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... matter of earnest prayer to God , that He would guide and direct your steps . And then , after having done this , you will have the comfort of feeling that your situation in life is that which God Himself approves of , and in which ...
... matter of earnest prayer to God , that He would guide and direct your steps . And then , after having done this , you will have the comfort of feeling that your situation in life is that which God Himself approves of , and in which ...
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... her decision . let me ask you , How do matters stand with you ? Have you chosen the world as your portion , or have you taken Christ and Heaven , as your one gre am , that which you will live for now , E 3 THE RIGHT CHOICE . 41.
... her decision . let me ask you , How do matters stand with you ? Have you chosen the world as your portion , or have you taken Christ and Heaven , as your one gre am , that which you will live for now , E 3 THE RIGHT CHOICE . 41.
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... matter of joy . Per- haps some of our friends and neigh- bours , who are now living without God , careless about their souls , having name to live , " but in fact spiritually dead , who meet us in the house of God 66 а week after week ...
... matter of joy . Per- haps some of our friends and neigh- bours , who are now living without God , careless about their souls , having name to live , " but in fact spiritually dead , who meet us in the house of God 66 а week after week ...
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... matter of no small anxiety to them both , how they might maintain them- selves ; and her daughter - in - law was as anxious as she was to use every ex- ertion for their support . " " You remember that when they first arrived in the land ...
... matter of no small anxiety to them both , how they might maintain them- selves ; and her daughter - in - law was as anxious as she was to use every ex- ertion for their support . " " You remember that when they first arrived in the land ...
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... matters it is so too with our spiritual concerns . We labour perhaps for peace in our souls ; we seek it earnestly and anxiously , but seemingly all in vain . And then , at length , by some unexpected means , God gives us what we have ...
... matters it is so too with our spiritual concerns . We labour perhaps for peace in our souls ; we seek it earnestly and anxiously , but seemingly all in vain . And then , at length , by some unexpected means , God gives us what we have ...
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afflicted barley Behold better Bible Boaz and Ruth Boaz knew bread called Canaan CHAPTER Christ city of Bethlehem comfort corn country of Moab daughter daughter-in-law dead dear Reader diest dwell earthly elders Elimelech ephah eternity famine Father feel felt friendless give glean gleaner harvest heart heathen heaven husband Jerusalem Jewish law Judah kindness kinsman labour land of Israel land of Moab lifted living look Lord hath Lord's MACINTOSH Mahlon and Chilion maidens Mara marriage marry morning Naomi said unto never once Orpah peace PLUCKLEY poor prayer reapers redeem rich Ruth the Moabitess Ruth's history Saviour servants sons sorrow soul spiritual Story of Ruth stranger thankful thee thine eyes things thou art thou hast thought town of Bethlehem turned unto Boaz unto Naomi unto thy mother-in-law widow wife woman word worldly
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Page 125 - If brethren dwell together, and one of them die, and have no child, the wife of the dead shall not marry without unto a stranger: her husband's brother shall go in unto her, and take her to him to wife, and perform the duty of an husband's brother unto her.
Page 36 - Entreat me not to leave thee, Or to return from following after thee ; For whither thou goest, I will go ; And where thou lodgest, I will lodge ; Thy people shall be my people, And thy God, my God ; Where thou diest, will I die, And there will I be buried ; The Lord do so to me, And more also, If aught but death part thee and me.
Page 60 - Although the fig-tree shall not blossom, neither shall fruit be in the vines : the labour of the olive shall fail, and the fields shall yield no meat; The flock shall be cut off from the fold : and there shall be no herd in the stalls ; Yet I will rejoice in the Lord : I will joy in the God of my salvation.
Page 45 - And she said unto them, Call me not Naomi, call me Mara: for the Almighty hath dealt very bitterly with me. I went out full, and the Lord hath brought me home again empty : why then call ye me Naomi, seeing the Lord hath testified against me, and the Almighty hath afflicted me...
Page 122 - Naomi, that is come again out of the country of Moab, selleth a parcel of land, which was our brother Elimelech's: and I thought to advertise thee, saying, Buy it before the inhabitants, and before the elders of my people.
Page 23 - Who shall separate us from the love of Christ ? shall tribulation or distress or persecution or famine or nakedness or peril or sword ? Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us.
Page 64 - ... It hath fully been shewed me, all that thou hast 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 knewest not heretofore. The LORD recompense thy work, and a full reward be given thee of the LORD God of Israel, under whose wings thou art come to trust.
Page 62 - And Ruth the Moabitess said unto Naomi, Let me now go to the field, and glean ears of corn after him in whose sight I shall find grace.
Page 126 - And if the man like not to take •his brother's wife, then let his brother's wife go up to the gate unto the elders, and say, My husband's brother refuseth to raise up unto his brother a name in Israel, he will not perform the duty of my husband's brother.
Page 130 - Then said Boaz, What day thou buyest the field of the hand of Naomi, thou must buy it also of Ruth the Moabitess, the wife of the dead to raise up the name of the dead upon his inheritance.