Ruth the Gleaner
Overview
May Field McKean’s Ruth the Gleaner is a poetic interpretation of the Book of Ruth. In five short chapters, he offers readers a simple approach to this book of the Bible, while emphasizing the book’s essential theme: love. McKean illustrates the importance of not just loving, but being loveable and winning others to Christ through it.
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- Calls to light the most important theme of Ruth as love
- Encourages readers to represent Christ by emulating Ruth, through the practice of loving others
- The Departure
- In Moab
- The Return
- In the Harvest Field
- At the Gate
The author’s note indicates the especial lesson she aims to inculcate, and those for whom it was written will find it a very pleasing little volume to own.
—The Baptist Home Mission Monthly
- Title: Ruth the Gleaner
- Author: May Field McKean
- Publisher: A. J. Rowland
- Publication Date: 1897
- Pages: 60