Excerpt from The Light of the Week: Or the Temporal Advantages of the Sabbath, Considered in Relation to the Working Classes We must not conclude this introduction without thus publicly acknowledging, and tendering our thanks for, the interest in our author, which the Rev. Dr. Buist, of St. Andrew's, the last year's Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland, was pleased to take in this Essay and its writer, when requested to obtain information respecting him, and to prepare a sketch of his life. Our author himself having supplied what was desired, it became unnecessary to trouble the Moderator further. For his ready willingness, how ever, to assist us, we beg to offer him our most respectful thanks; and at the same. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.