Excerpt from Discourses on Various Points of Christian Doctrine and Practice Training up of Children. That on the Signs of the Times was delivered before the Associate Synod a good many years ago; and that on Brotherly Love about 1818, when there were some serious disturbances in the Asso ciate Presbyterian Congregation of Pittsburgh. That on the Divinity of Christ was principally composed to complete the contemplated arrange ment of this volume. Those on the Sabbath and on Light are newly composed - In respect to this last, (on Light, ) I am sensible many will not be much pleased with it; but others, it is hoped, will be of a different opinion; for the author thought that those immense discoveries which are made in modern science couldnot be supposed absolutely all incapable of being applied to the religious character of man; and he has attempted to make a slender experiment on some of the properties of light. 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.