Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1889-10-03
by THOMPSON. SMITH s JAYNEs.

Coz. 4 is inool,sfstsi 20 ~ isii II
to say that it came by chance. Ex-
perience never has shown q watch:
made by chance. II the universe,
with its regular and well balanced
systems and motions and It's bea,tti.
full gradations Of vegetable and ami
nal existence and growth, came and
is5regulated by ohanoe, then chance
must have an Intelligence and GREAT
i've power greater than the .wisest
man and would be no longer chance,
but God worthy ofahomage. Mol
There is q designer, a maker with q
purpose--t5ou. Fl, N 5..fi +
(d)sI assume, because lis is 30 easy
to believe, that God is the governor
as we'll as the creator ofithe universe !;
and that he is perfect in wisdom,
power, holiness, mercy and truth.
(c9 also assume, because it &C.
cords with universal experience, that
every man has at some time been
guilty of some want Of conformity
unto or transgression Of the rule Of
right; that he has not always done
what he ought to have done and
that he has not left undone every
thing that he ought to have left un-
done. 3,'
(d) God, the Great o, sand gov
ernor, has tho right to establish the
rule of right for his creatures, and it
is reasonable to suppose that ne has
revealed that rule to them.
(e.) 1t is natural that such a reve-
lation should be given in perma-
nent form and should more fully in
struct us in the nature of God and
the rule Of right, how we are to be-
have towards him and towards our
fellow men, than by mere reason we
can learn.
! (E) The Bible is such revela.
ton.
/. The Old Testament was written
by about twenty-seven different men,
from time to time, during about
eleven hundred years, beginning
with Job and ending with Malachi,
four hundred and twenty years be-
fore the birth of Christ.
The New Testament was written
by about eight different men, from
time to time, during ,stifty-seyer
years, beginning with Matthew, seven
years, and ending with John, sixty
four years, after the death of Christ
Josephus, a historian of the high
est repute, an unconverted Jew, was
born A. ID. 4 and wrote during a
period of twenty years, ending sixty
years after the death Of Christ. He
cites numerous Egyptian, Chaldean,
Phnnician and Greek authors, who
show the antiquity of the Jewish ma.
ton and the authenticity of the books
of the Old Testament. He gives an
account of these books and they arc
identical with those in the Greek
translation, made over two hundred
years before the birth of Christ, and
now recognized as Of the Scripture
canon. The Jews, ancient and mod.
ern, received these books as genuine,
and held to them even unto DEATH
as stated both in Scripture and by
the authors cited by Josephus. The
Jews could not have been deceived
in regard to this matter.
The five books purporting to have
been written by Moses allege that
he, as Gods vicegerant, had led the
very people to whom he was writing
from Egypt, through the Red Sea
and had for many years, in the will
derness, fed them on mama; that
he was, under Gods direction, writ.
ing a history of the creation and Of
tho world, so far as it concerned
them, and also delivering to them 6
code OF oooiesiastical and municipal
laws, at the time stating that they
were to continue to keep the Sab
bath day holy, which had been com.
manded at the creation, because
| God had rested on the seventh day
to keep up the rite of circumcision
which had been instituted at the
time and in token of the covenant
made between God and their fathe,
Abraham; also commanding them tc
preserve Aaron's rod as mementc
of Gods miraculous intervention ir
their behalf in Egypt; to put up apo'
of mama that their children might
see the bread wherewith God had
fed them in the Wilderness to keeI
the feast of the Passover instituted
to memorialize the deliverance from
Pharaoh, and to dedicate to the Lord
tho first born of man and beast in
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