NOTE.—Previous to the fall, God designed that man’s time should be occupied with pleasant, invigorating, but not wearisome labor. Gen. 2:15. Laborious, wearisome toil came in consequence of sin. Gen. 3:17-19. While under the fall the Sabbath, therefore, may bring physical rest to both man and the beasts of burden (Ex. 23:12) in a way not originally intended, physical rest was not its original and primary design or purpose. Cessation from the ordinary labors and occupations of the week was ordained, not because these are wrong or sinful in themselves, but that man might have an appointed time and a frequently recurring period for the contemplation of the Creator and His works. Under the gospel, the Sabbath is a sign of spiritual rest and freedom from sin. So we read, “For he that is entered into His rest, he also hath ceased from his own works, as God did from His.” Heb. 4:10. 12. Who gives this rest from sin? “Come unto Me, all ye that labor and are heavy-laden, and _I will give you rest_. Take My yoke upon you, and learn of Me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls.” Matt. 11:28, 29. NOTE.—The Sabbath, then, is the sign of the soul-rest which Christ gives to the weary and ladened with sin. 13. Was the Sabbath intended as a day for public worship? “Six days shall work be done: but the seventh day is the Sabbath of rest, _an holy convocation_.” Lev. 23:3. NOTE.—A convocation is an assembly of people. 14. Does the New Testament teach the same duty? “Let us consider one another to provoke unto love and to good works: _not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together_, as the manner of some is; but exhorting one another: and so much the more, as ye see the day approaching.” Heb. 10:24, 25. 15. What does Malachi say of those that fear the Lord? “Then they that feared the Lord _spake often one to another_: and the Lord harkened, and heard it, and a book of remembrance was written before Him for them that feared the Lord, and that thought upon His name. And they shall be Mine, saith the Lord of hosts, in that day when I make up My jewels; and I will spare them, as a man spareth his own son that serveth him.” Mal. 3:16, 17. 16. Will the Sabbath be observed as a day of worship in the new earth? “For as the new heavens and the new earth, which I will make, shall remain before Me, saith the Lord, so shall your seed and your name remain. And it shall come to pass, that from one new moon to another, and _from one Sabbath to another, shall all flesh come to worship before Me, saith the Lord_.” Isa. 66:22, 23. NOTE.—“Thou hast made us for Thyself, and our heart is restless till it find its rest in Thee.”—_St. Augustine._ Manner Of Observing The Sabbath [Illustration.] Sabbath Morning. "Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy." Ex. 20:8.