| Show OF MINERAL application A subscriber writing from victor ravalli county montana says bay that a preacher there has baa been asserting that the sixth verse of the seventeenth chapter of jeremiah refers to the people of utah and not to the jewe our correspondent informed her family that the preacher made it a misapplication and asks the opinion the lady assuredly la is right as ar ary y person examining the text can readily see aee the words worda ot of the prophet from the fifth to the eighth verses verse in D that chapter apply a principle which reaches to people generally the language esou it if 5 thus saith the lord cursed be the man that tru in man and maneeth mabeth flesh his arm and whose heart depar teth from the lord 6 for he shall be like the heath beath in the desert and not see when good cometh but shall inhabit the parched places in the wilderness in a salt malt tend land and hot inhabited 7 1 blessed is the man that tru in the lord and whose hope the lord Is IB 8 for be har shall be da aa a tree planted by the waters and that thai sp readeth out her roots by the river and shall heat cometh but her leaf shall be green and shall not be careful in the year of drought neither shall cease from yield 1 ing fruit those who depart from the lord and trust in the arm of flesh are surely like a beate or shrub in the desert that does not see or receive when good comes because it to is wit littered witt ered bared and parched but the attempt to 40 make utah out oat as being the heath in the deserts desert tot or such a comparison la 18 too aboard tor or se serious rions consideration it would be much more reasonable to say that this bbate IB meant in the eighth vene versea venea a tree by the waters whose leaf is gren green adi add to Is not dest destroyed by heat beat and where seasons of drought do not cause a cessation of yield yielding irig fruit because the system of irrigation in vogue readers drought of rain measurably ineffective to destroy it is 10 inconsistent however to say any that to in ane comparison made in ade there Is ie particular reference AO to soy any locality at the time a lesson was to be taught to the jews jewe and a simile tso no plain they could not mistake it IL was presented ted before them it is good tor lor any other people on the same lines so 60 far as utah to is concerned the history cal fact is that the people trusted to in t the lord and have realized the precise to re units insults illustrated in the eighth verse verge as e coo sequent upon implicit confide aft in jehovah Je bovah the preacher referred to made a most unhappy reference for himself as would have been shown at the time it if anyone had bad taken the trouble to call him down to existing conditions here |
