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Title: Library of the world's best literature, ancient and modern
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: Warner, Charles Dudley, 1829-1900 Mabie, Hamilton Wright, 1846-1916 Runkle, Lucia Isabella (Gilbert), 1844-
Subjects: Literature Literature
Publisher: New York : J.A. Hill & Company
Contributing Library: Brigham Young University Hawaii, Joseph F. Smith Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Consortium of Church Libraries and Archives

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hold. Jonah, anxious to avoid a disagreeable mission, is never-
theless forced to go to Nineveh, and there becomes the occasion of
the announcement of a religious truth of primary significance,—
namely, that God cares no less for Nineveh than for Jerusalem. The
skill with which the narrative in Esther is constructed has always
excited admiration. The splendid royal banquet — the refusal of
Queen Vashti to make herself a spectacle to the drunken guests —
her deposition by the offended despot, and his determination to choose
another queen — the appearance of the Jewess Esther, whose nation-
ality has been carefully concealed by her guardian Mordecai — the
successive trials of the inmates of the harem, and the selection of
Esther to be Queen — all this is an astounding whirligig of fortune.
But this is only preparatory to the main event. The sturdy Morde-
cai refuses to do reverence to the Kings haughty favorite Hainan,
who, exasperated by his persistent contempt, resolves to extirpate the
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"And Ruth, the Moabitessfair,"
Among the gleaners stooping there"
From a Painting by A. Calanel

OLD TESTAMENT AND JEWISH APOCRYPHA 10781
Jewish population of Persia, and procures a royal decree to that
effect. The Jews are in despair. Mordecai sends word to Esther
that she must go to the King (which to do unbidden is a crime) and
intercede; he adds that otherwise she herself will not escape the
general fate. She finally plucks courage from despair, goes, is gra-
ciously received, and invites the King and Haman to a banquet that
day. At that banquet she invites them to another next day, when
she will make her request. Haman, elated, listens to the advice of
his wife and his friends, and prepares a lofty post on which Mordecai
is to be impaled. That night the King, unable to sleep, listens to an
account, in the court record, of a good deed of Mordecai, hitherto
unrewarded. Who is without ? he asks. The answer is: Haman (who
had come to arrange the impalement of his enemy). He is sum-
moned, enters, is asked what should be done to the man whom the
King delights to honor.

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