INTRODUCTION
I am very fond of the book of Ruth. It is about good people as distinct from the rogues that populate the Judges. It is about a harvest field that bears some resemblance to the harvest fields of my youth. It contains a love story of great charm and one bound to appeal to an elderly man longing for a sweet, young, godly, widow! It is a story where virtue is rewarded. Its hero and heroine are country folk and I was a country boy. It has a happy ending. So I enjoyed preparing these few talks on Ruth. I used the Pulpit Commentary and also the Rev Canon Leon Morris' Commentary on Ruth in the Tyndale Old Testament Series. I didn't prepare the talks as a series but as individual messages at widely varying intervals. I think, perhaps, this will show!
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