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The Dramatic End OF Esther's
Strategy That Cost Hannah His life

ilaman naturally thought that he was the man 10 hs
honored and he replied. heaping upon himself as he
thought, great honors.
Imagine the CONSERVATION of Haman when the King
said to him Take the apparel and the horse as ho,
ISst SAID and do even to Mordecai the lew that
thou hast spoken " '
But the worst was still to come Haman had to do
wat ne was told and after ne had completed his task
ne went 10 MS nome mourning the disgrace that he
had been Obliged 10 suffer But soon he had n h,sta
10 the Queens banquet on the second day
II was at this second banquet that the King arain
asked tSther what was her request, and then the
queen replied Let my life be given at my petition
my people to be destroyed to be slain and to perish
Ihen the King was angry and he said: who is he
do so?" 'u III NO hearl 10
:, And Esther replied: The adversary and enemy /,
this wicked Haman." Haman was of course very mnch
aIaio ana the King was SO that he strobe from
the palace into the garden in his wrath Hannah. as
coon as the hing had gone out, tried to beseech the
Queen to save him. lie even fell on the couch where
she sat in his agony OF fear. The King Abasuerus 70
turning accused Hannah OF trying TO take his Queen
command ~ ~ 's
81 aaToonah one Of the kings chambcrains said be-
lore the King. Behold, also the gaows ffty cubita
nlgh which Hannah had made for Mordccai who had
SPOKEN good for the king standeh in the house OF
iarlin' And the Bible adds so they handed Hannah
on the gallows that he had prepared for Mordccai
Then was the king pacified'
Since that day the Feast of Purim socalcd because
IOls 'pur) were cast to fix the day. or the Feast OF
Esther is celebrated by the Jews all tho world over
TINS year happening to fall February 2S and being
can cis but that this vase given Eerxes to com.
memorate the saving OF his Queen Esther?
Inc hnling OF this vase is OF those miracles of
lhoaern discovery for which no account The
ancient capital of Persia, Susa. excavatcd some
years ago by Dieulafoy and his wife, yet nothing OF
nearly so great human interest brought TO light
even though the palace uncovcred--the very
palace where Herxes and Esther sat- and where oil
thls great drama was acted out Here is support OF
lhe 3oiica! narrative far more convincing than the
report OF Herodotus that Xerxes held feast IN the
third year or his reign to deliberate against
Grcece, ~hlcl corresponds with the statement In
Esther I, 3. 1t in the seventh year of his reign
after his return from Ceece. that Esther declared
Queen and it in the twelfth year his reign that
the Jews we're saved as related in the Bible.
II llcrodotus checks some of the dates for us and
Deulaoy has given back TO the world that wonderful
palace with its inner court where Ahasuerus sat upon
his golden throne, beneath the canopy recev
Ing Esther with wave OF the golden sccpre which she
touched in thaDkfuness. the greatest and most con-
vincng proof of the actually all this little onyx
which tho OF King Xerxes written four
times over in different tongues
TO scholars the enormous Importance
for the fixing OF the of the monarch and it. will
always be mentioned hereafter in the breath with