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The Brussels Post, 1899-10-12, Page 6THE BRUSSELS POST. THE RETREAT OF JOSHUA REV. DR. TALMAGE DRAWS SOME LESSONS FROM IT. ,_.--- Sometimes the Best Thing to Do Is to Run—Your Retreat Is Your Victory—Days of Victory for the Church— The Triumph of the Wicked Is Short—Some Christians Do Not Take Good Aim, Hence Their Attack Amounts t0 Nothing. A despatch from Washington, says: l flight is your advance. Your retreat —Rev. Dr. Talmage ,preached from the l is your victory. following text:—"Then ye shall rise up A SPOONi UL Oli' BRANDY from the ambush and seize upon the taken for medicinal purposes by a city:"—Joshua viii. 7. man who twenty years before had been reformed from drunkenness hurled in - Two weeks ago on Sabbath evening, to inebriety and the grave one of the best friends I ever had. Your retreat is your victory. Here is a converted lntaoer. fife xs so strong now in his faith in the t.os- pel he says be can read anything. "What are you reading? Bolingbroke? Theodore Parker? Andrew Jackson Davis's Tracts 1 Swedenborg's Dreams? Tyndall's Glasgow Univer- sity Address?" Drop theist and run. You will be an infidel before you die unless you quit that. These men of Ai will be too moth fon you. Turn your back on the rank and file of , un- belief. Fly before they cut you with their swords, and transfix you with with my family around me, we were talking over the steed of the text. In the wide open eyes, and the quick in- terrogations, and the blanched cheeks, I realized what a thrilling drama it was. There is the old city, shorter by name than any other city in the ages, spelled with two letters — A -i, Ai, Joshua and his men want to take it. How to do ib is the question. On a former occasion, in a straightforward face -to -fano fight, they had been deal feated; but now they are going to take it by ambuscade. General Joshua heel their javelins. There ars people in this audience two divisions in his army .� the one to -day who have been well-nigh ruin - division the battle -worn commander ed becuse they risked a fool -hardy ex - will lead himself; the other division he pedition in the presence of mighty and the sends off to encamp in an ambush on overwhelming temptations, and the west side of the city of Ai. No mast of Ai made a morning meal of them, Your retreat is your victory. torches, no lanterns, no sound of heavy So, also, there is such a thing as vic- torious retreat for the Church. Thou- sands of times the kingdom of Christ has seemed to fall back. The days of retreat for the Church were days of victory. The Pilgrim Fathers felt back tram the other side of the sea to Plymouth Rock, but now are marshalling a eon- tinent for the Christiauization of the world. The Church of Christ falling bath from Piedmont, falling back from the Rue St. Jacques, falling back from St. Denis, falling back from the Wur- temburg Castle, failing back from the Brussels market -place, yet all the time triumphing. Notwithstanding all the shocking reverses which the Church of Christ has suffered, what do we see to -day? Three thousand missionaries of the cross 00 heathen ground. Sixty thousand ministers 02 Jesus Christ in this land. At least TWENTY-FIVE ki ILLIONS of Christians on the earth. All nations today kindling in a blaze of revival. Falling beak, yet advancing, until the old Wesleyan hymn will prove true: " The lion of Judah shall break tbe chain, And give us the victory again and again." battalions; but thirty thousand swar- thy warriors moving in silence, speak - Ing only in a whisper; no clicking of swords against shields, lest the watch- men of Al diseovee it and the strata- gem be a failure. If a roystering soldier in the Israelitish army forgets himself, all along the line the word is 'sin! Joshua takes the other division the one with which he is to march, and puts it on the north side of the city of Ai, and then spends the night in re- connoitering in the valley. There be is, thinking over the fortunes of the coming day, with something of the feelings of Wellington the night be- fore Waterloo, There he stands in the night and says to himself. "Yonder is the division in ambush on the west side of Ai. Here is the division in ambush on the west side of Ai. Here is the division, I have under my espeofal command, on the north side of Ai. There is the old city slumbering in its sin. To -morrow will be the battle. Look! The morn- ing already begins to tip the hills." The military officers of Ai look out in the morning very early, and while they do not see the divisions fn am- bush they behold the other division of Joshua, and the cry "To arms 1" rings through all the streets oft the old town tied every sword, whether hacked and bent, or newly welded, is brought out, and all the inhabitants of the city of Ai pear through the gates, an infuri- ate torrent, and their cry is: "Come,, we'll make quick work with Joshua and his troops!" No sooner had these people of Ai come out against the troops of Joshua than Joshua gave euch a command as he seldom gave: "Fall back 1" .Why, they could not believe their own ears. es Joshua's courage failing him? "Fall back!" The retreat fs beaten and THE ISRAELITES ARE FLYING, throwing blankets and canteens on every side. And yen ought to hear the soldiers of Ai cheer, and cheer, and cheer. But they huzza too soon. The men lying in ambush are straining their vision to get soma signah from Joshua that they may know what time to drop upon the city. Joshua takes his burnished spear, glittering in the son like a shaft of doom, end points it toward the arty; and when the men up yonder in the ambush see it, with hawk -like swoop they drop ori stab of parwithout stroke of take the city answord put it to the torch. So much for the divi- e4oa that was in ambush. How about the division that was more espeoially under Joshua's com- mate? No sooner does Joshua stop in the fligbt, than all his, men stop with him, and as he wheels they wheel, for in a voioe of thunder that shook axe earth, he cried, "Halt 1" One strong arm damming back a torrent of flying troops. And then, as he points his spear through the golden light toward that fated city, his troops know that they are to start for it. What a scene it was when, the divi- Sion in ambush that had taken the city marched down against the men tot Ai on the the side, and, the strops under anthem doubled up their enem- ies from the other side, and the men of Ai wee caught between these two hiurricaaes of ,Israelitish courage, thrust before and behind, stabbed in But there is a more marked illustra- tion of victorious retreat in the life of our Joshua, the Jesus of the ages. First falling back from an appalling height to an appalling depth, falling from celestial hills to terrestrial val- leys, from throne to manger ; yet that did not seem to suffice Him as a re- treat. Falling back still further, from Bethlehem to Nazareth, back from Nazareth to Jerusalem, beak from Jer- usalem: to Golgotha, back from Golgo- tha to the mausoleum in the rook, back down over the precipices of perdition, until Ile walked amid the caverns of the eternal oaptives, and drank of the wine of the wrath of Almighty God amid the Ahabs, and the Jezebels, and the Belsbazzara, 0, men of the pulpit and men of the pew, whys tell only ealf of the story ? Christ's descent from heaven to earth does not measure half the distance. It was from glory to perdition. He descended into hell. All the records of earthly retreat are nothing as compared with this fall- ing back. Santa Anna, with the frag- ments of his army flying over the plateaux of Maxim, and Napoleon, and his army retreating from Moscow in- to the awful snows of Russia, are not worthy, to be mentioned with this re- treat, when all the powers of darkness seemed to be pursuing Christ as He fell back, until the body of Him who came to do such wonderful things lay pulseless and stripped. Methinks that the city of Ai was not so emptied of its inhabitants, when they went to pursue Joshua, as perdition was emp- tied of devils when they started for the pursuit of Christ, and He fell back and back, down lower, down lower, ebasm below chasm, pit below pit, un- til He seemed to atrike the bottom of objurgation and scorn, and torture. 0, the long, loud jubilant shout of ball at 'the defeat of the Lord God Al- mighty I But let not the powers of darkness rejoice quite so soon, Do you hear that disturbance in the tomb of Arimathea? I hear the sheet rend- ing, What means that atone burled down the side of the hill? Who is this coming out ? Push Him bank 1 The dead must stalk in this open sunlight l 01 it is our Joshua. LET HIM COME OUT, Re comes forth and starts for the city. He takes the spear of the Roman guard and .points that way. Church Militant marches up on one side and Church Triumphant marches down on the oth- er side, and the powers of darkness being caught between these ranks of celestial and terrestrial valour, noth- ing is left of them save just enough breast and back, ground between the to illustrate the direful overthrow of upper and the nether millstones 02 On and our be al th eternal victory, God's indignation, Woe to the city of On Hie hall all the crowns, In Hit y bend be all the ria !mar His feet 1.i Cheer for the triumphs of be all the Alperin hearts; and here, Israel I Lord is on• Lese 01 th%fa. son the second; The triumph of the wicked is short. Did you ever see an army in a panic? There is no- thing so uncontroliable. 22 you had stoocl at Long Bridge, at Washington, during the opening of our unfortunate war, you would know what it is to see an army run. And when those than of Ai looked out and saw the men of Ai upon the men of Joshua. Your of Joshua in a stemmede,they expect- orelysafoty is to get away from them, them easy Work. They would .s. 0, Your dissipating companions will some g as the equinox the leaves. , around for. your overthrow. Run for me gleeful ando jubilant descent• h the .our life 1 hall beak I' Fall men of Aupon the mon of Joshua! o 1 back But their exhilaration was brief, for from the drinking saloon. Fall back the fids of battle turned, and thaee from d;sslpatiag companionship, rail quondam con' back froth the wine party, go q conquerors loft their miser - back able carcasses iu oho wilderness of i, Lesson Life first: There is such a thing as viotorious retreat, Joshua falling back was the first chapter i i s ec85st ( i its u ss a hos agement, and there are times in your life when the best thing you can do is to run. You were once he victim et strong drink. The �ilem'iJohn and the decanter were your fierce foes, 'They earn dews upon you with greater fury than the man OCT, 12, 1899 13etbaven, So it always is. The tri- umph of the wickeit is short. You made twenty thousand dollars at the gaming -table, Do you expect to keep It? You will die in the poorhouse. You made your fortune by iniquitous traffic. Do you expect to keep it ? Your money will scatter, or it will stay long enough to curse your 'still - (Iran after you are dead. Call over the roll of bad man who prospered, and see how short was their prosrerity. For awhile, like the, man of Al, they went. from conquest to conquest; but after awhile disaster rolled back upon them, and they were divided into three parts; misfortune took their property, the grave took their body, and the lost world took their souls. I am always interested in tbebuilding of theatres, and In the building of dissipating ea- lons. I like to have them built of the best granite, to have tbe rooms made large, and to have tbe pillars made very firm. God is going to con- quer them, and they will be TURNED INTO CHURCHES, They ore going to change hands—these stores in which fraudulent men do business. These splendid banking in- stitutions, where the president and the cashier put all their property In their wives' bands and then fail for two hundred million of dollars—all these institutions are to become tbe places where honest Christian men do busi- ness. How long will it take your boys to gel through your ill-gotten gains? Tile wicked do not live out half their days. For awhile they swagger and strut, and make a great splash in the newspapers ; but after awhile it all gdwindlesraph:— down into a brief para - "Died, suddenly, September 5th, 1899, at thirty-five years of age. Relatives and friends of the family are invited to attend the funeral on Wednesday, at two o'clock, from his late residence, on Madison -square," Some of them jumped off tbe docks. Some of them took prussic acid. Some of them fell under the snap of a Der- ringer pistol. Some of them spent their last days in a lunatic asylum. Where is Oakes Ames, the despoiler of publio men, of Credit Mobilter in- famy? Where are Ketcham and Swart - out, absconding swindlers? Where is James Fisk, this libertine? Where is John Wilkes Booth, the assassin? and all the other misdemeanants? They do not live out half tbeir days. Dia- embogue, 0 world of darkness i Come up, your locks dripping with eternal fire, Hildebrand, and Henry IL, and Robespierre, and with blistering and blasphemy and ashen lips hiss out: Ths triumph of the wicked is short I" Alas! for the men of Ai, when Jos- hua stretches out his spear toward the city. Lesson the third: How much may be accomplished by lying in ambush far opportunities. Are you hypercritical of Joshua's manoeuvre? Do you say that it was cheating for him to take that city by ambuscade? I answer if the war was right, then Joshua was right in his stratagem. He vio- lated no flag of truce. HE BROKE NO TREATY, but by a lawful ambuscade captured the oily of Ai. 0 that we all knew how to lie in ambush for opportunities to serve God. The bast opportunities do not lie an the surface, but are secreted; by tact, by stratagem, by Christian ambuscade, you may take almost any matte of sin for, Christ. Come up to- ward mac with a regular besiegement of argument and yoe will be defeat- ed; but just wait until the dor of their hearts us sot ajar, or they are off their guard, or their severe caution leeway from home, and then drop on them from a Christian ambuscade, There has been many a man up to'hts chin in scientific portfolios which proved there was no Christ and no Divine revelation, his pen a seinetar flung into the heart of theological op- ponents, who, nevertheless, has been discomfited and captured far God by some little three-year-old child who has got up and put her snowy arms around his sinewy neck, and said: "Papa, why don't you love Jesus?" 0, make a flank movement; steal a mareh on the devil. Cheat that man into heaven. A five -dollar treatise that will stand all the laws of homile- tics may fail to do that which a penny tract of Christian entreaty may ac- eomplish. 0 for more Christiana in ambuscade, not lying in idleness, but waiting for a quick spring, waiting un. tit just the righb time comes. Do not talk to a man about the vanity oftbis world on the day, when be has bought gold at "la," and is going to sell it at "15," but talk tc him about the van- ity of the world on the day when he has bought at "15," and is compelled to sell it at "12." Do not rub a mane disposition the wrong way. Dn not take the imperative mood ween the subjunctive mood will do just as well, Do nut talk In perfervid style to a Phlegmatic, nor try to tickle 'a Leiria l,emperament with an icicle, You can take any man for Obrist if you know how to get at him, Do not send word to him that to mgrrow. at ten o'ciook you Drgpose to open your batteries upon him, but comet on him by a skit - Put, persevering, God -directed embus- oakie, , Lesson the fourth; The importamee of taking good aim. THERE IS JOSHUA, but how are than people in ambusb up yonder to kiiow when they are t0 drop on the elty, and bow are these men around Joshua to know when they are to stop their flight and advance, There must be same signal—a signal to stop the one division and to start the other, Jtahue, with a spear, ail which were ordinarily hung the colour which were ordinarily hung the colour of battle, points toward the city. He stands in Beth a conspicuous position„ and there is so much of the morning light dripping from that spear -tip, that ail around the horizon they see it. 11 was as mune as to say: "There 10 the City. Take it, Take it now, Roll ldawn frolm the west aide, Surge up from the north side, It is ours, the city of Ai." God knows, and We know, that a great deal of Christian attack aan'ounts t0 nothing, simply because we db not take good aim. Nobody knows, we do not know ourselves, which point we want to take, when Wes ought to matte up our allude what God will have irsi to do, and point our spear in that threaten, and then hurl, our body, mind, soul time, eternity at that one target, In our pulpits, sad pews, Sunday -schools, and prayer - meetings, we Want to got a reputation for saying pretty ,hinge, and So We point our spear toward the fl`otvii •s; Or we wart* a relettethea for nays te sublime things, and we point Our spear toward the stars; or we want to get a reputation for historical' knowledgg'e, and we point our spear toward the past; or we want to get Et reputation for great: liberality, so wo swing our War all around, and it strikes all points of the horizon, and you can make mutt of it whatever you please; while there is the old world, proud re- bellions, and armed against all righte- ousness; and instead of our running any further away frame its pursuit we ought to turn around, plant our foot in the strength of the eternal. God, lift the old Gross, anti point It in the direc- tion of the world s conquest, till the redeemed of earth, marching; up from one side, and the glcrifiea of !leaven marching down from the other side, the last battlement of sin is ocanpol- led to swing otos the streamers of Im- manuel!. 0, Church of God, TARE AIM AND CONQUER, I have heard it said: "Look out for a man' who' boa only one idea ; he is ir- ressistible." I say, look out for the Church et Christ which has one idea, and that a determination fox soul - saving, I believe God would strike me dean. if I dared to point the spear in any other direction. 0 for some of the courage and enthusiasm of Joshua! He flung two armies from the tip of that spear. Coming to you at the close of our Summer vacation, and starting again in the season of work, I wish I could sound the tocsin of a great cam- paign. It was slide/ for us to rest unless it was to get stronger muscle, and fresher brain, and purer heart for God's work. I feel on my head this morning the hands of Christ in a new ordination. 0, my people, do you not feel the same omnipotent, pres- sure? There is a work for all our Churches. 0 that we might stand up side by side and point the spear toward the pity! It ought to be taken; it will be taken. Let lie decide upon the work which we, as Christian Churches, have to do, and in the strength ofgGod go to work and da it. , I believe that Lala year will be the most stupendous year that heaven ever saw. The nations are quaking now with the coming of God. It will be a year of successes for the men of Joshlna, but of doom for the men of Ai. . You put your ear to the{ rail traok and you can hear the train com- ing miles away; so I to -day pat my ear to the ground, anal I hear the thundering on of the Iightning train of God's meroies and judgments. THE MERCY OF GOD is first to be tried upon, this nation. It will be preached in the pulpits, in the- atres, on the streets, everywhere. Peo- oitheoil be invited to Gospel, and. the story, and t the ethe song, and the prayer will be "mercy." But suppose they do not accept the offer of mercy—what then? Then God will Dome with His judgments, and the grasshoppers will eat the crops, and the freshets will devastate the valleys, and the defalcations will swallow the money markets, and the fires will burn cities into ashes, and the earth will quake from pole to pole. Year of mer- cies and of judgments. Year 02 in- vitation and of warning. Year of jubilee and of woe. Which side are you going to be on? With the men of Ai or the man of Joshua? Pass over this autumnal Sabbath into the ranks of Israel, , I would clap my hands, at the joy of your coming. You have a chancepoor the worldocome, wiithoutrJed sus.You cannot stand what is to come upon you and upon the world unless you have the pardon, and the comfort, and the help of Christ, Come over. On this side is your happiness and safety; on the other side disquietude and des- pair. Eternal defeat to the men of Ail Eternal victory to the men of Joshua! 1v BRITAIN WANTS CANADIANS. The Force Would be Accepted with Sinter - est Cratltude. A despatch from. London says:— Queensland and New Zealand have taken precedence of Canada in coming to the aid of the,idmpire in South Af- rica. Their definite and official Gov- esnment offers of 200 troops in the case of Queensland and 250 in the case of Now Zealand •have been officially accepted by the Imiperial Government. The troops are to be fully equipped and at the disposal of the British comman- der in Capt Town by October 31st, .To this extent Canada seome to have been forestalled by Australasia in her proud position aa pioneer of the Em- pire. 500 TROOPS WOULD BE ACCEPTED. ,As cabled on Tuesdays the Canadian Government hes made no formal offer yet, but has, in a letter from Sir Wil- frid Laurier to Hon. 14Ir. Chamberlain, practically invited euggestione. The original idea was a force of 1,000 from Canada. The Canadian Government has now, however, been advised that should Canada desire to place at the disposal of the British comnnander at Cape Town by October 3l four fighting units numbering 509 in all, infantry preferred, the Imperial Government will accept the offer with the sincerest gratitude, and the fullest appreciation of the high Imlperial aims diotating the proposal. In official circles generally the prac- tical solidarity of the Empire when the Empire's interests aro at stake is re- garded as of the highest significance in face of the Empire's enemies all the world over. OFFICERED BY ONE MAJOR. Tlab proposal is that these, 500 Cana-. diens should be officered by one major, with Dapteins and subalterns. The de- sire in so limiting the numbers is to ensure that each colonial unit shall have what a soldier always prays for, the best possible show It the fighting line, iA despatch from Perth, capital of West Australia, announces that the Government of that colony, has doid- ed tb despatch a West Australian con- tingent to the Cape. LAKE OF 1301L1N0 MUD. Near Grobogana, Java, there is a take of boiling mud about two miles 10 circumference. ,Cmmeese columns of steaming mud are eonstantly tris- ing and descending. BRITAIN AND Baffin THE NAVAL BRIGADE HAS ARRIV- ED AT LADYSMITH. Ornish Troops Glassing on the Moller to itepoi the Expected lavnslmt — Cen, Butler Bilis the Queen /ioo,L nye, Ai despatch to the London Daily News from Bloemfontein says that all the bsrghere of .the Orange Free State have been ecmmandeereii and mxbllized in different puree of the Republic, They have been ordered to act strictly an the defensive, They will probably, bo kept six miles from the border 10 order to prevent colli- sions with the Bxitish. It is asserted alt Mafeking, on reli- able authority, that the buxghershave been strictly pnjotned not to cross the western frontier 'or to interfere with civilians, but, to resist the pa,ssage of au armed force., A oorreepondent at Ladyamlth, Na- tal, cables:—" The Fifth Lancers and a, naval' brigade, from Durban have, ar- rived here, and afire encamped near the railway." General Slr Redvers Buller arrived at Balmoral castle on 'Wednesday night as: the guest of Queen Victoria to bid her Majesty'ta;rewettl on his departure for South Africa, A despatch from Joh5nneeburg re- ports that Kathie are raiding the business planes send houses in the East Rand. The whiten fired on them. A speoial force of police has been de- sputohed to disperse the raiders. 5,000 RESERVES TO BE CALLED OUT While there is ate diminution in the flood of .despatches frcm South Africa recording the military preparation and movement's :MS both sides, with all kinds of aocuraite and inaccurate ru- mours and speculations, the real situa- tion remains unchanged. It is expected that 5,000 reserves will be called out on Thursday, and that an army corps will be mobiliz- ed on the loth or the 201E of the month. • In, the !meantime it is interesting to note that neither side shows anxiety to precipitate t conflict, but is rather inclined to give opportunity for the play of peace influence. INDIAN TROOPS ARRIVE. The Pietei maritzburg correspondent of the T:mis confirms the report that enough Indian troops have arrived to make the military situation secure, and says the a,uthorities declare further disclosures regarding military move- mxnts ehould be suppressed, as valu- able lnfoimation has already leaked to the Boers through the London news- papers. A despatch to the Times from Lo- batsi, near Mafeking, says it is a re- markable fact that the natives there declare they will not fight for the Transvaal, but will, in preference, cross the border, because the Boers are too severe, and are always punishing them, TO DESTROY THE BRIDGE, The correspondent of the Standard at Beaufort, West Rand, says fugitives who have arrived there report that forty teas of dynamite have been laid down for the destruction of the rail- way bridge over the Orange river at Nobals Point, a frontier station be- tween Cape Colony and the Free State. KRUGER WANTS TO FIGHT. A special despatch from Pretoria says that President Kruger expresses himself strongly on being prevented by the Executive from: going to the front. He is reported, to have said:— "Some people say I am the cause of the present troable, and I want to take my share of the' fighting with my people." The same despatch, announ- ces that Commandent-General Jou- bert's wife has started to join her hus- band on the border, Heavy rains have _fallen, and the Sandspruit river is flooded. BOER ARMY LEADERS UNDECIDED A despatch from Voiksrust dated Wedeesdayl says a council of war was held to -day, Commander -General Joa- bert• presiding, and the oommandants of all the different commandeers be- ing present. The conference was short and indeoisive. It is understood that no move will be made fox, a couple bf days, Most of the British residents have gone to Natal Increased: activity is being shown at Woolwich, and it 'ie alleged that pro- vision is being made there to send sup- plies for two army' corps. 'Your hunt dred tons of material and munitions of war have already been shipped tor Attlee. A Johannesburg despatch says:— "The Government has turned over the Ferreira mine to the idireetors on con- dition that work is to proceed. The Steck Exchange is closed." LAW IN THE TRANSVAAL. An unconfirmed report says that martial law has been proclaimed in the Transvaal. 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It goee o the real source of trouble direct, nd the siok always feel its marvel- ous sustaining and restorative power t once, on the very first day of its eeDeadman, h 2 t s e n d t 1 THE SUNDAY SCHOOL INTERNATIOAL LESNSON, OCT. 16. erne " Esther Pleading for the People:' DOL. 8, 33, 15.17. golden 'text. Pont, 37. 3. PRACTICAL NOTES. Verse 9. Esther spake yet again. Haman had been overthrown, his pro- perty had been given to Esther, his dignities bad been given to Mordecai, but there was still a difficulty. ;The laws of the Medea and Persians must not be altered, and the decree for the destruction of the Jews was still in force, Fell down at his Poet, and besought hi,m with tears. We need not wonder at the intense passion of Esther, for although elle was In high favor with Ahasuerus, she was really, with all her countrymen and women, under sentence of death. Be- sides, the king was so whimsical and so irresponsible ,bat there was no security how long his favor might lost, 4. The king bold out the golden scep- ter. This was the recognized sign of royal favor. The scepter was "along, tapering staff," Woman's tears have always been a strong argument, 5, Let it be written to reverse the letters devised by Raman. Esther was a woman and a Jew, and ill is not.like- ly that she knew much concerning Pox - slat law, but she was asking what the king himself could not grant—Che royal degree could not be legally re- versed, 0, How can I endure to sae the de- struction of my kindred. With great cleverness she disregards the danger to her own life and dos not even ne- edy Mordecai. 7. Then .the king Ahasuerus said. 13e begins by showing at once his kind - begins by showing at once bis kind- ly feeling toward Esther and Morde- cai, and his inability to do mere. 8. Write ye ciao for the Jews, NS it liketh you, in the king's name. As 1t he said, "1 can prohibited by law, front reversing my own decree, but here i4 my ring and here is my authority( do you devise any counter-measure that you ;like." A shabbier, more cow ardly retreat was never made, 9-14. The plan on which Mordecai and Esther agreed was td notify the Jewel everywhere to stand in self-defense and when victorious to take posessioxb of the gods of those who attacked them. 15. Mordecai went out from the pre, sauce of the king in royal apparel, He had been summoned to the king's pre- sence because of the honor that Ahasu., erus proposed to confer upon him in recognition of his discovery of the plot against the king's life. He had been invested with the insignia of Haman's office. and clothed with the authority of chief minister. He now goes forth to attend to hie official duties. Blue and white. . gold. . fine linen and purple. Purple and white, and blue and white, seem to have been the royal colors. The crown of gold was a coronet, aaign of prince- ly station. The fine linen was the most famous texture of ancient days, and its fineness that/ of our modern silk, The city of Shushan rejoiced and was glad. That teeny Jews Were thane it is hardly necessary to goy, for Jews have always flocked to oath- s. It was probably the seat of civi- lization and, order, as well as c£ royal ntajasly, and the decree made at :Ha - man's suggestion had never been pop- ular there. See nhap, 3, 15. 10, Light Happiness. 17. A feast; and a good any. The first of a long linty of exyltent nation- al patriotic anniversaries. Many of the people of the land became Jews. Not becauee they believed in God, bet cause the fear of the Jews fell up- on than. A mast cowardly and wick- ed act on their part, but an act ,whish displayed, nevertheless, the ,great woxlt which God had wrought on, their la half. PB.IMA FAq Ito EVIDIDNCH. So the young lady engaged you a2 once when yell acid you had serve,. With me f Yee, she will that anygirl who eo stand you three months Mst he air angel.