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Sufferer. Jeremiah, according to Author Paterson, "was the most hum,an of all the prophets, and at the same time the most Christ-like." Commanded by Jehovah to take no wife, Jeremiah reveals himself in his writings as a lonely and humble man whose life was torn between two loves, "my people" and "my God." Writes Paterson: "The other prophets of the Old Testament seem to stand at the side of God and hurl their words of doom down upon the people, but Jeremiah seems to stand between the people and God and gather to his own bosom...
...Jeremiah began his public life at the same time that the Book oj the Law was discovered in the temple at Jerusalem. On the basis of the Law the Jewish priesthood undertook a sweeping reform of current religious practice. Jeremiah bitterly opposed the resulting emphasis on ritual and statute. The priests and temple prophets threw him into bondage and imprisonment for his views, and sometimes his grief at Israel's indifference burst from him. in the kind of lamentation that ever since has been labeled with his name...
Married. Elizabeth Kirkpatrick Billing, 53, jut-jawed, Red-chasing propagandist; and Jeremiah Stokes, 70, Mormon elder; each for the second time; in Chicago. Anti-Semitic Mrs. Dilling made her first big noise in 1934 with her finger-pointing book, The Red Network (among the "Reds" she discovered: William Allen White, Harry Emerson Fosdick, Eleanor Roosevelt), more recently starred in person as a defendant in the noisy 1944 Sedition Trial fiasco...
Publisher Jeremiah Ingersoll* had been searching for a new formula since he took over Salute in mid-1946. Last fall Ingersoll hired Vernon Pope, onetime editor of Look, and Editor Morris Weeks Jr., once of Pageant, to put some snap into Salute...
Charlottesville, a university town of very old traditions and very new football talent, hadn't had such a time since Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon surveyed a line and laid the foundation for a permanent sectional psychoses...