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Show IMMORTAL J300K OF RUTH Great Pastoral Idyl Will Live Becaus. It Is Founded on Recital of j Loving-Kindness. , The Book of Ruth, Is the greatest) pastoral idyl in literature. It is founded, on loving-kindness, the loving-kind-ness of the Moabiless revealed to her family, and the loving-kindness of Boaz, the wealthy Israelite, to Ruthj his kinswoman. It also contains th eeriu of that grent-heartedness whlcbl Is the center of the gospel of Christian love It is a book that opens with tears and famine, and ends with the sound o wedding bells. The story turn? upon the straightforwardness straight-forwardness of Boaz, who showed kindness and manliness to Ruth, a member of a nation that was Israel's foe, und In that kindness founded a. new house, the house of Jesse and David, the royal line that began & greater than David. It was the first, mingling of the blood of the Jew and Gentile, symbolic of the cosmopolitan width of the Christian religion. It was the sign that that religion was not to be founded upon wealth or upon social caste, but upon the large, wholesome whole-some love of the human heart. Boaz Is Immortal among Bible heroes for his kindness, his plain, everyday generosity, his sense of protection and care for the lonely, unprotected Moa-bltish Moa-bltish girl, his dead kinsman's wife, who in her poverty gleaned in his harvest har-vest field after the reapers. Boaz gavo orders to his reapers that they should allow her to glean even among the-sheaves the-sheaves of barley, and by his lnrge-heartedness lnrge-heartedness gained a wife, and, mora-than mora-than that, made a place for himself in that Immortal company who are renowned re-nowned for naught but for being kind, Christian Herald. |