The pathway of life ..to which is added a biography of DrTalmage . U^^xn^^ tn ^^i;tj^jt3sti^. THE STORY OF RUTH, AND ITS HE time that Ruth and Naomi arrived at Bethlehem washarvest time. It was the custom when a sheaf fell froma load in the harvest field for the reapers to refuse togather it up; that was to be left for the poor who mighthappen to come along that way. If there were handfulsof grain scattered across the field after the main harvesthad been reaped, instead of raking it, as farmers do now,it was, by the custom of the land, left in its place, so thatthe poor, coming a
The pathway of life ..to which is added a biography of DrTalmage . U^^xn^^ tn ^^i;tj^jt3sti^. THE STORY OF RUTH, AND ITS HE time that Ruth and Naomi arrived at Bethlehem washarvest time. It was the custom when a sheaf fell froma load in the harvest field for the reapers to refuse togather it up; that was to be left for the poor who mighthappen to come along that way. If there were handfulsof grain scattered across the field after the main harvesthad been reaped, instead of raking it, as farmers do now,it was, by the custom of the land, left in its place, so thatthe poor, coming along that way, might glean it and get their bread. But,you say: What is the use of all these harvest fields to Ruth and Naomi ? Naomi istoo old and feeble to go out and toil in the sun; and can you expect that Ruth,the young and the beautiful, should tan her cheeks and blister her hands in theharvest field? Boaz owns a large farm, and he goes out to see the reapers gather in thegrain. Coming there, right behind the swarthy sun-browned reapers, he beholdsa beautiful woman gleaning—a woman more fit to bend to a harp or sit upon
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