The Book of Esther

(The following lecture was delivered in the Roosevelt Church, February 20, under the auspices of the Men's Society. The lecture follows in unchanged form.) With the narrative told in the book of Esther as such I presume everyone in my audience is in the main acquainted. It is one of those dramatic and lively, not to say even thrilling, narratives with which well-nigh every one of us has been familiar since early childhood years. Especially those of us that enjoyed a Christian training at home,...