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... felt comfort in looking up to that heavenly Friend , who was watching over her . And something now seemed sweetly to whisper to her , " Thy Maker is thy Husband ; " " The Lord preserveth the strangers ; he relieveth the fatherless and ...
... felt comfort in looking up to that heavenly Friend , who was watching over her . And something now seemed sweetly to whisper to her , " Thy Maker is thy Husband ; " " The Lord preserveth the strangers ; he relieveth the fatherless and ...
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... felt no op- position to the God whom she loved and served . A quiet consistent example , often goes a great way . It usually wins more hearts than the most powerful argu- ments . Think of this , my dear Reader ; and if you have a ...
... felt no op- position to the God whom she loved and served . A quiet consistent example , often goes a great way . It usually wins more hearts than the most powerful argu- ments . Think of this , my dear Reader ; and if you have a ...
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... felt very anxious to return to her native country . The famine there " for she had heard in the country of Moab how that the Lord had visited his people in giving them bread . " There was little now to make was over ; her present ...
... felt very anxious to return to her native country . The famine there " for she had heard in the country of Moab how that the Lord had visited his people in giving them bread . " There was little now to make was over ; her present ...
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Ashton Oxenden (bp. of Montreal.) felt almost a mother's affection ? It is hard for them to think of leaving their home , and the land of their birth , and to go among strangers . And yet they could not bear the thought of parting with ...
Ashton Oxenden (bp. of Montreal.) felt almost a mother's affection ? It is hard for them to think of leaving their home , and the land of their birth , and to go among strangers . And yet they could not bear the thought of parting with ...
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... in - law : no one to speak any more of that dear Friend above , on whom their thoughts had so often dwelt . How sad she must have felt ! And when her thoughts arned to bye - gone days , one can al- THE RIGHT CHOICE . 43.
... in - law : no one to speak any more of that dear Friend above , on whom their thoughts had so often dwelt . How sad she must have felt ! And when her thoughts arned to bye - gone days , one can al- THE RIGHT CHOICE . 43.
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afflicted answered become Bethlehem better blessed Boaz bread bring brother called CHAPTER Christ comfort condition country of Moab daily daughter dead dear doubt earth earthly elders Elimelech eternity eyes famine Father feel felt field give glean God's gone grace hand happy hath heart heathen heaven hour husband inheritance interest Israel kindness kinsman knew labour land leave lifted living look Lord matter means meet morning mother mother-in-law Naomi never once Orpah pass peace perhaps poor prayer probably Reader redeem rest rich Ruth Ruth's Saviour seemed showed sons sorrow soul speak spiritual step stranger suffered sure thankful thee thine thing thou thou hast thought told true turned unto widow wife woman young
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Page 123 - If brethren dwell together, and one of them die, and have no child, the wife of the dead shall not marry without unto a stranger: her husband's brother shall go in unto her, and take her to him to wife, and perform the duty of an husband's brother unto her.
Page 34 - Entreat me not to leave thee, Or to return from following after thee ; For whither thou goest, I will go ; And where thou lodgest, I will lodge ; Thy people shall be my people, And thy God, my God ; Where thou diest, will I die, And there will I be buried ; The Lord do so to me, And more also, If aught but death part thee and me.
Page 58 - Although the fig-tree shall not blossom, neither shall fruit be in the vines : the labour of the olive shall fail, and the fields shall yield no meat; The flock shall be cut off from the fold : and there shall be no herd in the stalls ; Yet I will rejoice in the Lord : I will joy in the God of my salvation.
Page 43 - And she said unto them, Call me not Naomi, call me Mara: for the Almighty hath dealt very bitterly with me. I went out full, and the Lord hath brought me home again empty : why then call ye me Naomi, seeing the Lord hath testified against me, and the Almighty hath afflicted me...
Page 120 - Naomi, that is come again out of the country of Moab, selleth a parcel of land, which was our brother Elimelech's: and I thought to advertise thee, saying, Buy it before the inhabitants, and before the elders of my people.
Page 21 - Who shall separate us from the love of Christ ? shall tribulation or distress or persecution or famine or nakedness or peril or sword ? Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us.
Page 62 - ... It hath fully been shewed me, all that thou hast done unto thy mother in law since the death of thine husband: and how thou hast left thy father and thy mother, and the land of thy nativity, and art come unto a people which thou knewest not heretofore. The LORD recompense thy work, and a full reward be given thee of the LORD God of Israel, under whose wings thou art come to trust.
Page 60 - And Ruth the Moabitess said unto Naomi, Let me now go to the field, and glean ears of corn after him in whose sight I shall find grace.
Page 124 - And if the man like not to take •his brother's wife, then let his brother's wife go up to the gate unto the elders, and say, My husband's brother refuseth to raise up unto his brother a name in Israel, he will not perform the duty of my husband's brother.
Page 128 - Then said Boaz, What day thou buyest the field of the hand of Naomi, thou must buy it also of Ruth the Moabitess, the wife of the dead to raise up the name of the dead upon his inheritance.