Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1861-01-26


scrcuhtS shall he be unto his brethren" We
may here remark that the word, in the orig
ina language in which the Scriptures were
written, here translated servant" may with
equal propricty be translated slave" and
such is generally its meaning in the Scrip
lures, unless by some qualifying phrase a cir
cumStancc, its meaning be otherwise inter
prctcd. We have, therefore, in this passage
of Holy Writ, uttered by a Patriarch and
Prophet, distinct prophecy as to the future
scrvtude Of the descendants of Ham; and it
is we'll known that those descendants 1mopL,d
-i/ricn. Again, in verse 81, we have this
declaration by the same Patriarch and Proph.
ct "God shall enlarge Japhcth and he shall
dwell in the tents of Shcm and Cdnaon shuU
be his Scrcont, i. c., the servant of .Japhcth.
These three sons Of Noah, {" Shcm, Ham
and Japhcth,'') were the progcnitors of the
race of man after the flood and it is we'll
authenticated fact that in the course of time,
descendants of Shcm settled Asia of Ham in
Africa and of Japhcth in Europe, which were
the three great divisions of tic world Now,
may we not perceive the fulillmcnt Of the
prophecy respecting the Enlargement of
Juphcth," in the fact, that the nations of Eu
rope, especially Great Britain, have spread
themselves over more continents and islands
'I' an t''N OtiIEi iI'lItIlS 'Dul lbHtUnCr. al
though their actual population is not so great
as at least the nations of Asia. 1t is the boast
of Great Britain that +" the sun never sets up
on her Dominious I" Has not .Jnphcth thus
been enlarged? pretend net TO be an infnl-
libc interpreter of Prophecies, but this looks
very much lii fulGllmcnt of the Grst proph-
ccy contained in tho verse | have puutcd-
But it is added "he q. g., JaphctlO shall
dwell in thc tents Of Shcm, and Canaan shul
be his servant" The descendants of Shcm.
as before stated, settled in Asia; but it is
generally believed that in the course of time.
some tribes Ct the Asiatics found their way
through the Bchring Straits into what is now
called North America; and, when america
was discovered by Columbus. those tribes were
and are still called .llteIIcon Iuli0aS These
Indians dwclt in "tonts or ciy,ruDs and
the fact row starcs us in the face, is that
"Japhcth Cor Europaans) dwell in the tents
of Shcm (hSittics)" the latter having been
driven irom THEN possessions by the former.
And the latter part OF the prophecy (' Canaan
shall be his servant is fulfilled, in part Mt
least, in the fact that the children of Ham
(Afrlcans) are the servants of these dwcllcrs
in the tents of Shom Shcm only soiourncd
in the land in tents, whilst Jophcth d,cciA,
here in cities, towns and villages. Again
say, profess not to be an intallblc interpret
Ell of Prophecies, nor do / give this us an ORIG
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