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title: 'George Junkin on the Earthly and Eternal Sabbaths'
type: post
author: 'R. Andrew Myers'
date: 2024-05-19
url: https://confessional.org/blog/2024-george-junkin-on-the-earthly-and-eternal-sabbaths
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# George Junkin on the Earthly and Eternal Sabbaths

“Undoubtedly the eternal Sabbath, like its type here, will be a day of holy activities. The spirits of the redeemed, and, after the resurrection, their entire persons, will be active in the service of God; and that increased, as the purified souls and the spiritualized bodies, have increased capacities for heavenly joys. The earthly Sabbath is to them a delight; how much more the heavenly? Here they meet and recognize each other as fellow-heirs of the grace of life; they take sweet counsel and go up to the house of God, and sound forth the praises of redeeming love; how much more when clogs of clay are all thrown off and they meet and recognize each other in the heavenly Canaan!” — [**George Junkin, Sr**.](/authors/george-junkin), *Sabbatismos: A Discussion and Defence of the Lord*'*s Day of Sacred Rest* (1866), pp. 170-171