Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1857-07-25

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WAS still steadily thinning the ranks of the
enemy, when Napoleon descended from
Mt. Tabor with his little band while sin
gle twclve-pounder, fred from the heights,
told the wearicd klcber that he was rush
Ing to the rescue. Then, for the first time,
he took the offensive, and pouring his en-
thusiastic followers ON tlIc foe, carried death
and terror over the field. Thrown into
confusion, and tramplcd under foot, that
mighty army rolled turbulently back to-
wards the Jordan, whore Murat was anx-
iously waiting tominglcin the fight. Dash
ing with his cavalry among the disordercd
ranks, he sabrcd them down without mcr-
cy, and ragged like lion amid the prcy.-
This chiyalric and romantic warrior declar-
ed that the remembrance ofthc scenes that
once transpircd on Mount Tabor, and on
these thrice consecratcd spots came to him
III the hottest of the fight, and noryed him
with ten-fold courage.
AS the sun went down over the plains of
Palestine, and twilight shed it's dim rays
over the rent and troddcn and dcad-covorcd
field, a sulphurous cloud hung around the
summit Of Mount Tabor. The smoke of
battle had settled there, where once the
cloud of glory rested, while groans and
Shricks and cries rent the air. Nazareth,
Jordan and Mount Tabor! what snots for
battlc-tields
Roll back twenty centuries and aoain
view that hill. The day is bright and beau
tiful az then, and the same rich oriental
landscape is smiling in the same SUM-
There is Nazareth with its busy population
the same Nazareth from which Klcbcr
marched his army; and there is Jordan
rolling its bright waters along-the same
on which .>onaparte stood with his cannon.
and the same beautiful plain where rolled
the smoke of battle, and struggled thirty
thousand men in mortal combat Bit how
different is the scene that is passing there.
The Son of God stands on that height, and
casts his eve over the quiet valley throuph
which Jordan winds its silver current
Three friends arc beside Him; they have
walked together up the toilsome way, and
now the .orr stand, mere spccks on the dis
tant summit. Far away to the northwest
shines the blue Mcditcrranean-al around
is the great plains of EIsdraclon ard Galilcc
eastward the lake of Tibcrias dots the
Landscapes, while Mount Carmel lifts its ma
kcd summit in the distance. But the plo-
rous landscape at their feet is forgotten in
sublimcr scene that is PASSING before
them. The son of Mary-the carpenter of
Nazarcth-th wandercr with whom they
have alto and drank and travelled on foot
many weary league, in all the intimacy of
companions and friends. begins to chance
before their ewes. Over his soilcd and
light, steadily Frightening into intenser
beauty, till that form elows With such splen-
dor that it seems to waver to and fro and
dissolve in the still radiance.
The three astonshed friends paze on it
in speochless admiration, then turn to that
familiar face. But 10, greater change has
passed over it. The man has nut on the
God, and that sad and solemn countenance
which has been so often seen stoopno over
the couch of the diving, and entering the
door Of the hut of 20 erty; and passing
through the streets of Jerusalem, and naus.
ing by the weary wayside-aye, bcdcwed
with the tears Of pity-now burns like the
sun in bis midday splendor. Meekuess has
given way to majesty-s sadness to dazzling
look of pity to the grandeur of
a God. The still radiance of heaven sits
on that serene brow, and all around that
divine form flows an atmosphere of strange
and wondrous beauty. Heaven has pour
ed its brightness over that consecrated spot,
and on the beams of light which glitter
there, Moses and Elias have descended; and
wrapped in the samo shining vestiments,
stand beside him, Wonder follows wonder,
foi those ihleo gI;ttoring forsS;.s arc talking
with each other and amid the thrilling ac-