SHADOWS

OF

GOOD THINGS TO COME;

or, the Gospel in Ruth.

OF

GOOD THINGS TO COME;

or, the Gospel in Ruth.

BY

C. F. HULL.

Author of

"PASSING THROUGH THE WATERS;" "FROM DARKNESS TO LIGHT," &c.

"The essential meaning and augury of names has been in all ages a
belief among the Jews, whose very language was regarded by them as being
no less sacred than the oracular gems on Aaron's breast. Their belief in
the mystic potency of sounds of the tongue, guided by unalterable destiny
in the realms of seeming chance, may seem idle and superstitious to an
artificial cultivation, but has been shared by deep thinkers in every age."-
The Life of Christ, by Dr. FARRAR; Ch. x. p. 147.

BIBLIO

PREFACE.

HIS little volume is offered to the Christian

THIS

public in the earnest hope that it may be the means of throwing some fresh light on a somewhat obscure portion of Scripture; and also that it may afford a clue to guide the Bible student through other sections of Old Testament history and biography.

In many of these the writer feels assured that much valuable and profitable teaching would be discovered underlying the merely historical facts related, were due attention paid to the meaning of the proper Hebrew names of persons and places introduced into the sacred narratives.