Excerpt from Discourses on the Origin, Universal Obligation, Perpetuity, Duties and General Usefulness of the Sabbath: Delivered in the Capitol of the United StatesAgain, the weekly sabbath of Sinai was proclaim ed in the days of Moses. Now this sabbath is not mentioned again in the history, subsequently to his death, until you find it in 11. Kings, xi. 5, a period of six hundred years. Is it reasonable to infer that all this time the Jews had no sabbath? We must do so, if the silence of history is to settle the question. The truth is, that after an institution is established for the observance of mankind, the silence of the historian in regard to it, proves nothing of itself, except that there were other things to be recorded of more im portance than its special history. I consider there fore the conclusion drawn from this source as utterly unavailing in the question before us.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.