Reformation Heritage Books

"The book of Ruth has a charm of its own, which is more easily appreciated than defined. its leading characters, apart from Boaz, are poor and humble - two childless widows, one of them a daughter of the abhorred race of Moab. The incidents recorded in these few brief chapters are quite ordinary - almost commonplace. The style of the book is artless in the extreme, quite devoid of sensationalism and free from all literary artifices. The events are recited in few and simple words. There are no dramatic situations, no attempts to heighten the effect of the events described. Nevertheless, the story of Ruth the Moabitess grasps the attention even of the most indifferent reader, and leaves upon his mind an impression of refreshing wholesomeness and sweetness which more ambitious literary efforts, dealing with more exciting incidents, wholly fail to create"  - Extract