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VERY different is the object of our present contemplation from the last-the gold from the tatters, the sceptre of a powerful monarch from the rags of an African servant-and even so our theme rises from man's mercy to that of God, from the kindness of Ebedmelech to the free grace of our Lord.
For it is not on the history of Esther herself that we will now dwell, except so far as she appears an emblem of the Church, the queen "all glorious within," whose clothing is "of wrought gold. " Let us muse on how she, and with her every individual believer, dares to approach Him who is of "purer eyes than to behold iniquity," the great and terrible God, "who hath measured the waters in the hollow of His hand, and meted out heaven with the span."