“Redemption has a past, a present, and a future. In the Sabbath as ‘the Lord’s day’ all three are focused. In retrospect it is the memorial of our Lord’s resurrection. In the present with resurrection joy it fulfils its beneficent design by the lordship of the Son of man. As prospect it is the promise of the inheritance of the saints. With varying degrees of understanding and application it is this perspective that dictated the observance of the Lord’s day in catholic, protestant, and reformed tradition. Shall we forfeit an institution so embedded in redemptive revelation and recognized as such in the history of the church of Christ? In the faith and for the honor of the Sabbath’s Lord may we answer with a decisive, no! In devotion to him may we increasingly know the joy and blessing of the recurring day of rest and worship.” — John Murray, The Pattern of the Lord's Day (1973) [pictured: Henry Ossawa Tanner, The Two Disciples at the Tomb (1906)]