JAMES GEMMELL, GEORGE IV. BRIDGE, EDINBURGH. 



Four Prize Essays on the Sabbath, by Rev. 



Mr. HAMILTON, Belfast; Rev. W. C. WOOD, Boston, 

 U. S. ; Rev. Dr. ORR, Hawick ; and A MEMBER OF THE 

 COLLEGE OF JUSTICE, Scotland. Thick 8vo, cl., price 7/6. 



To the Authors of these Essays were awarded Prizes of 100, 50, 30, and 

 20, by the Sabbath Alliance of Scotland. The Adjudicators were : Professor 

 Mitchell, D.D., St. Andrews; Rev. A. Thomson, D.D., Edinburgh; Principal 

 Rainy, D.D., Edinburgh; Rev. J. Marshall Lang, D.D., Glasgow; Rev. J. C. 

 Burns, D.D., Kirkliston. 



"Of the first essay we have already spoken in commendation The 



other essays are well worthy of a thoughtful perusal." The Nonconformist 

 Independent. 



" These essays are all of them well written, .... they are a storehouse of 

 facts and arguments to all who may have to defend the Rest Day from the 

 attacks sure to be renewed from time to time." Dundee Advertiser. 



" In the four treatises now on our table, we can say that each essayist has 

 thought for himself, and in their combined labours they have done more 

 than reproduce the arguments and defences of former authors Con- 

 stitute an encyclopaedia of facts and arguments which criticism will only 

 prove to be in harmony with the Bible and science." Presbyterian Messenger. 



Our Rest Day : its Origin, History and 



Claims, with Special Reference to Present Day Needs. 

 By the Rev. THOMAS HAMILTON, A.M., Belfast. Being 

 the Essay to which was awarded a Prize of One Hundred 

 Pounds, offered by the Sabbath Alliance of Scotland. 

 Crown 8vo, cloth, 3/. 



"His style is lucid, terse, and vigorous We most cordially recom- 

 mend all our readers to procure this able and masterly treatise." WITNESS. 



" It deserves a foremost place amongst the somewhat extensive literature 



of the Sabbath It is clear, concise, and conclusive." PRIMITIVE 



METHODIST WORLD. 



" A storehouse of fact and argument." ECCLESIASTICAL GAZETTE. 



" Written in an excellent spirit, abounds in learning, is marked by never- 

 failing candour, and contains much practical council, as well as valuable in- 

 formation." THE CHRISTIAN ADVOCATE. 



"The Work is ably done." LIFE AND WORK. 



" Knowing how many valuable manuscripts were submitted to the adjudi- 

 cators we were prepared to expect something unusually good, and we have 

 not been disappointed." FREE CHURCH MONTHLY. 



" Other works may have been good, but none could have been better. It 

 is as interesting as it is instructive, and we give it our hearty praise." 

 SWORD AND TROWEL. 



" We consider the book the best and most useful on the subject in the Eng- 

 lish language." PRESBYTERIAN MESSENGER. 



The Homes, Haunts, and Battlefields of the 



Covenanters. By A. B. TODD, Author of ' ' The Circling 

 Year," "Poems, Lectures, and Miscellanies." Cr. 8vo, 

 cloth, 3/6. Second Series in Preparation. 

 "The volume is a very interesting one." Scotsman. 



"The work of a thorough man of genius He has a full knowledge of 



his subject and a love for it ; and he has a fervid poetical temperament, a 

 sympathy with all that is good and true. . . . The topographical sketches 

 with which the book abounds are beautifully drawn." Dumfries and Gallo- 

 way Standard and Advertiser. 



