He discoursed for a time on the loss of parents, and on the dangers to which the unfortunate orphan is exposed.

Then he spoke of the peculiar risks of the tender female child, left without its natural guardians.

Warming with his subject, he dilated with wonderful unction on the temptations springing from personal attractions.

He pictured the "fair and beautiful" women of Holy Writ, lingering over their names with lover-like devotion.

He brought Esther before his audience, bathed and perfumed for the royal presence of Ahasuerus.