A Comforting Pinpoint of Light

If we take the position, and we should, that the introductory words of the book of Esther, namely, "Now it came to pass in the days of Ahasuerus," are God's word to us that the events recorded in the book are fact and not fiction, and that all the incidents in the book happened in the history of this world, we will be able to say with the psalmist in Psalm 75:1, "Unto Thee, O God, do we give thanks, unto Thee do we give thanks: for that Thy name is near Thy wondrous works declare." On the...