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T H E K I N G ' S B U S I N E S S was because they went away when they were full that they had now been brought home empty. She attributes her emptiness to the Lord but her go ing away to herself alone. That was not the Lord’s doing but was a sin against His will.— Echoes. To go out under grace is to come back under judg ment.— Cook. So uncertain is all that which we call fullness in the creature (1 Sam. 2 :5). Even in the fullness of that sufficiency we may be in straits. But there is a fullness, a spiritual and Divine fullness, which we can never be emptied of, a good part which shall never be taken from those that have it. —Henry. v. 22. In the beginning of harvest. Fullness and pleasantness were just ahead of her. Joy follows sorrow for those who trust God. (Ps. 30:5.)— Leslie. The Story of Ruth. Ruth 1 wnd 2. Memory Verse: “ Let us love one an other: for love is of God.” 1 Jno. 4:,7. Approach: We all like to look at pretty pictures, so this morning I have one here, and you know I just love to look at a picture and then try and guess the story that the BEGINNERS picture .tells. This AND PRIMARY picture tells us one Mabel L. Merrill of the sweetest stories in the Bible, and I know you will just love to hear it. Let us bow our heads and ask Jesus to help us to learn a lesson from this beau tiful story. Lesson Story: A long, long time ago there was a family of a father and mother and two little boys who were very happy in their home until there was a time when there was no rain and food became very scarce, and this fam ily moved away from their home and went down into another country to live. After living in this new land a while the father died, leaving the wife and
tween this and that of opposing consid erations and differing claims. Unrea son decides by taste, by momentary feel ing, but the resolve of a wise, thought ful person, even though it bring tem porary disadvantage, is a moral gain, a step towards salvation.—Watson. Where thou lodgest. She had never seen a suf fering soul bear itself so heroically. She felt that in the Hebrew faith there was something which Chemosh had never imparted to her people. More people watch our bearing than we think. Let us attract them to Jesus.— Devo. Com. Thy people shall be my people. When we take God for our Father, we must take His people for our people though they be poor and despised. — Sum. Bible. v. 19. Came to Bethlehem. “ House of Bread“— a good place for hungry wanderers to come. We will find our Father’s house a house of bread when we come out of Moab the far country. (Lk. 15:17-24.) All the city moved. A proof that Elimelech was of high con sideration at that place.—-Treasury. Is this Naomi? Naomi was formerly a woman of good quality and fashion, of good rank and repute, otherwise her return in poverty had not so generally been taken notice of. Shrubs may be grubbed to the ground and none miss them but everyone marks the fall of a cedar. Let this comfort those to whom God has given small possessions. Should He visit them with poverty, their grief and shame would be less. They should not have so many fingers pointing at them, so many eyes staring on them.— Fuller. v. ?0. Call me Mara. The name Naomi means “ Sweetness” . It stands for the rest and quiet she first had in the Lord. Now she bids them call her “ Mara”— “ Bitterness” . She was her self a testimony of how poorly it pays to turn away from the Lord.—Halde- man. v. 21. I went out füll. She feels it
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