Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1886-09-04
THE FIVE CHOICES OF RUTH.
DR.. Talmage Draws q Lessen from the Con-
duct of Ruth.
In Following Naomi Out o. the Land Of
Moab.
This World a Black Starred God to Most
People.
Many Christians Easily Diverted from the
Path of Duty.
The Habitation of the Just Guarded by
the Lord.
Christian Companionship the Source of the
Purest Mirth.
An Eloquent and Passionate Plea for
Leading a Christian Life.
Christian Companionship the Source of the
Purest Mirth.
An Eloquent and Passionate Plea for
Leading a Christian Life.

Leading a Ulrlstlan Lie
GRIMsBY, Ontario, August 22.-The
Roy. Z. Dewitt Talmage, ID. d., is at
tending this old historical campmect-
sng for the third time. People from all
parts of Canada attended the service
to-day at which he was the preacher.
His text was Ruth i, 16 and II: En-
treat me not TO leave ,hce, or to re-
turn from following after thee: for
whittier thou goest, | will go; and
where thou lodgest, | viii lodge: thy
people shall be my people, and thy God
my God: there thou diest. will | die,
and there will | be buried; the Lord
do so TO me, and more also, if aught
but death part thee and me-" Follow
ingi is
DIR. TALMAGE's SERMON:
Famine in Judah. Upon fields dis
tinguished for fertility the blight came,
and ut the door of princely abodes
Want knocked. Turning his back
upon his house and his lands, Elime-
Iech took his wife Naomi and his two
sons, and started for the land of Moab
in search of bread. Getting into Moab
his t1o sons married idolaters-Ruth,
s@e name of one. Orpah the name Of
che other. Great calamity came upon
that household. Elimelech died and
tAs two ons leaving Naomi. the wife,
and the two daughters-in-law. Poor
Naomi! in a strange land and her hus-
band and two sons dead. She must
go back TO Judah. She cannot stand
il in y place where everything remind,
ed her of her sorrow. just As now.
sometimes you see persons moving
from one house to another, or from
one city to another. and you cannot
understand it until you find out that il
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
got therep Retw cen Moab and the
place where she would like to go, there
are deserts; there are wild beasts rang
ing the wilderness; there are savage-
going up and down. and there is the
awful
DEAF SEA.
VOL, you say. she anne over the road
once, she can do so again. All. when
she came oyer the road before she had
the strong arms of her husband and
ber two % to defend her; now they
are all gone. The hour Of parting has
como and Naomi must be separated
from her two daughters-in-law, Ruth
and Orpah. They were tenderly at
tached. these three mourners. They
had bent over the same sick bed; they
had moved in the same funeral process
sion; they had wopt over the same
grave. There the three mourners
stand talking. Naomi thinks of the
time when she left Judah with Il prince
for her companion. Then they all
think Of the marriage festivals. when
Naomi's w o m were united to these
women who have now exchanged the
wreath OF the bride for the veil OF the
moUrner. Naomi starts for the land
OF Judah, and Ruth and Orpah resolve
IA e.N IN Hill ,v.- alo,r ~ ,x.YL, L.. wi
have gone but a short distance when
Naomi turns around and says 20 her
daughters-in-law: ''Go back. There
may be days of brightness yet for you
IN your native land. can't bear to
lake you away from your home and
the homes OF your kindred. | an old
and troubled. Go not along with me.
The Lord deal gently with Won rs We
have dealt with the dead and with me-"
But they persisted in going, and 80 the
three travelled on until after awhile
Naomi turns around again and bcgs
them TO 60 back. Orpah takes the
suggestion, and after
A SAD PARTING,
goes away; but Ruth. grand and glor-
ious Ruth. turns her back upon her
home. She SAYS: Il can't bear to let
that old mother 60 alone. 1t is my
duty TO go with her" And
throwing her arms around the
weeping Naomi she pours ont her soul
in the tenderness, and pathos, and
Christian %oloGuence of Tny text: EN-
treat me not TO leave thee, or 10 return
from following after thee: for whittier
thou goest, ! will 90: and where thou
iodgcst. l will lodge: thy people shall
be my people, AID thy God my God:
where thou diest / viii die, and there
wi!l I be buried: the Lord do so to me,