The Sabbath Memorial of Creation
By Editor
The New England Evangelist thinks that the ancient Sabbath should not now be observed, for the reason (?) that it was only a type of Christ. But extraordinary and unfounded as this opinion is, the editor of our contemporary has the good sense to say:— “It was not primarily to supply a physical necessity that God gave man a Sabbath, but that man should remember it and keep it. Men may cease from work as often as they may agree, or as may be convenient, and have all the benefit of bodily rest; but when God appointed a day, and sanctified it, and called it his own, it then stood for something more than bodily rest.” This is true; the Sabbath of the Lord stood as the memorial of the work of the finished creation, and there is just as much reason why it should be kept now as there ever was. It was not given as a day of rest for man, but as a day of worship, a day to remind man that God had created all things; and for this purpose it will be observed in the eternal state, as foretold in Isa. 66:23.