| Show IMMORTAL BOOK OF RUTH great pastoral idyl will live because it Is founded on recital of loving the book of ruth Is the grea greatest te st pastoral idyl lu literature itis founded on loving the loving kind ness of the reX rescaled caled to heri hen family and the loving kindness 04 ot boaz the wealthy israelite to ruth his kinswoman it also contains tho cam ot of that great hearte heartedness driess w ill la Is the center of the gospel of cairl christian s t I 1 a nt love it Is abood a book that opens with tears and famine and ends end s with the sound olund of oc wedding bells the story tura upon the straightforwardness of boaz who showed showe d kindness and manliness to ruth a member of a nation that thai was israels te fe and in that kindness founded sv new house the house of jesse and david the royal line that began a great greater erthall alian david it was the firsts first mingling ingling odthe of the blood of the je jew wand and gentile symbolic lof of the cosmopolitan width of the christian religion it was the sign that that religion was not to 0 be founded upon wealth or upon social caste but upon the large wholesome so in elove love of the human heart boaz Is immortal among elble bible heroes for his kindness his plain everyday generosity his sen protection and care for the lonely unprotected girl his dead kins mans alfe who in her poverty gleaned in his harvest field aft after erthe the re apers boaz gave orders to his readers reapers that they should allow her to glean even among tho the sheaves of barley and by his gained a wife and more mord than that made a place for himself in that immortal company who are renowned for naught but for being klad kludj Chrls christian tian herald |
