Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1895-06-15
A SABBATH YEAR.


SALT LAKE CiTY, June S, 1895.
Editor Dsssrs. AtoE
Wnly8u allow me to quote tho fJl
lowing, found on page az o. the Life
Of Hebrt G.. Kinuall. Ia the coursU
VI some remarks at nneaial COME.
renee Ia Provo, July 10, 1866, President
Kimbail tsiI;
"Perha,H many feel little sober
because uur bfeAd " cue on, but ! am
glad Of u, because II will be q warning
10 Ne, anu teach VA ~ 10y II ug Ia tu-
tuTc, as We have been told. How many
times have you DrUu ttll 10 store ny
your wheat against the nari times that
arc coming upon the nations Of tho
earn, When We iifst came into these
valleys, our ftgsiIenl toll ~ 10 lay up
stores OF all kinds % gram that the
earth mig I rest once In seven Yeas.
the earth h. determined 10 rcst, anu l
IL rlght that Il SHOULD. II Ouly requires
few gfassGIpvur8 10 make the earth
rect, they can soon clear II, THIS ~ the
seventh yeat; dld you over think Ui
it!D
/ read The above .or the frat time IN
| tho spring VI 1889, wnen all nature
was looking Promising, tut | told %
| ne!ghblT q wa then living In IdahOl
hCcJtL!Og u br5tber Hobor's rumGtdi,
| this will TO glu year Tor crops, Us II
! iH one Of thu seventh years since tie
/ arrival m tue ptuucerg g. UtHh usi7,
1854, 1891, 1865, 1875, 1852, 1851. InU
year 1859 Was known by tue moager
/ CROPS, owing tl tue scarcity VI water,
| aud IN ldahy much cattle peIlrhed Tor
| lack VI food.
Would ~ not he vol Tor Our peopls
10 heed the advice OF tho PfOpuet
Hrher, who was Out repeating the ad-
moniIion Of MgsIs to MS people Lee
vit,cus xxy); Auu thr Lore tpRhr UutO
Moses In MOuuI siuai, sAyiug!
Splak unto the oblldfen Oi Israel,
anu say unto them, When ys came
into the land whluh give you, lhcu
aahll the land keep asAbOAth unto the
| Lori.
six years thou shalt SOW thy fold,
and SIX years thou shalt prune thy
vineyard, and gather IN the ifuII
| thereof.
But Ia tho seventh year shall be q
| Sabbath OF Tost unto tue land, Sab.
bath Tor tue Lord: thou shalt neither
SOW thy field, nor pfunu toy vineyard.
Next year, 1896, Is again tnubntlC
| year, a. uUysu years viii have elapsed
since 1889, Il will also he the forty
ninth year since the arrival OF tire
| PiOneefs; MOsss further says In the
came chapter, verses olghI 10 twenty
| i've.
S. Ana thou fhalt number seven
Sa0baths Of years unto thee, seven
| timVs ven year,; and the space Oftht
seven 5aubaths OF yesTs shall DO unto
thee forty ana Dins years.
y. lhuu shall thOu cause the trum-
pct 0i the jubilee 10 sound on the tenth
DAY Of lhe seyeuth month.
| II. a luOiles shall that flnisth yea
DO unto you; ys shall not BOW, neither
reap that which groweth OF itself IN II,
nor gather tue grapes Ia II OF thy vine
undtsssed.
90. And n ys shall say, What shall
we cat tue seventh year, behold, we
shall not SOW, nor gather In nor In
crease.
"a. Then will command my bless.
ing upon you IN tho sixth year, and II
shnll bring iorih fruit for three years.
%. And ye shall ssw the eighth year,
ami est yet ui Old iru.t until tho ninth
year; until her irulls come In ye sha n
cot VI the old store.
All want 10 add IA that In my own
Jud ment the yasrs 1896 and 1891
promise 10 DO very remarkable, ne,
CoTdiug To tue words Of two mighty
Prophets.
Yours respectfully,
A. A. RAAsEYER,