Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1882-01-12


the news of his coming should, bo told ia
tho remotest ends of the earth.
There are very many suggestions occur--
ring to US, and we have no doubt that these
suggestions would bo multiplied in the
ratio of our information = why God did not
send forth his son, made Of woman, made
under the law, until tho fulness of tho time
was como; and there are worry mauy consid-
erations strikingly showing that tho period,
when, according to our gospel, as we'll as
according to history, he actually did come,
was indeed tho fulnees of The time; we
propose on this occasion to coufine our at-
tention 10 two leading thoughts: first, that
tho course of life, both among the Jew and
tho heothen, had revealed tho utter impo,
tency OF merely human agencies to arrest
the downward course of sin to con,nlcto
'noral degradation; and secondly, that sufli-
clent time had elapsed to aIlow the great
'rsMncnt from prophcsy to be completed.
Tho primary object Of the Mosaic lnsti-
tute, the law, seoms to havo been not SO
much to reveal tho Saviour, rs to reveal
SIN, to demonstrate tho lcogths to which
sin would carry people. It was iuaugu-
rated from Sinai in circumstances Of sub.
lime, supernatural dread and terror.
"And it came TO pass on tho third day in
the morning that there were thupdcrs
and lishtnings and tho voico Of trumpet,
exceeding loud; so that all tho people that
were in the camp tremblcd. And loses
brought forth tho people out Of the camp
to meet with God, and they stood at the
neither end of tho mount. Aud Mount
Sinai was altogether on smoke, because the
Lord descended upon it 10 fire, and tie
smoke thereof asccnded as tho smoke of
furnace and the whole mount quaked greatly.
And when the voice of tho trumpet sounded
long and waxcd louder and louder, Moses
spako and God answered him BY voice.
And all tho people saw tho thuuderines aud
tho lightnings and tho noiso Of the trumpet
and the mountain smoking; aud when The
people saw it they removed and stood afar
of And they said unto NJ Ioscs, speak thou
unto US and wc will hear, but let not God
speak with US, lest we die"
The history of tho Jews, having the
Mosaic Institutions, the law, and tho CON-
mandants, from the timo Of the solemn,
preteronatural Inauguration of the theooracv
until the inal destruction Of their polly
by the demolition of Jerusalem under the
Noman's, is record of sin and its terrible
retributions. Those among them, 10 whom
tho whole Mosaic economy had its fullest
! scope, who had embibcd most largely tho
very spirit of tho thcocracy, their aaintlicst
and purest mcn wcro those who were not
resting IN the law, with its commandments
and sacrifices and offerings; thcr holy
prophets and martyrs were those who were
looEing forward the most eagerly to the timc
OF the appearance Of tho Rcslorer, the De-
ilVerer, the Mcssias, the Prince Of Peace.
"For the law having shadow of good
things to come and not tho very image Of the
things, onn never with those sacrifices,
which they offered year by year continually,
make tho comcrs thcrcunto perfect. For
then would they not have ceased to bo Of
fered! because that the worshippcrs once
purged should have had no more conscience
of sins. But in those sacrifices there is
remembrance again made of sins every
year. For it is not possible that tho blood
OF bulls and of goats should take away
sins. But in these sacrifices there is
remembrance against sins every year"
Again in another place it is written, "Tho
sting of death is sin and tho strength Of
sin is the law"
1t we turn our attention to the heather
world NO shall fiud that tho Romans, who
had become the lords of the unions, while
they had made wonderful progress, cspe-
oially in the military and political depart
ments, had fearfully doterioratcd in all
moral, spiritual life.
Tho picture of pagan manners, drawn by
Io Al
when they know God, they gIoriicd him not
as God, neither were thankful; but because
vain in their imagiuations, and their foolish
heart was darkeDed. PROPOSING themselves
to be wise, they became fools. And changed
tho glory of tho uncorruptible God into an
image made like unto corruptible man and
to birds and fourfooted beasts and creeping
things"
The fulness of the timc did not como in
our world until there had boen sufficient
interval to give scope aud cogeucy and i'm
prcssvcness in tho great argument from
prophecy.
Simultaneous with the beginning Of the
inhction of the terrible death penalty for
tho great transgrcssion, was the gracious
promise Of God that at some period in tho
coWlnS luturc tncre Sn0uld arise seed OF
tho woman Tint should bruise tho head Of
the serpent. Tho great promise was re-
newed in the Abrahamio covenant; and it
was declared to Abraham that in his seed
all tho families of the earth should bo
blessed.
The patriarohal dispcnsation passed away;
deliyerer appeared to people in bondage,
who led them out Of Egypt across tho Red
Sea through tho Wilderness to tho land of