Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1878-08-01


aud Elizabeth tore the faith from her.
Then the cradle of tho Church, restored to
her by the hand of her repentant daughter,
would become Christian city, and Jeru-
salem again would be. the joy Of tho whole
earth"
JEWS DON'T WANT PALESTINE.
Our jewish exchanges are equally jubi-
lont with our Christians. Tho Reformer
admits that Lord BoaconeGed's desire to
place the Holyi Land under tho English
protection admits of no doubt, and that the
effect Of this would be to improve the con-
dition of the Jews residing thero is perfectly
suro. 1t would also make tho Holy Land
desirable place of residence for the OPP
pressed Jows of Russian Poland and the
Danubian prinoipalitics, who would no
doubt settle there in large numbers. But
that Lord Bcacons6eld or any othor sano
person should think Of restoring "tho laws
Of Moses and tho old jewish systohii '-and
of reviving the Jewish nation is out of tho
question. Such restoration could mover DO
brought about by human agencies and is
not looked for or wanted by tho Jews
themselves. Tho Jews are now SO nume-
rous that Palestine could not hold ono half
Of them. Tho old Jewish system is alto.
gethcr untitled to tho ago in which we live.
Tho laws of Moses, as far as they affect the
question of civil government, aro aud must
forever romain obsolete; they wero admira--
bio in their day, but their day hos long
since gono by.
Says the Je,oish Acssenger---."Thc world
moves!" Religious lborty is now princi.
plo of international law. Where it is do.
MED the great powers may intervene for it's
enforcement. No part of the triumph at
Berlin is of such universal consequence as
this declaration of human right. America
was century in advance of Europe, and
America, while she did not sign the treaty,
of Berlin, had previously, through the Con-
sul at Buchurest, secured tho concurrence
of the European Powers 10 action which
anticipated the conclusions of diplomacy.
For tho frat time in the history Of man
| nations claim to existance as State is
made dependent upon its Acceptance of the
great principles of religious equality for all
oreeds. Thirty years ago bAt ,one of the
Jew full civil rights; and succossiN ely in
Great Britain, Austria, Germany, Itay and
Turkey have tho barriers been swept away
that separated the Hebrew from his neigh
bors. Can Russia long delay tho conces-
sion in her own dominions of civil and re-
ligious equality, which her veteran
Chancellor sustained as the right of the
Jowa in Roumania, Bulgaria and Sorviap'
Our out Of town religious exchanges are
editorially pitched to the same key.
They look for tho building Of the Euphrates
Valley Railroad and the opening up Of
Asia to Christian Influences and Christian
missionaries as never before. Ono Of them
tho Baptist Outlook, Of Brooklin-looks
upon the action Of the Berlin Congress as
tho unconscious fuliiment of prophecy.
Russia has stopped 'the way Of the Kings
Of tho East" the Childron Of God and
believers in our Lord Jesus Christ have
been prepared. The British Gag waving
over Cyprus makes all Turkey tributary to
England, and secures for tho Gospel wide
and etfectual door of entrance into tho lands
whore the Moslem's sword has alone
hitherto boen the law" Referring to tho
articles of the treaty which declare religious
liberty, the Outlook says: ''Tbus the River
Euphrates is dried up. The Turkey Of the
past is gone. Thought has met thought;
will hos come in contact with will; but
above all and through all tho hand of God
is seen. Noiselessly the prophecy recorded
in Daniel XII, 44-45, has been fulfilled"
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