HERE is the divine law of the Sabbath of the Lord:— “Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days shalt thou labor, and do all thy work; but the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates; for in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day; wherefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day, and hallowed it.” Ex. 20: 8-11. The following are recognized principles in the interpretation of law, as all jurists will admit; let us apply them to God’s law:— In the case of all law, it is THE INTENT OF THE LAW-GIVER that is to be enforced. When words are plain in a written law, there is an end to all construction; they must be followed. When the intent is plain, nothing is left to construction. Certainly the words of the fourth commandment of the Decalogue are plain. If language means anything, that law means that the intent of the Lawgiver was that the seventh day should be regarded by his subjects as the Sabbath. And this law God based upon reasons,—his resting on the day, blessing the day, and the sanctification or setting apart of the day,—which can apply to no other day of the seven; for God rested on no other day, blessed no other day, set apart no other day. But God did not leave his intent to be declared by words alone. He showed by the threefold weekly miracle of the manna for forty years that the seventh day was the Sabbath, thereby precluding any construction of the plain words of the law.—Sentinel Library No. 61.