An Initial Victory

A most crucial moment had come. A most crucial moment had come. Esther, a Jewess, must come to stand before the Gentile king who had sealed the decree that all the Jews in his vast realm must be put to death. And there she must plead for the lives of her people while placing her own life in the danger of a swifter death. Nominally, indeed, this king was her husband and a man who did not know that she was of that race which he had ordered exterminated. But a mighty poor husband he was. For...