man King Ahasuerus
lived In the depraved east in de
PRAYED age, but he must have been q
most notorious example even in thai
vile generation. No man but the mos
morally corrupt even In the depravet
east. Is willing to allow wife to Incur
dishonor before other men. The NOR,
depraved man Is. as rule. the more
he tries to guard and shield the hOno
OF his wife from the depravities o.
other men.
Could any one but a criminal mon
strosity. man lost to all semblance o.
decency and honor. wish his wife to EN-
ter banquet hall filled with drunk
ards and social lepers. as King Ahas
uerus demanded Vt Queen Vashti
why. even In India. where love 10 new
er reckoned a. an essential OF the mar
riage altar and where virtue In q maj
Is looked upon a. an unknown quaint
~, the women are protected. IN
wives and the sisters and the daugh
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father, Mordecai. WAS q deIout wor
shipper at the divine throne She was
grounded in the Hebrew faith when
child. She knew that God was omnpo
ten, and il she went forth in his
strength she might be olnnipoteut too
Oh, my friends. will You and 90 forth
to battle for God feeling that the iii.
vine power Of God Is in us and that wa
through him can do all things:
How clearly the power of God can be
seen in this story. In order to in
crease your faith in the operations Of
the divine power ! want you to step
aside little while from the queens
banquet hall to see how God also paves
the way for the conquest of his chill
dren. A few nights before the king
and his prime minister banqueted with
Queen Esther. AhasueruS was unable
TO sleep. Back and forward he tossed
upon his couch Then in disgust he
said to himself: Il cannot sleep. Then
at least let me pass the hours of night
away probably" So he began to call:
Light, guard, light. Send my secrc-
tary to read to me-" Turn to the sixth
chapter of the book OF Esther: ION that
night the king conld not sleep. and he
commanded 10 bring the book Of the
Chronicles, and they were read before
him" The book of Chronicles was
times. As the court secretary read on
he reads how Mordccai. the foster ia
Their of the queen. had forroted out an
intended crime whereby two Of the
chambcrlains, BigthAna and Teresh by
name. We're going Ia kill the king.
Then when the queen told the story OF
her life and that Mordeca was her foS-
ter father NJ once the king said; Yes.
Mordccui That is the Hebrew who
saved my life DO you not naturally
grasp the result? AT once the king was
influenced toward the Hebrews. and
this casual reading paved the way for
granting the request of the pleading
queen. You say this SleeplesSnesS of
the king was happen 50. You say
the reading of the Chronicles that night
was Il little thing. say these things
were ordained OF God and vital in their
after results.
Thus 10y the seemingly insiCnlhcant
things of life God is paving the way
for the benefit Of his children. And
by the seemingly insignificant things
he Is today paving the way for tho
salvation of some souls within our
church walls. Years ago there were
Queen Estlers pleading with Christ
for the salvation OF their dear ones,
went ON So today by n seeming In
Significance we We're leI to come T.
this mornings service. Our mothers
our fathers, our wives, our chldren's
prayers are about to he answered
Now is the accepted time for some o
us. The Holy Spirit is working in our
hearts now ms he worked In Shushau
banquet hall,
copyright. 1905, by Louis Klopsch.l
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EFF before the world. She had alb
.iltcly 10 means to free herself from
10 tyranny Of his will
Read today the tragic history Of
icon Nashti. No ono can truly study
- life OF Queen Esther unless he
sees alongside Of her face the beau
III face Of Queen Vashti. who was
r predecessor in the royal palace of
~ Modes and the Persians The
eat capital Of Shushan. about 200
lies away from Babylon, Is ablaze
With lights. All the princes and the
governors of the different provinces
are being entertained in the royal pal
aces. The streets Of the city are fes-
TONED with flags and banners. The
bravest warriors Of the army Of King
Ahasuerus have assembled their
troops for the magnificent military
pageant The bedrooms where the
guests slept seemed to be the sleeping
apartments Of an Aladdin. The beds
were OF solid gold. the tapestries of
costiiest linens, soft and fra grant In
perfumes. The floors were all Of the
finest mosaic. Every cup was a chal
ice and each chahce of especial work
manship. handmade and formed by
the fingers Of a master designer. Not
only that. but every guest for the
seven days could do as he willed. The
chariOts of the royal stables were all
bis. The most expensive viands Of the
banquet tables were his.
~ Wlll Not Come"
The royal entertainment had been 60
ing on for nearly week. II reached
its great climax on the night before
King Ahasuerus and the governors and
the princes were to separate. The
chambeFlsins were there. Louder and
louder played the music: more and
more hilarious became the sport. Now
II was an overturned decanter; again
It was fallen lord, tumbling upon the
floor In his drunken stupor. The court.
iers were drunk: the king was drunk.
And on the seventh day. when the
heart Of the king was merry"-what
happened2 The king turns to his
fawning. cringing guests and says:
Now. gentlemen, l will show a sight
the like of which you have never seen
In the past and you will never see
again. l will compel my beautiful
queen. WASN'T. to come into this ban
Quet hall and unveil herself before you
inebriated men. l will compel my
queen to obey me because ! am her
master. no. chamberlain! Go forth
and bring Vashti to me and let her re-
veal her beauty before these drunken
brutes" The messengers FASTENED
away. They went to the queens apart
ments aud carried the kings COM
mands. Then what happened? The
outraged queen drew herself to her
full height Her cheeks flushed, her
eyes glittered WITH excitement, her
hands convulsively clutched as she
said: Go back to your royal master
Tell him I will not come. My honor
is more sacred to me than my throne"
When she spake thus she knew in all
probability she was signing her own
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FIG. Stafford, Msnaeer.

tors are shut NJ in harems. They are
not even allowed to look upon the faces
of their fathers and brothers after
marriage. a woman Is guarded from
the eyes Of the world until her death.
II the wife of a !iindoo travels she Is
carried to the station icloSe,l in a con
veyance which suggests II big coffin
Then q big sheet or curtain is thrown
from the car door over this box, and
the wife. heavily yelled crawls into
her apartment. where every curtain Is
drawn and every door tightly shut 1t
Is considered a disgrace for her to be
seen by man. No sooner does man
enter street where the women are
than the cry is raised. THE men, the
men," And every woman rushes In
doors. fearing the eyes Of man as she
would the fangs of n deadly cobra II
man not a husband or n son dare en-
ter the women's apartments he Is shot
down or cut into pieces. as though he
were mad dog And vet here In licen-
tiOus Shushnn we find King Ahasuerus
demanding that his wife unveil herself
before drunken and dcbauched men,
Yet 1t was TO this VIGOROUSLY depravei
monarch that Queen Esther was Ia
plead for the salvation Of doomed
race.
Is there no practical application Of
this incident? Yes. If you and I are
ever TO accomplish much good In this
world We must work through many
different kinds Of instrumentalities. II
q man Is notorious libertine or scoun-
drel. that Is no reason why you and I
should regard him as wholly out OF
the reach Of effort and beyond recla-
nation. Mr.. Moody started his great
Sunday school in Chicago by brsvely
going and asking a dissolute saloon
keeper for his children that he might
teach them Of Jesus. Young Moody
got them. Because miser hangs on
to bis gold with death grip Is no req.
son why you and should not 90 and
move his heart to use some Of that
gold for mission of mercy.
Esther's Common Sense.
Dark and forbidding as were her sur
roundings, there were two or three
bright lines in this oriental. historical
picture which show that though Queen
Esther's dangers might seem to be In
surmountnble. yet In truth they were
not. Queen Esther won her mighty
victory for the salvation Of the He
brew race BY the use Of plain. prac
teal common sense. which In this agt
would be called brilliant Christian
stratagem. The queen was not fool
She was not Que Of those miserable
shrews. always going around with
mussed hair and shoes run down al
the heels. with her dresses III fittinl
and caught together with pins. Sht
was not one Of those women who wield
sharp tongue, priding herself upOi
the fact that she Ia always speakin,
the truth. because she IL always say
ing a lot Of disagreeable things. Som'
women may he good women. but the.
are very coarse and stupid and i'm
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LACES AND NECKWEAR.

polite and repulsive women. There are
women who are good and irrcproa cha
bic in character whose temper is 81
bad and whose tongues are so vitriolic
that some good men would soouer
make a pillow out of porcupine quilts
and go to sleep upon a mattress OF
Canada thistles than to associate with
them. Their tongues may be as BIT
ter as gall. Queen Esther never prid-
cd herself upon her sharp tongue. Like
Sarah. the wife of Abraham she knew
that il was no disgrace for a woman TO
be fair to look upon. Thus as a woman
of great common sense she tried TO do
her work with sweet looks and gentle
words and not with verbal slcdge ham
hurricane.
How as n beautiful woman of great
common sense did Queen Esther win
her brilliant victory In the first place,
she goes to the king and asks a> an
especial favor that he. with his con
temptible and dishonorahle prime min
lister. wicked Hannah by name. would
come and take dinner some night in her
royal palace. Though this WAS against
the law, yet the king consented Then
mcthinks | can see this beautiful wo
man preparing for her plan of battle.
She puts on her most attractive robes.
She has her hairdrcSscr iutwine her
black locks in the way most becoming
to her dark Hebrew fcntureS. She
has the dining room fragrant with
flowers and adorned with the most
beautiful of tapestries. She has the
banquet table laden with the choicest
Of delicacies And while the guests are
eating and the musicians are playing
this beautiful queen picks up one or
her stringed instruments, and softly
the notes are sounded. Then she be-
gins to sing an old love song, and the
king. enrapturcd with her beauty
looks at her in tender and passionate
affection She drops her eyes and
with quivering voice and heavinG
breast eloquently tells the story OF
her life and how Hannah wanted to
Stay her people She pnvcs the way
for the victory by what we may call
today Christian strategy.
When you and ! want to win our vie
tories for Christ. do We do as Queen
Esther did? DO we use christian STRAIT
egy! DO we. to use a vulgar term. try
to "rub" people the right way? DO we
go to them teudcrly, lovingly. gently
and yet firmly and Try to lead them II
Christ. rs Queen Esther paved the way
in an oriental banquet hail for the res
cue Of her people:
Faith In God.
But, though Queen Esther went into
this battle for her people determined
to use Christian strntagem, yet this,
after All, was only the secondary part
OF her strength Her great strength
came from the fact that she. first and
last and all the time. was depending
upon the God of Abraham, Isaac and
Jacob, the God Of her people This
beautiful queen had been brought mn
In a religious atmosphere, Her foster
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touch Of Handel can be more over
whelming than the simple story Of this
brave Persian queen az recorded In
the Bible. Let me draw for you few
plain, practical lessons from a part
of II.
This heroic resolution. in the nrst
place. was made by woman. This
hay seem to some n very insignificant
statement 10 make. But want to tell
you that in the days OF King Ahasue-
rus any woman who dared form such
resolution as Queen Esther made
was literally taking her life in her
hands. With one act she was defyipg
Iall the traditions of ths centuries In
reference to the position of woman.
The wife Of an eastern monarch WINS
not suffered to he the companion, the
ro-op"rator, me sharcr, Ut her hus-
bands responsibilities. as your moth
er was Of the cares OF your father. She
was looked upon as mere playthinR
toy. u human doll, a pet puppet. the
chief end Of whose existence was to
humOr tho whms Of her husband.
When he called she was tn come.
When he said "G0." she was to 20.
But she was not to 20 or to come un
less he gave the command. And, fur
thermore. In the far east. In the time
Ut Ahasuerus. not only did q husband
look upon his wife as a mere play
thing. but II he 90 w!lhed he might
even compel her to honor or dishonor
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Ladies or the MaccdDo6S COIIlOT- row afternoon at 3 o'clock at the hall. There will be installation and initiation work, and the state
 Seed potatoes, onion sets and garden seeds at Bowen's Cash Store. 6lDt1
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 The very latest in white wasting can De found at the Wolff Goldman Mere. Co.
 organizer will be present. After the business session supper will be given, and all members are urged to attend.
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