834 king, and their own interests in secur ing every comfort wealth can lavish on them. When we find in this hothouse cf narcotics a strong, unselfish woman such as Esther, conquering almost in superable temptations, choosing a course of terrible danger for the saae of her oppressed people, we can echo the admiration of the Jews for their national heroine.—Adeney. Fast ye for me. She undertook the task. She trembles for what may come. Sleep less hours are spent. She risks all at one step and her one dependence is upon Jehovah. What a lesson for all in authority, yes, and for us all!— Cum- ming. 5.1. Esther stood in the inner court. If we have power with God in prayer, we shall find favor with man. The real battle is won in the secret place. In the open we press the victory we have already won.— Bounds. A Brave Young Queen. Esther 4 10 -5:3. Memory Verse.— “ God is my helper.” Psalm 54:4. Approach.—How many like to hear about people who are brave? Now I am going to tell you a story about a brave boy without giving his name, and if any of you know his BEGINNERS name you may raise AND PRIMARY your hand. A long Mabel 1*. Merrill time ago some heathen people were fighting God’s people. In the army of the heathen people was one man who was very tall, who wore armour and car ried a big sword. Each day this big man would comle out and call to the king of God’s people and ask them to choose a man to fight with him, and dared them to send a man to him. Be cause he was such a big man, a giant, every one was afraid to go, but there was a boy or young man who had come up to visit his brothers in the army of Israel, and he said he . would go and fight the giant. Well, James, who was it? Yes, it was David who was not afraid to go, because he said he would go forth to meet the giant in the name of God,
THE K I N G ’ S BUS I NESS and because he trusted in God, he was able to kill the great giant Goliath with a stone from his sling. Trust in Jesus makes us brave and true. Prayer. Besson Story.-—I wonder if any of you can tell me the name of the man who lives in the White House at Wash ington, and rules over our United States of Amerioa. He is the President, and the one who is there now is named President Harding. In our story to day the country where it happened was ruled over by a king, who lived in a beautiful palace, with numbers of ser- wants to do his bidding. The palace was surrounded with lovely gardens filled with beautiful flowers. One of the ser vants of the king was a very wicked man who hated the Jews, God’s people, and he laid a plot to have all the Jews killed. The name of the king’s wife was Esther, who was a very beautiful young woman, not only beautiful of face, but beautiful in her life, and Queen Esther was a Jewess. Her Uncle, Mor- decai, was one of the king’s servants, and when he heard of the wicked plot to have his people all killed, he sent word to Queen Esther, asking her to go before the king and plead for the saving of her people. Now, no one could enter the room in the king’s palace where his throne was, unless he asked him to oome, and if any one did so, and the king did not wish to see him, he ordered him killed. Queen Esther knew all this, and so she sent word back to her uncle asking him to call the people to gether and pray for her for three days, and she and her maidens would do the same, and at the end of three days she would go to see the king. We see here that even though she was the queen, she did not trust to her beauty or position, but she put her trust in God, and* prayed to Him to go with her. At the end of the third day, Queen Esther, dressed in her royal clothes, entered the king’s palace, and stood
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