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.-Scotish service.-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 hospital. -A prison scene :-Debtors :-Divine service in the prison hall-Persons under sentence of death.-The public guilt of inflicting capital punishments on persons who have been left destitute of religious and moral instruction.-Children proceeding to a Sunday school. The father.-The impress.-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 to the wilds of America :-Their Sabbath worship. The whole inhabitants of Highland districts who have 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 desert 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 :-Desolation.-Address to Scotland.Happiness of seclusion from the world.-Description of a Sabbath evening in Scotland :-Psalmody :-An aged man.---Descrip tion 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-Consummation. |