the other, Ruth, attached herself firmly to her mother-in-law and to her mother-in-law’s God and how she received the blessing of that God. But most of all the book is a book about God. It deals with unimportant people and unimportant matters. But it deals with them in such a way as to show that God is active in the affairs of men. He works his purpose out and blesses them that trust him. There are few indications of the date of this book. The author, of course, is quite unknown. There is