Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1886-08-23
What Ruth Meant When She Chose
to Go With Naomi in a Strange
Land.
The Beautiful Faith and the Christian
Resolve OF the IdOlaier Moabitess
Has Its Lesson fer ".
when Death Comes Lot IL be with Ohris'
tians and Let Christians Bury YOU
Arc You Ready


time People from all parts OF Canada
attended the service to-daylat which he
was the preacher. His text was Ruth f,
le and II; "Entreat me not 10 leave thee,
or to return from following after thee
for whittier thou goest, will goi and
where thou lodgest, will lodge; tiny
people shall be my people, and thy Coo
my God where thou dlest, Will | die,
and there will be buriedi the Lord do
so TO me, and more also, II aught but
death part thee and me-" Following Is
Dr. Talmage's sermon;
Famine in Judah. Upon fields dis
tlngulshed for fertility the blight came,
and at the door OF princey abodes want
Knocked. Turning his back upon his
house and his lands, Elimclech took his
wife, Naomi, and his two sons
and started for the land OF Moab
IN SEARCH OF BREAD.
Getting into Moab his two sons mar
ried idolaters--R the name OF one,
Orpah the name Of the other. Great
calamitles came upon that household.
Elimelech died and his two sons, leaving
Naomi, the wife, and the two daughters
in-law.
Poor Naomi In strange land and
her husband and two sons dead. She
must 20 back to Judah. She cannot
stand IL In a place where everything re-
minded her OF sorrow. Just as now,
sometimes You see persons moving from
one house 10 another, or from one city TO
another, and you cannot understand II
until you find out that It is because there
were associations with certain
place that they could no longer
bear Naomi must start for
the land OF Judah; but how shall she
get there2 Between Moab and the place
where she would like to go there are
deserts; there are wild beasts ranging
the wilderness; there are savages going
up and down, aud there is the awful Dead
sea. Well, you say she came over the
road once, and can do so again. All!
when she came over the road before she
had the strong arms Of her husband
and her two sons TO defend her; now
they are all gone. The hour OF parting
has come and Naomi must be separated
from her two daughters in-law, Ruth and
0rpah. They were tenderly attached,
these three mourners. They had bent
over the same sick bed; they had moved
in the same funeral processioni they had
wept over the same grave. There the
three mourners stand talking, Naomi
thinks OF the time when she left j udah with
prince for her companion. Then they
oil think of the marriage festivals, when
Naomi's two sons were united TO these
women who have now exchanged the
wreath OF the bride for
THE VEIL or THE MoURNER.
Naomi starts for the land ofJudah, and
Ruth and 0rpah resolve to 20 q little way
along with her. They have gone but a
short distance when Naomi turns around
and says to her daughters-in-law. go
back. There may be days OF brightness
yet for you In your native land. | can't
bear to take you away from your home
and the homes Of your kindred. am old
and troubled. Go not along with me.
The Lord deal gently with you as We have
dealt with the dead and with me.n But
they persisted In going, and so the three
travelled on until after awhile Naomi turns
around again and begs them 20 go back
Qrpah takes the suggestion, and after {
sad parting goes away; but Ruth, CRANE
and glorious Ruth, turns her back upol
her home. She says; al can't bear I,
let that old mother 20 alone
II is my duty TO 20 with her.
And throwing her arms aroun,
weeping Naomi she pours out her soul II
the tenderness, and pathosi and Christian
eloquence OF my text; "Entreat me no
TO leave thee, or to return from following
after thee Tor whittier thou goest, | viii
goi aud whittier thou lodgest, wi
lodgei thy people shall be my people
and thy God my God; where thou dlest
will die, and there viii be buried, th
Lord do so TO me, and more also,
aught but death part thee and me-"
Five choices Ruth made In that tex
and five choices must we all make II "
ever want to get TO heaven.
/, In the frat place, II we want to b,
come Christians we must, like Ruth
the text, choose the Christians Goo
Beautiful Ruth looked up into the wril
Killed. face Of Naomi and said. "Thy Go
shall be my God,n You see it was
change of gods, Naomis God was j
hovah; Ruth's God was Chomosh, the
vinlty of the Moabites, whom she he
worshipped under tho symbol of blaC
star. Now she comes out from und
that black.starred divinity aud
TARRs TIKI LORD
In whom there is no darkness
all; the silver-starred divinity TO who
the meteor pointed down In Bethlehem
ANN nWhcnthN NihN VI NhNAA NAN A cNlhll
wrote; "The Lord God is SUM- Az
So, my friends, II we want TO becor
Christians we must change gods. III
world Is the Chemosh TO most people.
is q black-starred god, II can heal
wounds, IL can wipe away no sorrow
IL can pay no debts, II can save no U
dying soul. II Is great cheat, so ma
thousand miles In diameter and so ma
thousand miles In circumference. II
should put this audience under oath OF
half OF them would swear that this woi
lisa liar Iii a bank which makes lar
advertisement of what II has In the vau
and OF the dividends that il declar
and tells us that II we want hap
ness, all we have got to do Is
come 90 that bank and apply for Il.
the hour Of need we go TO that bank
get happiness, and we dnd that
vaults are empty, aud all the reliabilit
have absoonded and we are swindled {
VI everything, o thou black-starl
Chemosh, how many are burning iucel
at thy shrine
NOW, Ruth turned away from this (
Chemosh and she took Naomi's G
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