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BY REV. BYRON H. STAUFFER
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A YOUNG MAN'S SiMEETHEARf declares! erores to be on ta par witlh til s
who prevent sinners from seeing the
error of their way. The author or
this book of our Bible, however, has
no word of condemnation either for
the outgoing emigrants or for the re-
turning Naomi. But why does she
advise• against a course that would,
at least, be helpful to herself? To
Text: "And Ruth said, Entre: t rer
not to leave thee, or to return fron
following after thee; for whither the
guest, I will go; and where the
Iodgest, I will lodne; toy people shal
be my people, and thy coal my God.
"Where thou Blest, will I die, an
there will I be burled: the Lord d
so to me, and more also, If aught bt
death part thee and me."—Ruth 1
16, 17.
The story of Ruth makes lovers 11-
ten, the world over. Longfellow
swain pays his betrothed the higher
compliment when he says to her:
widowed mother has been curtained
by the gleaning of some willing Ruth,
In an American city lives a widow
whom I knew when she was the haPPY
wife of a husband whose home was
his chief Joy, But he died just when
his business affairs happened to be
badly entangled, and little was left
for the family. Things looked dark
enough for that frail littlewoman
with her grown daughter, her twelve-
year -old boy and her two mailer
children. The oldest girl, Ethel, put
her arms around mother's neck and
kissed her. While she was stroking
the furrowed cheek and wiping %wax
the tears, a new inspiration came to
the young woman, and she said:
"Mother, don't worry; 1 will get a
position and work hard to keep you
all." The mother smiled almost 111
pity at the girl's dream, for she had
been brought up in comparative luxury
and had never been trained to do much
of anything.
But she was as good as her word..
She first secured work in a factory
my 'thinking, it is altogether a racial and learned stenography evenings.
question. She knows that the people She became proficient and went 'Into
of Israel do not take kindly to stran- an office at $6 a week. Then She got
gers. She is unwilling that the widows eta and $10, and ole, and .one day
of her sons should suffer ostracism. When I called at the home, the little
It is better for them to return. For widow's eyes fairly danced with Joy
their sakes, she is willing to proceed as she announced that Ethel had her
to Bethlehem alone, She is a brave pay advanced to $15. Holy hands are
woman, even though all sermon- they which carry home that money
makers niay not understand her, to mother every Saturday evening.
Tho young women make weeping Beautiful fingers are those which glide
"Long was the good man's sermon; protest. "Surely we will return with over the keyboard earning that money,
But it seemed not so to me, thee unto thy people." But Naomi whether they be shapely or not.
For he spoke of Ituth, the beautiful, repeats and emphasizes her words. I Well, I am not slurprised that a
And then I thought of thee." Then Orpah acquiesces. But Ruth young fellow, with a rich father found
This Bible love -tale c >uld be drama- persists in her resolution. Naomi can- that they had a •nice stenographer in
not shako her. With those words. the next pflice, and he began to call
tized. -It would make a play without which will never be surpassed as a and see her occasionally, and it wasn't
a villain. We might divide it into tome pledge of fidelity, she plights her faith. ea strange that he had sense enough
pretty scenes with a wedding for a It is not necessary to scorn• the to take her out in his automobile and
climax. vanishing Orpah in order to give Ruth show her a fine suburban lot which
her meed of praise. Orpah did what iiia father had given him. And he
Scene the First. Four people trudge the great majority of us would do, ; breathed hard while he told her that
across the stage with heavy bundles Ask a hundred young women it they if she'd consent to be his wife, he'd
on their backs. There are the hus- will volunteer as missionaries to build a house on the lot the next
band and the wife, both careworn and Africa, and youernay find but one to I spring. She went home and tiptoed
poorly clad, and two stalwart though accept. Must the other ninety-nine into her mother's bedroom, and told
pinchfaced youth. But a gleam of therefore be traduced? No, they did the little body what the rich young
hope is still in their eyes, for they not see fit to make a notable saoriflce, xnan had said. And the little ;mother
have heard that beyond the bare glens but they may, nevetheless, have merit, reached out her thin hands and cried,
about them there is a land that the They severally enter upon lives of "Lift me up and kiss me, Ethel. 1
awful famine has not visited. The usefulness, some as nurses, Some eta want to look at you, and thank God
rnah is EElimelech; the woman, his wife teachers, the majority as good Winas tor your good fortune," Well, what
do you suppeee the outcome wall
She wanted to say "Yes," fprelle
loved him. But she thought of little
brother and the little sisters) and
above all, little mother. At last she
saw the. path of duty, clear as dey.
She said "No." She took half a day
tq cry over .it, then laughed through
her tears and went back to work,
She is still working and•earryipg home
money. I take off my fiat to that girl,
for she's a queen.
Gleaning was about the only work
for a girl in that age. All she could
do 'was to pick up the "rakings, as
We -call the aftermath of the harvest.
And the sun of Tier long day's picking
Would scarcely furnish one loaf of
bread. Our poor get the prie e of forty
loaves of bread fol' their days labor
in the harvest field, and our farmers
can ••hardly bribe them to come out
into the country and take the work
and the bread. Our washerwomen get
twenty-five loaves of bread for their
day's gleaning, and you must treat
them very considerately or they will
No and gleai} in the next washtub.
owadays a girl need not •>iO into the
ilarveet field to work. ,el thousand
avenues of usefelness are open to her.
Eche can enter almost any calling and
Fomniand adequate compensation. The
only' limit is her own choice and
adaptation.
And the Ruths of to -day glean in
any field of industry with every moral
security. They can maintain their
pelf -respect. There is just a little
hint given in our story that the prob-
lem of protecting women employes
from insult was present even there in
Bethlehem three thousand •years ago.
The proprietor of the barley field gave
instructions that the new gleaner
with the foreign speech should be
treated with every consideration. It
is hardly necessary in this age for any
such orders as Boaz gave that day.
The woman gleaner is generally re-
spected, the law gives her every pro-
tection, and she is adequately equipped
py self-discipline to take good care
of herself.
Snobbish treatment of women
workers is no longer tolerated in the
new world. At beat it was but an.
importation from effete Europe. They
in the Old World inherited it from
the anciehrt pharisaical spirit that mar-
veled when the Master talked with
the woman at the well.
"When I was a boy, there was no
doffing of hats among the middle
classes except to ladies," said an old
man, in commenting on the demo-
cratic tendencies of the age. I won-
dered why he saw sech a great change
in that, and ventured to remark that
even now the custom of tipping the
hat to men was hardly general. ,"Oh,
I don't mean men," he explained; "I
meant that nowadays they take off
their hats to factory girls ,and all kinds
of women, as well as to ladies."
Why, certainly, How dense in me
not to understandl "Lady" means a
woman of rank, or at least o1` leisure.
And what the dear old innocent want-
ed to say was that in his youth, hats
were tipped to the nobility and titled
gentry only, And while he rejoiced
in the fact that the young apprentice
may now greet his housemaid sweet-
heart with uplifted hat, he still held
tenaciously to the mediaeval definition
of the word "lady." He would not
call a stenographer a young lady, oh,
no.
Naomi; the boys, Chinon and Mahlon.
They are poor emigrants staggering
from a. hard -times country to one
whore, at any rate, distance lends en-
chantment to the view. There is no
bread in Taraei, t N they are moving
to Moab.
An English evangelist of some repu-
tation for fitting all Scripture into re-
vel themes deals quite harshly with
Elimelech and Naomi. He likens
their journey to that of the Prodigal
Son. In going into Moab, these
people backslide. They show a re-
bellious spirit, a lack of faith and s
spiritual decline. Now, I submit tha
this habit of perverting Scripture to
fit the transient needs of our exhor-
tations is both foolish and baneful.
In this case it puts four breve people
in a very false light, and deprives us
of a fine example of ancient courage.
Emigrants are usually heroes; to
wit, your forefathers and mine. "Wife,
tunes are bard, Wen eFe gut of work,
Europe is overcrowded; let pe try our
fortunes in America:" Bundles are
shouldered, the tramp to the ship is
commenced, the steerage passage is
secured, the ocean is crossed, America
is reached! Don't blush, but tile
couple I am talking about ,were your
grandparents. They didn't possess
very much of anything except the
courage to cross the sea. But that
was a deal more than some of their
neighbors had. The neighbors timidly
stayed In England, Scotland or Ire-
land; your grandparents came away.
, Now, after fifty or seventy-five years,
you see grandchildren of those neigh-
bors-0f
eigh-
bors-of your forebears emerge from
quarantine with their oilcloth satchels,
and you turn upyour nose at the sight'
of their anxious' hungry faces, and you
mock their provincial twang, and
thank (rod that you are a Canadian,
and lament the fact that so, many of
these cheap langlishmen are coming
over. Oh, that the kodak and the
phonograph had been in use two
generations ago. If you could see how
your grandsire looked and how he was
dressed, if you could hear }lila chatter
his dialect the day after he arrived,
ydu would—well, you would shake
hands with those newly -arrived third
cousins of yours and treat them a
little Whore considerately than you do.
Do not get angry, please. Do not say
that your grandfather didn't look so
frail and debilitated and poor and
shabby. You did not see the old
gentleman as he looked then, But he
•lra•d the courage to come across, and
that was enough. Do not sneer at
shacktown. The immigrant who buys
at
twenty -foot lot and builds •'a home,
a*en if it Ira at first, no larger than
and mothers. Quite naturally WA
hear little. more of those ninety-nine,
but the hundredth one goes to Afriea"
becomes the spiritual mother of tbgt}-
sands of black children, and the
whole Christian world revered'the
memory of Agnes McAllister,
The, Orpahs shut themselves oat
from 'the opportunity of deathless
fame; they are just ordinary folks
who follow the great law of average.
They may even, in later years, show
somewhat of a "reversion to type."
They disappear among a million
others who, like them, are lost on the
hdrizon.
But Ruth is of the stuff that heroines
are made of. She belongs to the race
of Florence Nightingales, Clara Bas'-
tons, Grace Darlings. She pours out
her whole vial of precious ointment
upon the feet of the. one she hives,
So this is the crossroad at which
the Orpahs and the Ruths stand; not
a choice between evil and good, but
i?etweeu the well -beaten highway of
uptiflable self-interest and the almost
teeekless path of extraordinary sacri-
#ice to love ami duty. And the first
path leads to the great metropolis of
forgotten careersi the second to the
little company of Immortals,
But of- the final destination of the
path, slhe has choses Ruth knows
nothing to -day, She has only one
reason for taking up her bundle again
'to follow Naomi en the highway lead-
ing beyond the Jordan, and that is
the reason of love,
Scene the Third. Before a half -
ruined cottage in the little hamlet of
Bethlehem the tired, travelers halt.
The doors are no sooner opened and
the cobwebs brushed aside, than the
neighbors, with rustic curiosity, begin
to gather to find out who is moving
into Elimelech's house. They see an
old woman, white-haired, wrinkled
end bowed down. • But there is some-
thing familiar about the quiet smile
that plays around the corners of
mouth and eye, and they say: "Why,
Naomi, is this you? "yes, it is. I,
but Mara would be a more fitting
name, for I have passed through bit-
ter trials. 1 went away full, I have
returned empty." Ah,: we know not
what ten years may bring forth.
Some go to the Northwest and come
back even from that land of promise,
empty.
There is nothing in the house to
eat, So the able-bodied Ruth says to
the frail Naomi: "J will go into the
field and glean." That bronze -skinned
heathen girl was a Christian even
thpugh she lived a milienium before
a freight ear, has all the pluck neces- (ilr'ist. She had the spirit of the
Bary to. "make good." I Master. Self-sacrificing concern for
We cannot all stay in the cozy, others is the badge of discipleship.
'Bethlehem of our childhood. Some of Walking tbrough the corridors of a
lir find ourselVee uprooted by force hospital late at night, I heard a child's
oY circumstances, and transplanted on *Nice in an occasional wait" that told
strange shores. Ties which it took oR physical !suffering. "That little
years to knit must be severed. But five-year-Old•girl's limb was amputated
there are joys which we can take with at noon," explained the superinten-
us even tb Moab. Home is home any. dent. A nurse, bending over the
way. Unpack the trunks, hang up the little sufferer, was no oecupied in
few 'pictures, arrange the little slhelf soothing her that she did not notice
of books, put a neat oh the floor, set our approach. She seemed to be get-
up a bed, start a cheerful •fire, get ting right down under that child's
the tea kettle a -singing, lift the voice, cross to bear it herself. She punctu-
all hands, in the old-time song, "Be ated every cry with a groan. Hours
;it ever so humble, there's no place had passed since she began her sacred
like home." . j task of quieting that poor little girl
I
elling •ing
for mamma, and moaning, "It
Scene the Second. In the distance' hurts! it hurts!" and still the young
flows the lazy Jordan. Closer, in the woman with the white headgear was
:foreground, Is a highway leading to a humming away, with her cheek down
Mord.. Beyond the river is Israel; here close to the fevered face, and her
is Moab, On. the highway stand three hand patting the curly head. Angela
,women, The first we know, even never saw a more glorious sight. But
,though she is bent with the burdens she couldn't get her charge to sleep.
of the intervening ten years; She is The eyes were nclosed thano sooner
Naomi, widow of Elimelech. The a series of fitful sobs would be follow -
other two are dark -hued young wo, ed by another scream. "It ]hurts!
men, Orpah and Ruth, the Moabitish it hurts!" Suddenly a bright idea
Velvet that Mahlon and Chilton mar. reinforced the nurse's resources. She
ried in the foreign land. But poor went and got a big dolly from the
Naomi's two sons have followed their nursery, and held it towards the little
father to the grave, so her daughters• girl, saying: "Daily's foot hurts too,
in-law are widows tdo., poor' dolly; let us put doily to Sleep,
As the three are standing there, dolly's foot hurts so badly." Nurse
Naomi speaks adripture gives her started a lullaby: "Go to sleep, my
words in Such exquisite fashion, ii dilly dear." Then there were sone
would be vandalism ° to paraphrase broken -oar sighs' and sonic long, long
the sentences: breaths, and the voice of the nurse,
arid
„ now Singing uti slie camesoftlylowerfor
And Naomi said: unto her two !owe Y away,
daughters In Iaw, Go, return each to dearfe was asleep beside her dolly.
her mother's house: the 'Lord Ileal ;That nurse was a brick. She illus -
kindly with you, es ye have dealt treed the keynote of the spirit of
with the dead, and • with me. ;this age, concern for others. The
•'Meer Lord -grant you that )e miry', secret of her successful stratagem as
find rest, tads of pan iii' s house :the precious principle that in minister -
of her WOW. . Then u. ki d, An to ethers we forget our own helot. -
them; and tisey lifted up , TM p ere _
and 'wept." - �r *tell wosider tl�rat
that of 7iiir lather, "left lie r all alone.
1 couldn't help wondering, as I bane
her goodbye after her father's fun r t.
"Will this pearl ever be diecovehe d
Two years later, at the close of a 1 c
ture in my former church she greeter
me, introducing a prosperousdooki:i.
young man who, I afterwards learns
belonged to an excellent family,
saying, "Shake hands with my lox: -
band."
Yes, there isa wedding in llethle,
hem to -day. Ruth, the foreigner, the
poor widow, the hardworking gleaner,
is getting married. "And who is sii?
!Harrying, I'd like to know?" "Why,
Isaac Boaz, that rich landlord, who
lives in the mansion on the edge of
the village." "What? Well, well, 1
didn't think that he'd marry a work
ing girl." You didn't, eh? Well, why
shouldn't lie marry her? If nothing
else, It will giro you ou an opp rt pity
of saying, by and by, when you see
her riding by in her carriage: "Oh,
she isn't so much; she was nothing
better than a servant girl before Ike.
Boaz married her."
People like to gossip about poor
girls who make a good catch. They •
forget that there is a reason. Boaz
gives it in the first words addresse-
to the timid girl: "It bath been fully
showed me, all that thou bast 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 lcnewest not
heretofore." Merit will out. Some
sweet day will come the announce -
]neat from the mouth of the Record-
ing Angel; "This girl war loyal to
her parents; this boy kept his
"mother!" Meanwhile, if you see a
young man of wealth pass over the
Maidens of his caste and select a
bride from the humbler stations of
life, be generous enough to say that
he must have discovered excellence
In her.
Boaz was a good catch! He was a
good-hearted, big-souled man. That
he was a generous -spirited employer is
evident from his greeting to his men,
"The Lord be with you," and their
answer: "The Lord bless thee." He
was liberal. When he saw the strange
young woman among the gleaners,
and found that she was supporting
her mother-in-law, he told his men to
"let some handfuls fall on purpose,
and leave them for her."
When the wedding la consummated,
the neighbors gather to offer con-
gratulations. Their word.^ are a credit
to the;nselvea as wohl as the bride-
groom. 1 like to think that the people.
ofthe hamlet where many gener-
ations afterwards our Lord was born,
were a noble -spirited race. Boaz gave
a hint of that when ho told Ruth that
"all the city of my people doth know
that thou are a virtuous woman."
They mudt • have been saying :dad
things about the foreigner. They
must have been sympathetic and ap-
preciative, And now they approach
the happy husband to say: "The Lord
make the woman that is come into
thine house like Rachel and like Leah,
which ,two did build the house of
Israel, and do thou worthily in Ephra-
tah, and be famous in Bethlehem."
And Naomi? Ah, the preeious old
body sits in the chimney corner, where
all good grandmas site One day the
neighbor women bring a tiny baby
boy to her, Their words are so beau-
tiful that they iuust be given verbatim:
"Blessed be the Lord, which hath
not left thee this day "without a kins-
man, that his name may be famous
in Israel. And he shall be unto thee
a restorer of thy life, and a nourisher
of thine old age; for thy daughter-in-
law, which loveth thee, w rich is bet-
ter to thee than seven sons, hath
borne him."
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Pocahoutas about it. ,.lt .
daughter of the Irdi :a ..'t° .: •'
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married • the Engl:s:'r.: ,n, ,1 h
ISing James L shook his hcu'i
said (let us hope in merry rry jnee.
"He has probably committed treasee
in marrying an Indian priucess, for
he is not of royal or even noble blood."
That union of Rolfe and l?ochahontas
was fruitful in givingVirginlaits must
famous family, the Bandolpbs, of
which Chief Justice John Randolph
was a worthy scion.
Young man, if you have been pa-
tient enough to follow me through
this talk, you aro entitled to write
your sweetheart:
"Long was the preacher's sermon;
But it seemed not so to me,
For he spoke of Ruth, the beautiful,
And then I thought of thee."
Scene the Fourth. A wedding. Who
le the bride? Why, Ruth, the gleaner
of the barley field! So the gleaning
was only temporary. It very rerely
is permanent. One of the perplexities
of the department store manager is
to, fill the places of the Ruths who
are getting married. Why, there are
little subscription lists for the pur-
chase of wedding presents in circu-
lation nearly every week.
The last time We saw Ruth'ithe was
walking home from the harvest field
in the twilight, oh, to tired, and
sweet old Naomi met her at the dot-
+erte door to ask: "Where hast thou
weaned to -day?" To -day, richly clad,
she walks up, with a quiet dii,fl1ty,
to say: "Let me introduce you to my
husband, Mr. Boaz." Doesn't that
sound natural? We all . now of ji^t
such instances. I remember visltin;;
at a !home where a dear old woman
ninety years old was lying wit e
broken hip. For three years ), r
granddaughter waited on her, act
as nurse, housekeeper and cook
her widower father and her help,
oyer. That girl
"And Naomi took the child, and laid
it in her bosom, and 'became nurse
unto it."
And the baby? Well, the woinen
of Bethlehem thought Obed would be
a nice name for him. And Obed left
the family estate to, Jesse, his son, tlo
it was likely ox those very 'fields of
great-grandfather Boas that David
tended the sheep of Jesse, This father.
ao the a#hepherd-king of Israel bad-
>t}uth 'in the lineage of his aneestry,
IWINII sayssasraltt�t
Returned the Compliment.
Shortly after the wotktuen lilt(' 1i
!shed the landlord tool; espeelni pan
to show to each tenant the bill 1.
doing over his fiat. The hco sehoblw
regerded that intention in dilferen
lights, ncvorritug to the improveate•uh
they lead fought for and got. Same
looked frightened, thinking it portend
ed a raise in rent, sotne npologetie, oth
ers defiant. Tile third floor right urine
was noucomnt!ttai. Three days Inter
he called tit the lnudiord's office and
showed 111111 a slip or paper. It was n
bill for els shirts, some socks and ties,'
a hat anti a blue serge suit.
"!l'ist's this got to do with me?" the
landlord asked.
"Oh, nothing," sold the man. "Just
an Interchange of courtesies. Nothing
lila[ being neighborly, you know"
A PROBLEM IN FINANCE.
?hs Question That Lincoln Fired at
Secretary Chase.
The mysteries of :finance were not
always clear to Mr. Lincoln, whose
statesmanship was of another sort,
But his keen sense of humor would net
permit him to regard the difficult out).
ject as too profound for an occasional
joke,
One day Secretary Chase of the
treasury department found on a dealt
in his office what at first appeared to
be a picture of an "infernal machine."
It looked like a goose, but on further
examination it proved to be a drawing
of an ingenious Invention for turning
gold eagles into greenbacks, with the,
secretary himself working it and slow
ly feeding it with "yellow .boys" at one
end, while, the government currency
came out at the other end, whirling
about like the leaves of autumn.
While be was examining it the pres-
ident came in, as he daily did, for con+
sultatlon. Mr. Chase handed him'the"
drawing, and his eyes twinkled as he
recognized the likeness of the secre-
tary.
"Capital joke, isn't it, Mr. Chase?"'
he exclaimed.
"A joke!" repeated the irate secre+
tory. "I'd give a thousand dollars to
know who left it here!"
"Oh, no," said Mr. Lincoln temper-
ately, "you would hardly do that."
"Yes, I would!" stoutly asserted the
secretary.
"Would you, though?" inquired the
president, with that deliberate manner
which characterized him when he was
really in earnest. "Well, which end
would you pay from?"—Yoath's Com.
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