The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1920-04-24

ADDITIONAL MATERIAI-Ruth 2l-4.
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PRIMARY TOPIC-The story Of Ruth.
JUNIOR .OPIL-.iuth and Naomi
INTERMEDIATE AND Senior ToFlC
Lilies Decisions. - |
YOUNG PEOPLE AND ADULT TOPIC
The Power Of Personal influence
|. The Occasion Of Ruth's choice.
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On account of the famine in BETH
| lehcm Judra. Naomi with her husband |
and two sons SoiOurned in the iahu |
of Moab. After the death OF her nus
band. her two sons married LodJitish |
women. After time her sons died |
also. Luon the death of her sons she /
resolved to return To her homeland
having heard that the Lord had VISIT
ell his people in giving them bread.
Hcr family went TO Moab 10 escape
trouble. but they only got into more
trouble. 1t was not till Naomi was
thus chastiSed that she resolved 10 re-
turn. She had the good sense 10
recognize that the hand nj the LORD
was upon her for good. Ruth ana or-
pah accompanied her. This she per
mitted. hut determined Ia place before
them frdnkly the difficulties Willch
would necessarily confront them. IL
was III ; frank presentation or the
difficulties and her rcpe.ted urGlEg
,, them to go back that furnished the
occasion for Tuths wise choice.
u. The Trials Of Euth's Choice wv.
! 1G-1S).
, Much as Naomi loved her daughters
, in-law. she wtyId not have them 90
into his mar[2t hlindy. She wished
D. them 10 know the cost of heir under
taking. She told them the worst that
could come uyon them, then II hard-
ships came they could only blame
4. themselves. Christ held before the
neople the great good Of casting their
. lots with him. hut always frankly told
), them what II would cost: "lf any man
,. will come after me. let him deny NM
self and take up his cross and follow
No me-" mo man having put his hand
:, 10 the pillow and looking back, is 1T tor
the kingdom of God"
9 Note the difficulties which confront
~ ed Ruth:
I. No chance TO get married gain
Naomi told her that she had nc moro
sons for which she could wait. IN tEa'
II day TO be unmarried was the S'eateS'
II disgrace. Furthermore. it was against
II Gods law for the Jews to marry out
II side of their own people.
u Q. She must renounce her gods. lie
- idolatrous worship could not he carried
on in he land where Gods 7eopl'
- dwelt This was deicately touched
III vpon when Orpah went back ". l'j
Orpah went back when 1t was plan
10 that there was no chance to get nus
hand. Now Naomi puts an additiona
test upon Ruth, that Of giving up he
religion. NaOmi's very frankness u
lie dealing with her caused Ruth to b
oi more and more determined to cast he
Iot with her. No doubt she learned I
ee' love the true God through the life
III! this true woIran. Ruth's decision wa
Va so definite and unfaltering that nc
VS. very expressions have come down
au- rs in words which mo poetry has on
,"t rivaled and no pathos exceeded an
NJ which have gone down through Gel
,oi tur,es with n music that will not Il
'iu tbem he forgotten" She was dete
a" mined 70 share Naomi's journey, IN
home. her lodging, her lot In Ire al
her grave in death, whatever IN;
wouId be. To crown IL all she won
So renounce her heather gods ana Ell
, brace Jehovah. When Naomi saw IN
" Ruth's mind was fully made up 81
quit urging her.
the III. The Glorious Issue of Ruth
face Choice.
Of putb was never sorry for her choit
ned for:
said l. She found the true God ". II
een instead of her heather gods, who we
und unable To help her. she now had I
MICS living 0od-the God of Israel-as
the God
Mr. . She found human friends (ch.
As she went TO CLEAN In the fields
ned was led to the field of Bona IN
n Of wealth and grace. The servants
Boaz treated her with considerable
oven Boaz gave instruction for spec
consideration to he given her.
"a, 2 good husband and happy no
.oob (chaps. 8 and ~. She not only
Hing cured a husband. but man of G
III, who had abundance of this worl
as n goods.
our a. An honored place in the lsri
none itish nation a ;13-1O. Though she
-uits. TO forsake her own people, she beca
used one of a nObler people.
r es- 5. She became a link in the oh
In Of Christs ancestry (4:1S-22; CT. NJ
been 1.5). The one who fully decides
lilies Christ and gives up all for him 81
fact. get a hundredfold in this life and
Which the world 10 come. eternal life.
Egyp- This story is a fine exhibition Of
sensational Truth:
~ The famine in the land indie;
the testing of the Jews; (2) the 20
ntion, into Moab, the sojOurn of the lsr
de in ties -mong the nations. (3) sicEr
WOULD and death in Moab, the chnstisemen
for a the Jews in this present age; (D
hours return TO the land. the gathering
hat a Israel TO their own land; 90 Ruth
have lowing. the gathering of the Gen
nation through the influence OF the JIG
pplied (6) ,he marriage between BOaz
Ruth. the union Of the church