Excerpt from The Sabbath Institution: Traced and Defended in Its History and Changes My position in social and public life has pressed upon my attention the various questions that have arisen, and the different practices that have obtained, in respect to the Institution here treated. I have endeavored to examine, as far as possible, with impartiality and in the light of Christian Philosophy, whatever has been written by competent men on this interesting and important subject. As I have found no work which discusses this Institution as a whole, in all its changes and adaptations, reaching from Eden to the end of time, meeting all the leading opposing positions that have been taken against it; and as, in Divine Providence, I have been called to the responsibilities of a public teacher in these matters, I have felt necessitated, in duty to the people of my charge, and in faithfulness to the Lord of the Sabbath, to pursue the investigations and to prepare the train of thought here presented. 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.