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nw I -.n in .?milli m i mt^mmtmmmmm^tmm TERMS: Published ft'vorv Thursday morning. For subscription, <pl.5G per annum, strictly in advanco; for six mont IIB, 16 oonts; for four months, 60 cent?. Advertisements inserted at one dollar nor square of ono Inch or loss for tho first insertion and fifty couts for each sub speruont insertion. Obituary Notices exceeding five linos, Tributes of Respect, Communications of a personal character, whon admissablo, and Announcements of Candidates s?U? bo ohnrged for as advertisements. Job Printing neatly and cheaply oxoou tod. Necessity compels us to adhoro st rielly to tho requirements of Cash Payments. . ?ESSAY BEAD BY JUDGE NORTON TO THE ELDERS' AND DEACONS' ASSOCI ATION OFOCONEE COUNTY, AT THEIR MEETING IN AUGUST, 1869, AND PUBLISHED BY RE QUEST OF THE ASSOCIATION. WHY Afc! I A CHRISTIAN ? 1st. i HI ea use ? want w bo. (a.) Ono fino morning, as it is said, Peter tho Groat, Emperor of Russia, took a nail. In tho after noon ho landed to avoid a storm which was suddenly.-coming upon bim. Ono of tho boats, fillod mostly with soldiers, failing to land boforo the storm burst, was dashed by tho furious wind upon a roof. Tho in mates know not how to do. Tho Emperor ordored a boat to their re lief, but its crow was too unskilled and cowardly to perform tho dan gerous task. Tho poor, deserted men on tho reef rent the air with piteous cries for help. The Empo ror sprang into hie own boat and bado all who had hearts to daro for their brethren to follow bim. Un able, on account of the roof, by tho greatest exertions, to bring bib boat within succoring distance, ho plunged into tho raging billows and swam now on tho top of tho mountain wave, , now in tho depths bonoath-to thc ; stranded boat, and himself became tho skillful pilot which tiley ncedod, Tho mon, revived by the self-sacri fice and cqurago of their groat chief tain in their behalf, renew their of forts and he doxtrously guides thom through the rocks and broakers safe to land. I want to bolieve that that famous rulor lived ; that ho possessed suoh nobility, such courage, such love for his fellows, even his humble, helpless subjects. (6.) I have heard that there is n God ; that ho oreatcd and prcsorvet mc and all things; that he is thc perfection of goodnobs, mercy, jus tice, truth, wisdom and power ; that bo is tho ono only living and true God ; that there are three persons ir tho God-head : the Father, tho Son and thc Holy Ghost, and these throe are ono God, thc same substance, equal in power and glory ; that he requires mo to worship, honor and obey him, and lovo him with all my hoart and my neighbor as myself I want to bolieve that God is ; and believing that, I feel that his require mcnts aro just. ? also feel that 1 have, through my nogligont igno rance and willful folly, broken hit commandments ; that I am rightlj condemncd-Mim a shipwrecked sol dier. I know not what to do . with out a pilot. I havo hoard that Jesus Christ, God tho Son, came into the world and died to savo mc and all believing sinnors. I want to boliovt it. I want to lovo and bo grateful to him. I havo heard that tho liol) Ghost constantly off ors to -teach mt thc truth and guard mo in its ob servance. I want to bo so taugln and guarded. I feel the need of it I have heard that all things work to gether for good to God's elect ; th a tho happiness of'this thought is ovei present with tho highest type o Christian ; that ho oiiduros pain witl joy, knowing that his light, affliction which is hut for a moment, worketli for him a far moro excoeding am eternal woight of glory. In thii world of disappointments and trial I want tho consolation of such a bc liof. I havo heard that there is i Heaven, where Christians will go where mortal will put on iinmot'tali ty ; whero no sin is ; whore my owl sinful naturo and all my sinfu thoughts, words and actions will bi left behind; where tho same may Ix said of all its inhabitants ; wboro ] can have perfect confidence in my Bolf ano in all my associates. I wan to boliove that thoro is such a plac? and such perfection. I long to liv? there. 2d. I?eoauso thc evidence satisfioi my mind. (a.) It is easy to believe that then is a God. T am so constituted that 1 am convinced that wheresoever then is an effect, there must be a cause wheresoever there is a design, some thing moving for an npparor t pur poso, thoro must have boon a designer A watch, for itistanco, keops time and I am convinced that it was mach for that purpose So God gives us t great timo keeper, tho earth revolv ing on its own axis, producing daj and night, and around tho sun pro ducing tho regular roturn of tho sea sons, and thus demonstrates creative power, which could only bo that ol 1 ? "". "?? 11 1 ' 1 I"?.?'.-...-1?. ? ..*..^-?n.M:-l..-^- w^--.,,. ? , I .1 I. ,1 .,.^..., , ^ - ' ?-,,",,",.",, jj'*, ? .1. ? I ? - 111 .. Il ? J.LH.1J I..JU.H ^--r^^ 1 . .._.~._ To Thine Omi tielf Be True and It ffluat Follow ?. the Night the X>t?y, Thou Cana'* No? Then Be FnHe to Aoy Mau. WALHALLA, SOUTH CAROLINA, OCTOBER 3, 1880. VO?A?MM XL.-NO 40. God. Ii lb lu?Oiioipttiiii wit?? rcsccn to say that it carno by ohance. Ex perience hover has shown a watch made by ohanoo. If the univert?, with its rogular and well balanced systems and motions and its b?ailti ful gradations of vogetable and ani mal existence and growth,'oaino and is regulated by ohance, then ohance must havo an hitoUigo?oo and creat ive powor greaten than tho wisest man and would bo hplongor chance, but a God worthy o&homago. No! Thero is a designer, 'k maker with a purpose--Gui?. ((>.) I assume, because is is so oasy to believe, that God is tho governor as well as tho creator of the universe ; and that he is perfect in wisdom, powor, holiness, mo?oy and truth. (c.) I also assuihtf, because it ac cords with universal experience, that every man has at some time "been guilty of some want of conformity unto or transgression of tho rulo of right; that ho has not always done what ho ought to have done and that ho has not left undone every thing that ho ought to havo left un done. *. (i?.) God, tho oreat n and gov ernor, has tho right to establish the rule of right for his creatures, and it is reasonable to suppose that ho has revealed that rulo to thom. (e.) It is natural that such a reve lation should be given in a perma nent form and should moro fully in i struct us in tho nature of God and i tho rule of right, how wo aro to bc I havo towards him and towards our , fellow mon, than by mero reason wo can learn. (/.) Tho Bible is such a revela tion. 1. Tim Old Testament was written ii by about twenty-seven different mon, , from time to time, during about eleven hundred yours, beginning i with Job and ending w}th Malachi, i four hundred and twenty years be fore tho birth of Christ, i The Now Testament was written i by about oight differont men, from ? time to time, during fifty-seven . yoars, beginning with Matthow, sovci: i yoars, and ending with John, sixty i four years, after tho death of Christ i Josephus, a historian of thc high i est repute, an unconverted Jew, wai j born A. D. 4 and wroto during ? , period of twenty years, ending sixtj years after the death of Christ. IR I cites numerous Egyptian, Chaldean ' Phconioian and Greek authors, wlw . show tho antiquity.of the Jewish na , tion and tho authenticity of tho book . of the Old Testament. He gives ai [ account of these books and they ari ? identical with those in tho Greol i translation, made over two hundrec t years beforo the birth of Christ, am ? now recognized as of tho Soripturi ? canon. Tho Jews, ancient and mod } ern, recoivod these books as genuine ? and hold to them oven unto . death I as stated both in Scripture and h] ) tho authors citod by Josephus. Tin I Jews could not have boon deceiver, r in regard to this matter. . ) Tho five books purporting to hav ? been written by Moses allege tba t he, as God's vioegernnt, had led th . very people to whom ho was writinj - from Egypt, through the Red Ser t and had for many years, in tho wil r dorness, fed them on manna; thn f ho was, under God's direction, writ i ing a history of the creation and c , tho world, GO far as it concerne i them, and also delivering to them I code of ecclesiastical iiuil hiuiii?ip? ? laws, at the time stating that the s were to continue to keep tho Sal - bath, day holy, which had been com i manded at tho creation, beoaus ; God had vested on tho seventh day - to keej) up the rite of oiroumoisioi ) which had i>eon instituted at th 1 time and in token of tho covonan s mado between God and thoir fathc j Abraham ; also commanding thom t [ preservo Aaron's rod as a moment - of God's miraculous intorvontion i t thoir behalf in Egypt; to put up ape 3 of manna that thoir children migl 3 soo the bread wherowith God ha fed thom in tho wilderness ; to kee i thc foast of the Passover institute to memorialize tho dohvoranco froi ) Pharaoh, and to dodicato to tho Lor [ tho first born ol man and boast i 5 grateful memory that tho dostroyin ; angol spared the first born in thoa ? bouses whoso doors had bee: . sprinkled with tho blood of th . Paschal Lamb, on tho night that h , destroyed tho first born of Egyptia j mon and cattlo, irom tho first bor i of the King to that of tho captivo i . tlio dungeon. Ho told thom thu ' thoy know all thc30 facts which the . woro commanded to commemorate ? and they did, for thoso wore phyaici > facts about which they could nc f have beon deceived. Sc:ne; iufido1? say tbjit*'*b??9o five books wore written iu a later ago} but that oannot be,, for whonever they might havo boon written in after ages, those memorials, religious sorv?oes and laws would havo been found, being observed and taught to tho Jewish children, and no one could have persuaded tho Jews that thoso books, purporting to havo boon written by Moses and from that time kopt in tho ark and road ?o thom ovory seven years, woro at tho timo of such forgery, first writ tsa, ??or that thsiaselvos had boen complying with oivil and ecclesiasti cal laws there laid down with all its forms and ceremonies and had been colobrating unknown ovents, when suoh laws and .events wore t"hon first hoard of by thom ; or if tho Jews wore not observing those laws aud ceremonies and had not before heard of thora, they could not havo been persuaded that they woro doing so, nor that it was a mero renewal after a temporary cessation of that which they or thoir immedi ate ancestors had obsorved. Ber sides, tho Jews would never have tolerated a forgery which states suoh disreputable things of their ances tors as Noah's drunkenness, Abra ham's cowardice and falsehood, Ja cob's deceitfulness, the envy and treachery of Joseph's ten brothron, Judah's incest, and Aaron's calf i worshipped by tho whole, porverted nation. Tho testimony of tho Jews and Jofccphus as to the genuineness pf tho other Old Testament books is as strong as to thoso of Moses, but tho limits of this discourse prevents even its recapitulation here. Many authors, friendly and unfriendly to Christianity, who lived at the timo and very soon after the New Testa ment was written, satisfactorily es tablish that its books wore written at tho times and by tho porsons to whom they are respectively ascribed. This was never denied until after tho third century. Celsus, who wrote within sixty years of tho apos tolic age, insists , that tho Gospels were written by thoso personal friends and followers of Christ respect ively who claim to have written thora, but he undertakes to refute tho Christians out of their own bpoks. So with Porphyry, ,a phi losopher of tho third century ; and so with Julian the.apostate. Corinthus, the Heretics, tho Ebionites and the Nazarenes admitted the authenticity of the Gospels of Mark, Luke and John, but disoarded them on other grounds; also admitted that Paul wrote truthfully of his personal lifo and admitted tho authenticity of his epistles, but denied that ho was an apostle 2. Wo give credit to the undisput ed narrativos of facts mado by histo rians to their c?temporaries, especial ly such facts as, if untrue, would be likely to provoko public contradic tion. Tho enemies of Christianity wore bitter, intelligent and powerful, yet no contradiction of any fact stat ed in the New Testament, oxcept tho resurrection of Christ, appears to have been made until after tho third century. 8. The statements of both tho Old and New Testaments are corroborat ed by tho irresistible conclusion that if good men wrote thom they must bc true, and that bad mon would never havo written a book which commands all duty, forbids all sins and condemns their own souls to boll for all eternity. 4. Further corroborations aro the testimony of other writers, of monu ments, ?feo., in other nations, to many important facts hereinbefore men tioned to establish tho authenticity of thc Scriptures ; the perfeot accord of all tho parts of this book, written by about thirty-five different persons and from time to time, during a pe riod of sixtcon hundred yoars ; tho perfect nature of God thorein por trayed ; the unbending requirement of holy living; the wiso and loving plan by which beliovcrs aro cloth, d with tho righteousness of Christ ; tho happy transformations of charactor in those who rcceivo and oboy tho Bible and tho fulfillment of prophecy. 6. Tho miracles purporting to havo boon performed by Moses and the prophets, by Christ and his apostles, were of SUcb a nature and performed so publicly that tho narrativos of them could not have been imposed on tho Jewish people ns truth unless tho occurrences had taken placo; that wholo people believed Moses and the prophots, and admitting thc miracles of Christ and his apostles, they as oribod them to Beelzebub; some of thm i rael cn arc memorialized by the observance of religious rites. I thoroforo take thom to be truo. If true, they attest tho claims of those who performed them, oVen tho di vinity olaimod hy Christ.- God is greater titan Bool/chub a,jd ho would never havo permitted miracles to at test falsehood concerning himsolf or thc worship and duty ? required of man. > (y.) The oontral poimVof this re velation is man's condemnation to oternai death for his sirt^and the be liever's redemption and, restoration to God's fayor through l?e atoning saorifioe of Jesus Christ.' 1. This is taught in nfeNte in the Scriptures, which wo have seen, aro tho word of God and ought to satisfy Us;, but God is very gracious and long suffering to us in our skepticism, and further furnishes ? tho fulfilled prophecies and types an/j shadows of tho Old Testament sot forth, as is conceded by tho bitterest onomies of Christianity conturios 'before tho birth of Christ, and ttioso of the New Testament made before their fulfillment, as well as tho prophecies in tho course of fulfillment, as cumu lative and convincing proof both of tho revelation itself and of its plan of salvation. 2. Tho conception of Uhis idoa, so contrary to all tliG teachings of tho Jewish rabbis and the beliof of tho Jewish people, is in itsoff miraculous and tho carrying out tho idea is still more miraculous, until wc find, ns wo aro now about to do, that it was de rived from God's infinite lovo and wisdom and had been foretold by his prophets long before. 8. Omitting for tho sake of brevity other fulfilled prophecies, I proceed to examino thoso concerning John, tho forerunner of Christ, and those concerning Christ' himself. Isaiah (xl.3) says of John : "The voice of him that crieth in the wilderness, 'Prepare yo the way of the Lord, make straight in tho desert a high way for our God' ". And Malachi (iii, 1) : "Behold 1 send my messenger and ho shall pre pare the way before mo." (iv 5-6' "Behold I will send vou Elijah, tin 'proplict, before the coining of tin great and dreadful day of 'aie Lord and ho shall turn tho heart of tin fathers to tho children, and tho hear of tho children to thoir fathers., les I como and smite the earth with i curso," "But tho angel said \mt< him (Luko i, 18-17) ?Fear not, Zaoha rias, for thy prayer is heard, and th; wife Elizabeth shall bear thee a son and thou shalt oall his namo John and thou shalt have joy and glad ness, and many shall rejoioo at hi birth ; for ho shall bo great in til pight of the Lord, and shall drin] neither wine nor stiong drink ; am he shall be fillod with the liol; Ghost even from his mother's womb and many of the children of Tsrac shall ho turn to the Lord thoir God and ho shall go before him in th spirit and power of Elias, to turn th hearts of tho fathers to tho childroi and the disobedient to the wisdom c tho just ; to make ready a peopl prepared for tho Lord." Matthew iii, 1-12 ; xi, 7-14 ; xvi 10-13; Mark i, 2-8; ix, 11-13 Luke iii, 1-18; viii, 24-80; Acts xii 24, and John i, 6-8, 15-86; v, 88-31 and Josephus (Jewish Antiquity 445,) testify to thc character an power of John's preaching and h holy living and that he was put 1 death by Herod, with many dotai which demonstrate tho porfeot fu fi." mont of these prophecies. It was my privilege last spring 1 see "Tho Conciliator," by H. Mana sell Ben Israel, a rabbi venerate among the Jews on account of lt many virtues, great piety and cxtoi sive learning. It was written i 1632, as a commentary on tho O Testament, and most earnestly a sorts its authenticity. Its colle tion of prophecies concerning tl Messiah are, as I remember, aboi tho samo as those we epioto to ptw that Christ was foretold, Immediately aftor tho fall, ono I God's curses upon the sorpent wi chat enmity between it and the sec of tho woman should oxist, and th the latter should bruise its bea Gen. iii, 14-15, At other times God said to Abr ham, "In theo shall ail tho famili of tho earth bo blessed." Gen, x 3; xviii, 18; xxii, 18, and repoat? tho same to Isaao, Gen. xxvi, 4, ai to Jacob, Gon. xxviii, 14. "And thoro shall como forth a rc out of the stem of Jesse, and brandi shall grow out of Iiis rools Isaiah xi, 1-10. "Behold tho days como, saith tl Lord, that I will raise unto David righteous branch." .Ter. xxiii, 5. "Thc sceptro shall not dopa from Judah, nor a lawgiver from b twoon bis foot until Shiloh come ; J and unto him shall the gathering of tho people bo." Gen. xlix, 10. "From tho going forth of tho oom? mandraont to restore and to build Jerusalem unto tho Messiah, tho Prince, shall bo woven weeks and threo score and two weeks." Dan. ix, 25. "Tho Lord whom yo sook shall como suddenly to Iiis temple, cvon tho messongor of tho covonant, whom yo delight in." Mal. iii, 1. "Tho glory of this latter house shall be greater than of the former." Haggai ii, 0. "Thoroforo tho Lord himself shall give you a sign:- Behold a virgin shall con?oive and bear a son and shall oall his namo Immanuel." Isaiah vii, 14. "But thou Bothlehom Ephratah, though thou bo little among the thousands of Judah, yot out of thoo shall ho oomo forth unto me that is to bo ruler in Israel ; ' whoso goings forth have been from of old, from everlasting." Micah v, 2. Matthew, soven years aftor the death of Christ, and Luko twonty threo years later, stated that in obe dience to a decree of tho Roman go vor ninon t, Josepli and Mary went up at a certain time to Bothlohom tc bo taxed, because they were of the house of David, and that whilo there Mary gave birth to Christ ; that certain wiso men wont to Herod and told him thoy wore hunting tho child to worship him ; that Herod inquired for tho. child, but not hav ing found him, and to make sure of his death, ho had all tho children in and noar Bothlehom, two years old and undor, killed. This was tho tituo that the Jews, from their pro phecies, were expeoting the advent' of tho Messiah. They had carefully kept genealogies and tho Roman do oroo was a matter of record, be sides the killing of all tho childron in and near a town forty years be fore could not have boon forgotten when Matthew, wrote and thoso tests wore easily obtained and if Iiis state mentsliad bbch untrue1 they would have been oxposod both by tho Christ-hating Jew and resented by tho proud Roman as an insult to his nation, Neither denied lt. It must bo true. A child was born when, whero and of tho family foretold, and which was claimed to bo tho Mes siah. Would any Jew, having tho prophecies before him, havo dared to claim for the child that ho would fulfill the eharactor prophesied for tho Messiah ? Would ho not, with the Jewish interpretation, havo in stilled different ideas in his head from those taught Christ? If ho had the Christian interpretation would lie have dared claim it with out evidence? Would any Naza rene have thought to announco his child as tho Christ unless inspired to it by God himself? Thus corrobo rated who could fall to believe the account of tho evangelists, which shows a completo fulfillment of all tho prophecies concorning tho na tivity. The following prophecies aro sc distinctly Messianic that thcro ii no room to doubt, viz : Moses says in Deuteronomy xviii 16: "Tho lord thy God will rais< up unto tluo a prophet from th< midst of thee, of thy brethren, tinto him shall yo hearken." And Isaiah xi, 1-10 : "And then shall come forth a rod out of tho sten of Jesse, and a branch shall grow ou of bis roots; and the spirit of th? Lord shall rest upon him, the spirii of wisdom and understanding, th< spirit of counsel and might, th? spirit of knowledgo and of tho fem of tho Lord ; and shall make him o quick understanding in tho fear o tho Lord ; and ho shall not judg? after tho sight of his oyes, no?thei roprovo aftor thc hearing of Iiis oars but with righteousness shall ho judg< thc poor, and roprovo with equity for tiie mcok of tho earth ; and h? shall sinito tho earth with tho rod o his mouth and with tho broath of hil lips shall ho slay tho wicked. Ant righteousness shall bo tho girdle o his loins and faithfulness tho girdle of his reins. ***** And in tba day thcro shall bo a root of Jess* which shall stand for an onsign o tho people To it shall the Gentile seok. And Iiis rest shall bo glori ous." And Isaiah Iii, 18 to liii, 12 : "Bc hold my servant shall doal prudently ho shall bc exalted and extolled, an? bo very high. As many woro as tonied at thee ; his visago was s< marred moro than any man, and hi form moro than tho sons of men ; fi? shall he sprinkle many nation? j ^h kings sholl shut their mouths at him ; for that whioh had not boon told thom shall thoy seo ; and that whioh thoy had not hoard shall thoy oon sider. Who hath boliovod our re port? And to whom is tho arm of tho Lord rovealod ? For ho shall grow up boforo him as a tender plant and as a root out of a dry ground ; ho hath no form nor comeliness ; and when wfi shall see him there is np beauty that wo should desire him. He is despised and rojeoted of men ; a man of sorrows and acquainted with grief; and we hid, ns itwero our faoos from him; ho was de spised and wo esteomod him not. Surely ho hath borne our griefs and carried our sorrows ; yot wo did es teem bili! stricken, smitton of God rind afllictod. But ho was wounded for our transgressions, bo was bruised for our iniquities ; tho chastisement of our poaco was upon him, and with his stripes wo aro healed. All we, like sheep, havo gono astray ; wo havo turned ovoryono to bis own way, and tho Lord hath laid upon lum tho iniquity of us all. Ho was oppressed and ho was afllictod, yot Ito opened not his mouth; ho is brought as a lamb to tho slaughter, und as a sheep boforo ber shoarers is dumb, so bc epeneth not his mouth. He was taken from prison and from judgment ; and who shall dco?aro his goneration ? for ho was cut off out of tho land of the living ; for the transgression of my peoplo was he Btriokon ; and ho made his grave with tho wicked and with the rich in his doath ; becauso ho had dono no violence, neither was any deceit in his mouth. Yet it ploased tho Lord to bruise bini ; ho hath put bim tc grief; when thou shalt make hit soul an offoring for sin, he shall pro long his days, and tho pleasure o tho Lord shall prosper in his band He shall see of tho travail of his sou and shall bo satisfied ; by his know ledge shall my righteous servan justify many; for ho shall boar thor iniquities. Therefore will I divid? him a portion with tho great and lu shall divido tho spoil with tho strong because bo hath poured out his sou unto death ; and ho was numbera with tho transgressors ; and he ban the sin of many and make intcrccs sion for tho transgressors." And Zechariah xi, 12, 18 : "If y< think good, givo mo my price ; an< if not, forbear. So they weighed fo my price thirty pieces of silver. Am tho Lord said unto mo, cast it unt tho potter ; a goodly prico that was prized at of them. And I too tho thirty pieces of silver and cae them to tho potter in tho bouso c Lord." And Ezekiel xxxiv, 22-24 : "There f'>ro will I save my flock and tho shall no moro bo a prey. * * * And I will set up ono shepherd ovc thom, and he shall food them, eve my sorvant David ; and bo sba feed them and ho shall bo their sho] herd, and I, tho Lord, shall bo thc God, and my servant David a print among them ; I the Lord have sp< kon it." David had been dead ovor foi hundred years when this last proph cy was announced, and it thcrofo appears that Christian interprete have correctly considered it. prop to read many expressions of, and regard to David as prophecies co: corning Christ; of that class I no from tho Psalms, the following t wit, lxix, 21 : "They gave me gall eat and vinegar to drink." xxii, ' 8: "All they that sec mc laugh mo scorn ; they shoot out their lips ai shake their hoads, saying he trust MI God that he should deliver hil seeing be delighted in him," and versos 10-18 : "Thoy pierced ri hands and my feet. They p?rtn garments among thom and cast lc upon my vesture" And from Zechariah x ii, 10 : "Tbi shall look upon me whom thoy ha pierced." Christians, and evon sorao host: Jews, rofcr tho following passages Scripture to tho Messiah : Zee. ix, 0: "Kejoico groatly daughter of Zion; shout, O danght of Jerusalem ; behold thy King coi otb unto theo ; he if. just and havi salvation ; lowly, and ridirjg upon ass, and upon a colt, the foal of asi Zee xiii, 1, 6, 7 : "In that d there shall bo a fountain oponed tho house of David and to the i habitants of Jerusalem for sin a for uncleanness. ***** And o shall say unto h'm, what aro th< wounds in thy hands? Then shall nnswor, thowo with which was wounded in tho houso of i frionds. Awake, O sword, agaii my Shepherd, and against tho m that h my follow, saith tho Lord Old Pickens in 1840, -MOVKU TO- . Walhalla in 1868. Destroyed by Fire June Slst, (887. Re-Established August _1887. ? ?.*. ??.II m i ? II i ?? ? ? I. ?? i LIM. -" '-*1 . hosts; amito tim flhnphorA and fri sheep shall ho soattord." ?'salms 78, 2: "I will opon my mouth, in parabloB} I will uttor dark Hayings of old." Types or shadows aro prophecies and furnish iu08t useful information concerning our Saviour. Tako for instanoo tho Passover. In it a lamb without a spot or bl?mir^ was to bo slain, but without breaking any of tts bones. Its blood was to be sprinkled on tho door posts ; thon tho first born in that houso would osoape tho, (lonth ipflinto/l "Ky ??><*. d02*?Cy'"g angol on tho first born in every other houso. Those who partook of it were to bo propared as for a journoy. All shadows of Christ or of Chris tian lifo; not to mention othor de tails of that feast. Again, tho brazen Borpont was raised by Moses on a polo in tho oamp in tho wilderness -where ovory Israolito could seo it and by looking upon it, whon bitton by a poisonous Borpont, should bo healed. Again, tho prophet Jonah was throe days in tho bolly of tho groat , fish whioh God provided to swallow him for bis disobedience in fleeing from God's command to preach to Nineveh. And in general tho sacrifices wore shadows of tho great atonement' whioh Christ was to mako for our sins. Jesus was baptized and tho multi tudes saw tho Holy Spirit descend ing upon bim in tho form of a dove ; and heard tho voice from Hcavon saying, "This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased. Ho was tempted forty days in tho wilder ness. Ho loft Nazareth and dwolt in Capernaum, whioh is upon the sea-coast, ia tho borders of Zebulon, and Nophthalim, in fulfillment of. Isaiah's prophecy, ohapter ix, 1-2. Ho spako in parables. Whon John sent unto bim ho said, "Go show John again those things which you do hoar and, seo, tho blind ro coivo their sight, the lame walk, tho lepers aro cleansed, tho deaf hear, tho doad aro" raised up and tho poor have tho gospel preached unto them." Matthew xi, 4-5. Ho said as Moses liftod up ibo sor pont in tho wildorness, oven so must tho Son of Man bo lifted up. Ile foretold his betrayal, condem nation by tho priests and soribes, delivery to tho Gentiles (Romans) to mock, to scourge and oruoify. That ho should rise aftor having boon buried three days. He said that tho prophet Jonas was a sign of his burial and resurrection. Ho mado tho prediction as to Ins resur rection, else the Jews* or tho Romans would have denied that thoy had hoard it and had plaoed tho guard over his grave as stated. Ho rodo an ass into Jerusalem amid tho shouts of tho multitude : "Hosanna to tho Son of David; blessed is ho that cometh in the name of tho Lord; Hosanna in tho highest." Judas betrayed him for thirty piece? of silver and afterwards returned tho money to'tho priests and soribos and they bought the potter's fiold with it. When bc was arrested his disoiplos desorted him, as ho had told thom tliey would, and also fulfilling tho prophecy that tho shepherd would bo smitten and the shoop scattered. At tho Jewish trial ho was silent until tho High Priest adjured him to say whothor ho was "Christ, tho Son of God." Ho said he was, and thoreupon ho was adjudged "guilty of doath," on tho ground that this was blasphemy.- "Then did they1 spit in his faco and buffctted him, and others smoto him with tho palma of their hands and mocked him." Tho Jews had no power to enforce thc death penalty and oarriod Jesus boforo Pontius Pilate, who, finding him innocent, would havo released him but for tho importunity of tho ?Jows. On this trial "ho answered never a word" to tho accusations of tho Jews, "insomuch that thc Go vernor marveled greatly." Yot in doferenco to tho Jews, Pilate or dered him oruoificd between two thieves. Aftor tho condemnation, Pilato's I soldiers put on him a scarlot robo ; "and whon they had platted a crown of thorns thoy put it upon his bond, and a recd in lils right band ; and thoy bowed tho knco b?foro him and mooked him saying, "Hail, King of tho Jews I And thoy spat upon him and took tho recd and smoto him on tho hoad." Matthew xxvii, 29-aO. Then thoy put his own clotho;! on him and lcd him out of tho oity to Golgotha and "gavo him vinegar to drink, mingled with gall.'* John xix, 24: "And thoy oruolfled him, (VlONvWP^ ON 70UATII PA O E. [J