Even sorrow and peril as they enrich and mellow the nature, enhance the power to help and bless. Power and opportunity measure obligation. THAT ONE REASON NOT ONLY FOR GIFTS OF PLACE AND FORTUNE, BUT FOE EXPERIENCES OF TROUBLE ALSO, MUST BE THAT WE MAY HELP OTHERS IN THEIR PERILS. The palace may be a prison to its inmate, the hut cannot exclude the approaches of a grief.
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THAT IN NEITHER PLACE NOR FORTUNE HAS ANY ONE SECURITY AGAINST TRIAL AND DANGER. Sermons by Monday Club.The spectacle presented reminds us. God interposed to soften the heart of the king, as well as to give him a sleepless night, perhaps from a disturbed conscience. Into the den of ]ions Daniel, the king's favourite, was cast, and to the slaughter Esther, though queen, would have been, by ruthless decree, when the time was come but prayer, fasting, decision, saved her. He doubtless sought to devise means of maintaining the law and yet evading its import. Remember how Darius was sore displeased with himself, and set his heart on Daniel to deliver him, and laboured to the going down of the sun to deliver him. The decrees of a Persian monarch were unalterable. How great her devotion! "If I perish, I perish!" She would certainly have perished if she had not gone in to the king. Great her decision of character! She will not let the opportunity for helping others pass, and then strive to atone for her neglect by useless regrets. ESTHER'S DECISION TO DARE ANYTHING FOR THE SAKE OF OTHERS. This was a remarkable thing, remembering that these maidens belonged to an Oriental and pagan court. Her maidens are so under her influence that she knows that they all will be ready to join in the observance of fasting and in offering prayer to the God of Israel. She is ready to share that which she enjoins on others.
She feels her need of the prayers of others. She has faith not only in her own prayers, but in those of others. Hastings Go, gather together all the Jews that are present in Shushan, and fast ye for me, etc. Prayer Accompanied by Appropriate Use of Meansį.
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