"We are to account the sanctification of one day in seven a duty which God's immutable law SECOND EDITION. EDINBURGH: ANDREW ELLIOT. LONDON: JAMES NISBET & CO. "The first creature of God in the works of the days was the light of the sense, the last was the light of reason, and his Sabbath work ever since is the illumination of his Spirit." EDINBURGH T. CONSTABLE, PRINTER TO THE QUEEN, AND TO THE UNIVERSITY. LORD BACON. PREFACE. THE author of the following work accounts it his happiness to have been connected from his earliest days with a class, of whom the sacred observance of the Lord's Day has been a prominent distinction. That there have been among them no insincere characters, presenting a distorted image of their creed, it would be too much to affirm; but sure he is, that both ministers and private individuals, with whom, from his circumstances, he has been brought into intercourse, have been, for the most part, upright, holy, kind-hearted, cheerful Christians, with whom, he had reason to believe, it would be good for him to live and die. Of persons in sacred office, there rise to his view, his relative, Mr. Barlas, Crieff; Dr. Pringle and Mr. Black, Perth; Mr. Jameson, Methven; Mr. Beath, Pitcairn Green; Dr. Mitchell, Anderston, afterwards of Glasgow; Dr. Ferrier, Paisley; Dr. Jamieson and Professor Paxton, Edinburgh; Mr. Culbertson, Leith. Others, who occupied a less public station, he must not name; but he sees them attending to the claims of their fellow-creatures equally as to their own affairs-visiting the poor and suffering-sitting by their bed-sides with the impression that a dying immortal is near, and with the tear and the tone of sympathy-tending the steps of the aged and the neglected-showing in their countenances |