Excerpt from The Lord's Day: Substance of a Speech Delivered at a Meeting of the Presbytery of Glasgow, on Thursday, 16th November, 1865 The speech of which I now publish the substance, was not written, but was delivered extempore from a few brief notes indicating my line of argument. Though spoken very rapidly, it occupied three hours in its delivery. I was placed in a difficult position, having to reply to long and carefully written speeches? By my learned and excellent friends on the other side. I was thus obliged to take up the whole question, and to discuss it with regard to the state of feeling in Glasgow and in Scotland, as well as in the Presbytery, both with reference to the Sabbath, and to a tendency manifesting itself, in some quarters, to lose all faith in the Lord's-day, because losing faith in the only ground on which it had generally been put in Scotland. My sincere desire was not to destroy, but to build up; and my belief is, that what I have said will have this effect on the minds of very many who will give my words their candid consideration. 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.