Democratic Sentinel, Volume 1, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 August 1877 — A Modern Ruth. [ARTICLE]

A Modern Ruth.

A very pretty story is told in the Pittsburgh Commercial. A young lady from the South was wooed and won by a young California physician. About the time the wedding was to come off the young man lost his entire fortune. He wrote the lady a letter releasing her from her engagement. And what does the dear, good girl do ? Why, she takes a lump of gold which her lover had sent her in his prosperity as a keepsake, and, having it manufactured into a ring, forwards it to him with the following Bible inscription engraved in distinct characters on the outside : ‘ ‘ Entreat me not to leave thee, or to return from following alter thee ; for whither thou goest will I go, and whither thou lodgest will I lodge ; thy people will be my people, and thy God my God ; where thou diest will I die, and there will I be buried ; the Lord do so to me, and more also, if aught but death part me and thee.” “ We may add,” concludes the Commercial, “that fortune soon again smiled upon the young physician, and that he subsequently returned to the South to wed the sweet girl he loved, and who loved him with such undying affeotien. Reader, this is all true. Young ladies who read the Bible as closely as the heroine of this incident seems to have done are pretty sure to make good sweethearts and better wives.”