Excerpt from Hadassah: The Star of the Persian Court I have tried to set forth the purity of Esther 's heart and life as the cause of her great influence with a heathen king, rather than her personal charms; and to show the superiority of her motive, over that of Vashti, which was womanly pride. I have made Mordecai unselfish in his position of non-conformist obeying God's word in spirit and in letter. Much has been said about the absence of any men tion of God in the book of Esther, in the Bible. But it seems to me that God is in every circumstance of the whole account of both these wonderful people. The fact of its being written, as it must have been, right under the eyes of the jealous Persian officials and pass their censorship would sufficiently account for the suppression of that word. But the spirit is insuppressible. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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