‘THE LAW ON THE SABBATH.

“Remember the sabbath day tokeep it holy.” Who
said this? It was God, our Creator. When God created
the heavens and the earth, he finished the work in
six days and rested on the seventh. The Bible tells
us that God blessed the seventh day and_ sanctified
it. Therefore he has commanded us to rest on the
sabbath and keep it holy. Weare not to use this day as
we do others, but we are to cease from labor, and spend
the hours unto the Lord in religious service and worship.

We see in this picture, Jesus teaching in the syna-
‘gague onthe sabbath day. This was his custom, to go
into the place where the Jews worshiped and _ tell them. of
the great salvation God had provided through himself.

Breaking the law of thesabbath was one of their
great sins. Often when God sent suffering and affliction
upon his chosen people, he told them it was because they
had polluted his sabbaths. The seventy years they spent
in bondage, was for the seventy years of breaking sabbaths.
When these people returned to rebuild Jerusalem, Ezra,
the governor, caused the law to be read concerning the
sabbath, and the people wept sore when they saw it was