Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1871-09-08

what the Bibic has Done.

| nat the BlDlc mas Done. ,i&
The following is on extract from, the elo.
quent address Of the Rev. sDESDuff, 'ot the
late annual meeting of the British and For.
eign Bible Society:
There is something about the Bible after
ala power and an influence which no other
possesses What we have 10 testify is this,
that within the memory of many here present
this Bible message, this artioulato message Of
peace and pardon, and friondliness aud kind.
ness aud good will to oil mon, has, by the
hcralds of salvation, beon actually girdlng
the whole zone Of this globe If ours. Yes,
unrclaxed by torrid heat, unberumbed by
arctic coid,iit Gun point to trophies Of the
GROSS in every cline There ore those here
from the cold north, who, like Archdcacon
Hunter, could tell of tho triumphs of the Bi.
bic in Rupert's Land. There arc those here
from the torrid heat, who can tell of its tri
umphs under the tropical sun. Yes, it has,
as conqueror entered the palaces Of kings,
and the castelatcd mansions Of great chiefs.
1t has raised up into more than earthly royal.
ty the tenants of the humble wigwam. 1t hus
| controlled the deliberations of senates. 1t has
settled the uproar Of tatooed warriors welding
tho murderous tomakawk 1t has arrested
and tanned marauding hordcs Of the wilder.
ness, making thom fling away their beads and
sheir gongs-ay, and their paint and their
feathers, which only tended to make naked.
ness itself more hidoous. 1t has pierced into
the coarsest hcathcn intellect, and rouscd into
action its slumbcring faculties, and quickoncd
them into spiritual activity. 1t has melted
into contrition the most obdurate savage
heart, and cnchaincd it's wayward rowing de.
sircs md impcrious impulses and purified
and regulated them too with fascination and
| power vastly transoendng anything that
hope ever imagined or fear convinced. In
thousand instances it has made the thieyish
honest, the lying truthful, the churl liberal,
the extravagant frugal 1t has 10 thousand
Instances converted the cruel, unfeeling heart
into kndliness and good will it has turned
dlscord and frantic reyelry into the harmoncs
of sacred song. 1t has drought its way into
the darksome caverns Of debasng ignorance,
and illunlined them with the rays of celestial
light; it has gone down into tho dens Of the
foulcst lnfamy, and reared affairs of devotion
there. 1t has mingled it's voice with the
raging tempest 1t has alighted upon tho
CORY battlefield, and poured the balm of con.
ISOLATION into the soul of the dying hero. 1t
has Oh an errand Of mercy visited the loath.
some dungeon, braycd the famine, confronted
the pestilence and plague. 1t has wrenchcd
the iron rod from the grasp of oppression,
and dashed the fiery cup from the lips of in.
temperance. 1t has strown flowers over the
grave Of old enmities, and woven garlands
round the altar Of the temple Of peace.
"Thcse are but few of the mighty achieve.
ments which follow as retinuc of splendor
in the train of that blessed Book which circu.
lates all over hcworld. has survived the fires
and the horror Of the Internal Inquisiton,
the terrible confedcracy Of Jcsuits, the blight
aud mi!dew of British infdclity, the iupous
socialisms and athcisms of France, the terri
bic pantheism and Tationalism of Germany
aye, and it has survived, in the midst Of in.
Vulnerable changes that have subvertcd once
powerful dynastics, and scattered to the winds
Of heaven every memorial Of human glory.
And 1t will still survive the shock of nations
aud the corruptlons of human dcpravity. 1t
will so on fourishing, too, when the Koran
of the Mussulman, the Talmud of the Rab
binst, the Iendavesta of the Pursec, the We.
das of the Brahm;n, and the demoralizcd dog.
mas of the Socialist and Matcr;alist, the iufa.
nous, blasphemous, dogmata Of the Pautheist,
the lying legends Of the Papst, the truth
pcrverting traditions of the Romnnizing Rit
nalist, are all consigned in distinguishnble
dlshonor to common grave, with no one to
act the part of chief moarncr ut the funeral
II will still survive when all the kngdoms
of this word, all the lordly hierarohics of idol
airy aud superstition nrc forever swallowed up
amid the ovcrpowcring glories Of Messiah $
reign"
WORSE SCARED TRAN Hurt Charleston
is utterly "dcmoralzcd," aud without any
good reason. The official information in our
possession is rather encouraging than the ad
verse, and yet the people are ns pnnic.strcken
as though the fever ragged in half the houses
in the city. Duriug the week ending last Sat
urday, thore we're six deaths from fever, and
since Saturday, We have reports of eleven
more. This total ofsevcntecn deaths, in nine
or ten days, does not, VIC repeat, justify any
wild excitement or violent alarm. A largo
number Of strangers have gone away. This
hns the effect of diminishing the field in which
the fever would first operate, and where
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