Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1857-11-28
SABBATH READING.
Preoiousness of the Scriptures.

Preciousness of the Scriptures
Let us bless our good God that he has
sent us the Word of his Christ among us
in its light and in its genuine use and
acknowledging this grace from the bottom
of our hearts, improve his favor. Let this
Word be the only government of our hearts
and lives. Let us hear it's voice in public.
consult it in private Let us have these
divine books to which the Holy Spirit has
consigned his Instructions. Read them
vii out scruple, and without fear of finding
anything that is dangerous or vcnomous in
thcm. They arc the paradise of Jesus
Christ, N which the tree of life grows, and
whence flows the streams of holiness, iov,
and immortality, but paradise where the
old serpent never entered, where his breath
and poison arc unknown. Fathers and
mothers, instruct your children in this
wholesome study Young ones. addict
yourselves to it bctimes Fill your memo
lies out of this treasury of wisdom Men
and women, old and young, rich and poor,
learned and unlcarncd, re- eiyc yo all this
b Divine guest whom the apostle has now
lodged at your house. Let it dwell there
Gas he has ordered) richly and abundantly
in all wisdom If you receive and treat It
with the respect it merits, it will cure your
souls of all their maladics it will inform
your understandings of all heavenly truth,
and purge them of all earthly errors and su-
pcrstition. 1t will fill your hearts with love
to God, and charity towards your ncighbor,
and by the efficacy of its truth, cxtinguish
all those petty passions that tie you to the
world twill comfort you in your trou-
bles; it will tortify you in your weakness
1T will sustain you in your conflicts twill
arm you against all sorts of enemies, and
guide you in all your ways. 1t will sweet
On your adycrsities, and govern your pros
perity; and, to comprise all in few words,
it will conduct you to the haven of eternal
salvation, Notwithstanding all the storms of
this wrctchcd life. Employ likewise this
Word of the Lord to those uses which the
apostle recommends to you, even to those
mutual teachings and admonishings which
you owe each other, giving aud receiving
them as there is occasion, with sincere
and truly Christian charity.
The book of Psalms alone, if you learn
it Alright, is able to make you forever hap
py. q God of what source of blessing
and JOY do they deprive themselves who
reject or neglect it! 1t isa public maga-
zine of heavenly wisdom, in which every
one may find that which is meet for him :;
the ignorant, instruction; the learned, ma
terials for study; the afflicted comfort !;
and the contentcd, recreation There arc
rcpentant tears for the guilty, and songs of
thanksgiving for the faithful; prescrvatives
against vice, attrNctiyes and excitcments to
piety, and lessons for all kinds of virtues.
And the wonder is, that these high, useful,
and necessary things are all presented to us
there in the delicious sonncts of a graceful
and pleasing poetry, as in SO many vases of
pearl, and diamonds, and omeralds, to in
duce us to receive them the more readily
y wise invention of our great Master! in
which we have together pleasure and prof
1T, refrcshmcnt and instruction of SOUL at
once singing and learning what is most nee
essary for us May it please him to bless
this Divine artifcc by which he invites and
allures us to himself, and so touch our
hearts by the efficacy of his Spirit, that as
he draws us to him with those holy cords of
his sweetness and love, we also may freely
and ehecrfully run after him to the end,
that having faithfully followed him in this
"OAipj hO may III VilO uCAI lOuSS uS WlUn
himself in thcsanctuary of his glory, where
bearing our part with the angels, we shall
bless and glorify him eternally.
The Southern Baptist says "From a
private letter Nov. 2, received from J. M.
G. Breaker, pastor Of the Baptist church in
Beaufort, we learn that on the previous Sab
bath, he baptised seventy two more persons
making five hundred and fifty -four in all,
baptise'l by him this year, OF whom eight
were whites, and all The rest colored. There
has been no haste or precipilancyin bring.
ing them forward, or in baptising them. =
This is one of the most interesting Instances
Of conversions and baplisms which our
country and age has Witnessed"
MUcn IS A SMALL PLAcE.-& very cele.
brated Scotch divine says: "The world
we iuhabit must have had an origin; that
origin must have consisted in cause; that
cause must have been intelligent that in.
telligeuce must bago been efficient; that
efficiency must have been ultimate chat
ultimate power must have been supreme !;
and thai which always was and IS supreme,
W know by the Fame Of Godp
AZ ass covered with Is more res,
pcctcd than q horse Wit aekesaddlc. 3
TpISK to-day, and Rorreg.