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  THE SABBATH.


  A PAPER

  READ AT THE

  CONFERENCE OF THE EVANGELICAL ALLIANCE,

  HELD AT GENEVA, SEPTEMBER 2. 1861.


  BY ANDREW THOMSON, D.D.,

  EDINBURGH.


  WITH PREFACE BY

  THE REV J. C. RYLE, B.A., CHRIST CH., OXFORD,

  STRADBROKE, SUFFOLK.

  430th Thousand.


  LONDON:

  JAMES NISBET & CO., 21 BERNERS STREET.

  EDINBURGH: ANDREW ELLIOT, 15 PRINCE'S STREET.

  AND ALL BOOKSELLERS.

  1863.

  EDINBURGH: PRINTED BY JOHN GREIG & SON.




PREFATORY NOTE BY REV. J. C. RYLE.


I have been requested, as an English Clergyman, to preface Dr A.
Thomson's valuable paper on the Scottish Sabbath by a few recommendatory
words. I comply with the request with much pleasure, though I feel that
the paper needs no _imprimatur_ of mine.

I am sensible, however, that there exists a certain amount of prejudice
in many English minds against Scottish views of the Sabbath question.
Too many Christians south of the Tweed are in the habit of regarding our
northern brethren as "legal," "Judaizing," and "extreme" upon this