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THE ARGUMENT.

Description of a Sabbath morning in the country. The labourer at home.-The town mechanic's morning walk ;-his meditation.The sound of Bells.-Crowd proceeding to church.-Interval before the service begins.-English service. Scriptures read.The organ, with the voices of the people.-The sound borne to the sick man's couch.-His wish.-The worship of God in the solitude of the woods.-The shepherd boy among the hills.-People seen on the heights returning from church.-Contrast of the present times with those immediately preceding the Revolution.-The persecution of the Covenanters.-A Sabbath conventicle.-Cameron. Renwick.-Psalms.-Night conventicles during storms.-A-funeral according to the rites of the Church of England. A female character. The suicide.—Expostulation. The incurable of an hofpital.-A prison scene.-Debtors.-Divine service in the prison-hall.-Persons under sentence of death.-Appeal on the indiscriminate severity of criminal law. Comparative mildness of the Jewish law :-The year of Jubilee :-Description of the commencement of the Jubilee :-The sound of the trumpets through the land :-The bondman and his family returning from their servitude to take possession of their inheritance.-Emigrants in the wilds of America.-Their Sabbath worship. The whole inhabitants of Highland districts who have

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emigrated together, still regret their country.-Even the blind man regrets the objects with which he had been conversant.-An emigrant's contrast between the tropical climates and Scotland.The boy who had been born on the voyage.-Description of a person on a desart island.-His Sabbath.-His release.-Missionary ship. The Pacific Ocean.-Defence of Missionaries.Effects of the conversion of the primitive Christians.—Transition to the slave-trade.—The Sabbath in a slave-ship.—Appeal to England on the subject of her encouragement to this horrible complication of crimes.-Transition to war.-Unfortunate issue of the late war-in France-in Switzerland.-Apostrophe to TELL. The attempt to resist too late ;-The treacherous foes already in possession of the passes;-Their devastating progress. -Defolation.—Address to Scotland. Happiness of seclusion from the world. Description of a Sabbath evening in Scotland.Psalmody. An aged man.-Description of an industrious female reduced to poverty by old age and disease.-Disinterested virtuous conduct to be found chiefly in the lower walks of life. Test of charity in the opulent -Recommendation to the rich to devote a portion of the Sabbath to the duty of visiting the sick.— Invocation to health-to music.-The Beguine nuns.—Lazarus. -The Resurrection.-Dawnings of faith-Its progress-Con

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THE SABBATH.

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