Ruth’s Resolve

“Entreat me not to leave thee” These words were wrung from the young widow’s heart; Ruth would not from Naomi’s ways depart For in her household she had learned to fear Jehovah, Israel’s God, in covenant sphere. No more would she bow down to idol god; She’d leave her fam’ly, to take root abroad. Her eye of faith was on God’s promised land. Of course, this was as God the Lord had planned, Since she was chosen, a forebear to be Of Jesus Christ: what a great legacy! A Moabitess in the...