Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1871-02-03


turning to the account which Neandor gives
OF Julans persecution of christianity with
the hopo of re establishing the rites of Pa.
ganism upon its ruins that although he caus.
cd much suffering amongst the followers of
Jesus, and succeeded by means of trickcry,
brbes and threats, in inducing not few to
apostatize, like himself, from the one, true
faith his efforts, upon tho whole, were never.
thcless ovcrrulcd by Him who promises ever
to be with and bless His cause and people, to
the furtheranco of our holy religion, whilst
by his carly death the frai fabric of Pagan.
ism which he sought to erect was demolished
at single blow.
One Of his cherished designs, in particular,
10y the accomplishment Of which he, doubtless,
hoped to achieve for himself great glory, and
bring confusion upon believers IN the gospel,
was SO s'gnally aud singularly thwarted and
the historians brief account of it conveys
comforting lesson SO similar to that suggested
ny the incident given above, that We can not
forbcar adding it,
| julian, just as the Pogans before him was
not very unfavornbly disposed toward Juda-
ism and the Jews. lie regarded the God of
the Old Testament as "thc great Architect
and Ruler of the whole visible world, whom
the Pagans also worshippcl under different
names" He protested, indeed, to Jews that
he worshipcd the God of Abraham their ia.
ther more as Abraham did tl,an they. "Siuce
then he entertained a high respect for the
jewish worship" says Ncandcr. as being, al.
so, can ancient national institution he con-
ceIved the wish to restore the Temple ut Jc-
rusa'cm, as splendid memorial Of his reign;
in doing which he, perhaps, hoped also that
he should be able to defeat the prophecy of
Jesus, although this had already been fully
accomplished. lie expended vast sums upon
this object but the work which had been
ceed. Volumes of fire, bursting forth from,
the suhterrcncan vaults which hni been omen.
ed, destroyed the unfinished luhors and
frightened the workmcn Although this may
have proceeded from natural causes, yet
might it be warning rcbuke to the Empc
ror, that no human will could re. build what
h I'd once been destroyed by divine judg-
M m,nt"
BY these two Interesting facts We have
"frcsh light shed upon the impcrishable en-
lurancc of the Holy Scripture" We are
newly assured by them that the Word of the
Lord shall not pass away that it can nett or
be banishcd from the earth, nor in one jot or
TITLE fail or prove false. No weapon formed
against it can prosper Visitor.
SPEECH OF GEN. FRANK P. BLAIn.-In
responding to his nomin ,tion for United
States Senator by the Democrats of the Mis-
souri, Legislature General Blair said
'I shall cndeavor to carry out, as far as I
have the ability, tho principles proclaimed
for me by the friends who placed me in nom
ination. l am Democrat, and am also
Liberal Upon this platform which was an
nounccd in our election, and which gave back
to Missouri her liberty and her freedom, upon
that platform | stand with all men who will
stand with me. l hope and believe that
new and more brilliant career is now opened
for our State that we will wisely leave the
past undisturbed that we have not in our
hearts tho spirit Of retaliation for the wrongs
that we havo suffered in this State, because
we have higher and nobcr mission. We
have to do with greater objects than Crap
pling with things that arc gone and that can
not be rcmediel 1t is our duty, and tho
highest and noblest, to go forward to aid our
fellow citizens in the Southern States to the
liberties which VIC have achieved. And
know no better way to accomplish that than
to call to our side tho noble and generous al.
lies who aided us in our recent struggle. We
have another duty before US. 1t is the duty
to strike down those monstrous monopolies
with which the millionaries in tho East have
sappcd the lifo blood Of the people of the
West In this duty We need tho s,me allies,
and without them we cannot succeed with
them we will achieve results equally glorious
as those which wc achieved in our late con-
test in November"
NO. There was something noble and touch.
ind in the last words of the dying General
Rcnault, in reply to n Sister of Charity who
leaned over his couch and said, "shall we
pray for you 2" The hcro's eye lighted for
an instant with it's wonted fire, and with his