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favor of this much-needed legislation should be 

 aroused in each of these States, and women's organi- 

 zations can do much to bring thi< about. 



8. FORESTS IN THE BIBLE 



He hath laid my vine waste and barked my fig tree; 

 he hath made it clean bare and east it away: the 

 brandies thereof are made white. (Joel i:7.) 



How do the beasts groan! The herds of cattle are 

 perplexed because they have no pasture; yea, the 

 flocks of sheep are made desolate. 



O, Lord to Thee will I cry, for the fire hath de- 

 voured the pastures of the wilderness, and the flame 

 hath burned all the trees of the field. 



The beasts of the field cry also unto Thee, for tin- 

 rivers of waters are dried up and the fire hath de- 

 voured the pastures of the wilderness. (Joel i:18, 

 19, 20.) 



For every beast of the forest is mine, and the cattle 

 upon a thousand hills. (Psalms 1:10.) 



Is it not yet a very little while and Lebanon shall 

 be turned into a fruitful field and the fruitful field 

 shall be esteemed as a forest. (Isaiah xxix:17.) 



Until the spirit be poured upon us from on high, and 

 the wilderness be a fruitful field, and the fruitful 

 field be counted for a forest. (Isaiah xxxii:l.">.) 



Zion shall be plowed like a field and Jerusalem shall 

 become heaps, and the mountain of the house as the 

 high places of a forest. (Jeremiah xxvi:lS.) 



Son of Man, set thy face toward the South and 

 drop thy word toward the South, and prophesy 

 against the forest of the south field. 



And say to the forest of the South — Hear the word 

 of the Lord. Thus saith the Lord God : Behold, I will 

 kindle a fire in thee and it shall devour every green 

 tree in thee and every dry tree. The flaming flame 

 shall not be quenched and all faces from the south to 

 the north shall be burned therein. (Ezekiel xx : 24. 

 47.) 



When thou shalt besiege a city a long time, in mak- 

 ing war against it to take it, thou shalt not destroy 

 the trees thereof by forcing an axe against them, and 

 thou shalt not cut them down, for the tree of the 

 field is man's life. (Deuteronomy xx:19.) 



For there is hope of a tree, if it be cut down, that 

 it will sprout again and that the tender branch 

 thereof will not cease. (Job xiv:7.) 



And he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers 

 of water that bringeth forth his fruit in his season: 

 his leaf also shall not wither and whatsoever he doeth 

 shall prosper. (Psalms i : 3. ) 



For he shall be as a tree planted by the waters and 

 that spreadeth out her roots by the river, and shall 

 not see when heat cometh. but her leaf shall be 

 green; and shall not be careful in the year of drought, 

 neither shall cease from yielding fruit. (Jeremiah 

 xvii:8.) 



And God said unto Noah: "Make thee an ark oi 

 gopher wood: rooms shalt thou make in the ark. and 

 ili. m shalt pitch ir within and without with pitch. 

 (Genesis vi : 14.) 



Out of the ground made the Lord God to grow 

 every tree that is pleasant to the sight and good for 

 food". (Genesis ii : 9.) 



