The Creation of all Things Celebrated by the Glorified Saints.
WHEN John listened to the song of the twenty-four elders, who had been redeemed from the earth, as their own words testify (Rev. v, 11), he heard them use this most expressive language: “Thou art worthy, O Lord, to receive glory, and honor, and power; for thou hast created all things, and for thy pleasure they are and were created.” Now it is certain from this scripture that the great facts of creation can never become obsolete, and that they never lose their importance. Not only do we gather this from the fact that the elders in their glorified state make mention of the work of creation, but much more from the manner in which that mention is made. For they place the worship of God upon the ground that he is the Creator of all things. And thus it appears that to all eternity this great fact is to be kept in the memory of the people of God, as constituting the grand difference between themselves and the great Being they are to worship. The Sabbath is that institution whereby this great truth is kept in memory. And hence it is that this divine memorial of the Creator never ceases to be observed. For as the great facts of creation lie at the foundation of the worship offered to him that sits upon the throne, so that institution which embodies these facts is to be in perpetual remembrance. And so it will be in the New Earth, that “from one Sabbath to another shall all flesh come to worship before me, saith the Lord.” Isa. lxvi, 23. And why should we be unwilling to acknowledge God as our Creator? Or if we acknowledge him by our profession of faith, why should we be unwilling to make that faith good by obedience to that institution which he ordained for that purpose?