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

lgesAv, JANyAnv u, 1882:
had faltcd to the greatest heights of
earthFbplondor and dominion, when this
natiod with history so august and go in~
splri8 was about to be dismembcred and
tho pHple scattered in captivity; when the
star ofts destiny seemed about to 90 down in
darkufs, dcsolation aud blood, then it was
that tp great prophets, with heaven lit
VISION piercing through tho desccnding
nightdn glowing language foretold the
dawn q brighter day for tho world: "For
unto u\ a child is born, unto us son is
given;hnd the government shall be upon
his sbhlders, and his name shall be called
WondEful, Counsellor, The Mighty God,
The Il Eerlasting Father, Tho Prince of
Peaco. OF the increase of his government
and peEe there shall be no end, upon tho
thronohf David ond upon his kingdom to
order ! and to establish j. with Judgment
and wih justice from henccforlh even for
ever. Phc zeal Of the Lord of hosts will
perford this" Aud this memorable
prophdy, Sunday School scholars through
out th world have been studying us q text
lesson This great Christmas day. l call
your al lention to one other prophecy, ut.
tered ono Of the greatest prophets Of
captivity:
cap whilo l was speaking and praying
and co fessing my sin aud the sin Of my
people tsrcal and presenting my supplication
before he Lord my God for the holy noun
tain of)my God; yea, whic was speak
ing inPrayer even tho man Gabriel, whom
l had zen in tho vision at tho beginning,
being 4uscd to fly swiftly, touched me
about te timo of the evening oblation.
And b informed me and talked with me
and saf, . Daniel, am now como forth
to givolthce skill and understanding. At
tho b$inning of thy supplications tho
comma dment came forth and am come
to show thee; for thou art greatly beloved;
therefdc understand tho matter and cou-
sidor tle'Ysion. Seventy weeks arc deter
mined Upon thy people and upon thy city
to finish the transgrcssion and to mako an
end OF ans aud to mako reconciliation for
iniquity and to bring u everlasting right
eousnesaa and to seal up the vision and
prophecSand to annoint tho most holy.
Know therefore aud understand that from
tho going forth of tho commandment to
restore aud build Jerusalem unto the
Messiah tho Prince shall be seven weeks
and thee score and two weeks; the street
shall be built again and the wall, even in
troGblcoW times. And after three score
and two Weeks shall Messiah bo cut off,
but not to)hlmsclf and the people Of the
prinoo that shall come shall destroy the
vity and the sanctuary; and tho end thereof
shall be With food and unto the end of
the war Gsoations are determined. Aud
lie shall cpnlirm tho covenant with many
for ono wick; and in the midst of the week
he shall cluso tbs sacrifice and obation to
cease"
1t is the record of history, my brethren,
that sevdnty weeks, four hundred and
ninety days, which in tho language of
prophecy, is four hundred and ninety years,
from The very year and the very month
and the very day Of tho month that lho
commission was signed by Artaxerxcs
JIonginus, king of Pcrsia, to restore Jcru-
salem md given to Ezra, Jesus of Naza.
rctll, the Messiah, was cut OF in Jerusalem,
but no; for himself.
Who can read and understand this great
prophecy, which forctells not only the
event four hundred and ninety years be-
fOrehapd, but tho definite time, the year
and tie mouth and tho day of the occur
rcnoe, and not be persuaded that tho light
shining in upon tho suppliant prophet is
tie light of the all-powerful, omnicient
God.
-Four Thousand years beforehand God
announced to our fallen progenitors the
coming of the joyful day we celebrate in
tho great promise, which our suffering raco
mover allowed to bo cXpungcd from memory,
that "in tho fullness OF the time" one born
of a woman should appear in our world,
who should suite and outurn aud destroy
the works of the temptor, the old serpent
the devil, who had smittcn and polluted tho
Paradise that God had made.
Two thousand years passed by and tho
promise was renewed to Abraham and con-
lirmed by an oath in tho immutablo cove
nant in tho assurance that in son descend
ing from him all tho families of tho earth
shall be blessed.
Five hundred years from tho day of
Abraham, in the beginning of another
epoch, Moses, whom God had chosen und
prepared to deliver his people and who had
been allowed 10 talk face TO face with God,
recalling all the wonderful dclivcranccs of tho
past and looking down through the long vista
of tho coming far of years, comforted his
people about to be bercavcd by his own death,
'"The Lord thy God shall raise up unto
thee prophet from tho midst of thee of
thy brethren like unto me; to him shall yc
hearken."
Nearly thousand years from Moses,
when the fortunes Of that people had