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title: 'C.W. Grafton on the Design of the Christian Sabbath'
type: post
author: 'R. Andrew Myers'
date: 2022-10-15
url: https://confessional.org/blog/2022-c-w-grafton-on-the-design-of-the-christian-sabbath
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# C.W. Grafton on the Design of the Christian Sabbath

What does the Sabbath mean? What is its design? Our great interest is in keeping the Sabbath day; but before we can properly keep this day we must understand its design. It is difficult to give a short definition of the design of the Sabbath. Let us put it this way: It was designed to be a picture of what man lost by sin and what he regains in heaven.” — [C.W. Grafton](/authors/cornelius-washington-grafton), “The Meaning of the Sabbath” in “Bible Ethics: Three Addresses” from *Elements of Truth: Addresses Delivered at Synod’s Training School, June 16 to 26, 1914* (1914)