66 THYI GOD, MIfY GOD. After a while they rested a little by the way, and she said to them, Go, return each to her mother's house. The Lord deal kindly with you, as ye have dealt with the dead, and with me." Then they kissed each other and wept. Naomi thought if they went back, they were both young and could make new friends, and she tells them she can- not give them homes in Bethlehem, for she has no more sons to love them in place of her dead sons whose graves are in their own land. At last Orpah said Good-by to her, and turned away towards the places she knew so well in childhood, and we never see or hear of her again. Not so Ruth; the words she spoke will be said over and over again for ever. As Naomi saw Orpah going away she said to Ruth, "Thy sister-in-law is gone back unto her people and unto her gods." That did not change Ruth's mind; she had decided. No doubt she had watched Naomi in all her grief, had heard her pray, had found that the God in whom her mother believed could do more for her soul that the idol gods she had been taught to worship. When Naomi begged her to go home, she said, " Entreat me not to leave thee, or to return from following after thee: for whither thou goest, I will go, and where thou lodgest I will lodge; thy people shall be my people, and thy God my God." She thought of the time when she must die. She had seen three of their family buried, why should she not think of death? She said, Where thou diest will I die,