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The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Dec 25, 1866

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 29, No. 3.

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Tell me the meaning of Scriptures. One gem from that ocean is worth all the pebbles of earthly streams.—M'Cheyne.

Genesis ii, 2, 3.

And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made. And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it, because that in it he had rested from all his work which God created and made.
Thus was the seventh day appointed by God, from the very beginning of the world, to be observed as a day of rest by mankind, in memory of the great benefits received in the formation of the universe. It has been a question, among the learned, whether any Sabbath was observed before the promulgation of the law by Moses; but the most judicious commentators agree that Adam and Eve constantly observed the seventh day, and dedicated it in a peculiar manner to the service of the Almighty; and that the first Sabbath, which Philo (one of the most ancient writers) calls The birthday of the world, was celebrated in Paradise itself; which pious custom, being transmitted from our first parents to their posterity, became in time so general that the same Philo calls it the universal festival of mankind.—Sear's History of the Bible.