Excerpt from Sketches of the Presbyterian Church: Containing a Brief Summary of Arguments in Favor of Its Primitive and Apostolic Character, and a View of Its Principles, Order and History, Designed Especially for the Youth of the Church The following work, first commenced with the simple hope of rendering more attractive and useful the pages of the Sabbath-school Visitor, where it originally appeared in the form of letters to children, has been carefully re-written, and enlarged by important additions. The design of the writer has been to supply, as far as possible, a want which has been greatly felt, of some suitable history of the Presbyterian Church, to be placed especially in the hands of our youth. He has sought to group together the facts by which that history can be traced up, not simply to the Reformation, but to the Apostolic age, and to the type of a pure and primitive Christianity. He has desired to make familiar to the mind, the rise, progress, struggles, and successes of the great principles of Presbyterianism, and to set forth their influence upon the Church and the world. 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.