The Crisis--Watching and Waiting Ruth put away every thought of the past or future; everything that could unfit her for the duties of the present.

Exceeding love supplied the place of experience.

She never left the room after the first day; she forced herself to eat, because his service needed her strength.

She did not indulge in any tears, because the weeping she longed for would make her less able to attend upon him.

She watched, and waited, and prayed: prayed with an utter forgetfulness of self, only with a consciousness that God was all-powerful, and that he, whom she loved so much, needed the aid of the Mighty One.
Day and night, the summer night, seemed merged into one.