The kiss at parting, as well as at meeting, is the customary friendly and respectful salutation in the East. The difference between mere kindness o…

Kissed. —Orpah, though unwilling to leave her mother-in-law, and though warmly attached to her, still thinks of the hardships of t…

What a difference there often is between two persons who are under religious impressions at the same time! The one would like to follow Jesus, but …

And they lifted up their voice, and wept again
Not being able to bear the thought of parting, or that they must be o…

Naomi began to think of returning after the death of her two sons. When death comes into a family, it should reform what is wrong there. Earth is m…