The Sabbath, Report of Speeches (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1866. Excerpt: ... PUBLIC MEETING IN THE CITY HALL, GLASGOW, 4th OCTOBER, 1865. The Kev. R. Wallace, of the Glasgow Reformed Presbyterian Church, having opened the meeting with prayer, The Chairman (Bailie Salmon) said--Ladies and gentlemen, it is not my province as your chairman to detain you with any remarks of my own. My duty will be best discharged by simply introducing those gentlemen who are here for the purpose of enlightening our minds on this question, and who are so much better qualified than I am to do so. But perhaps you will allow me to make a single remark or two, and I promise you I shall be very brief. We find that our friends who take the view opposite to our own, are endeavouring to fix upon us the charge of being obstructors of the necessities of the country, with regard to commerce or to the postal regulations of the country, and that we reject even the claims constantly arising on the sides of necessity and mercy. Now, we repudiate the charge--we deny it. We are not obstructors of anything that can be called a necessity, whether with regard to the postal, the commercial, or the necessities and mercies of the country. We believe that the law of God has made ample provision for every one of these--and we are prepared to go to the full extent that the law of God warrants--but we are not prepared to go any further. There is also an attempt made to show that we are now opposing what was formerly petitioned for by the Town Council of Glasgow a great many years ago. Now, whatever may be said with regard to the proceedings of the Town Council of these days, we deny that what we are now opposing is the same thing that was done then. What the Town Council advocated was the running of a postal train--a through postal train--between Edinburgh and Glasgow in the mor...