Sabbath Rest:What Religious Groups say about the Sabbath:Mormon

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MORMON

(The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints)

"In this, a new dispensation, and verily the last-the dispensation of the fullness of times-the law of the Sabbath has been reaffirmed unto the church...We believe that a weekly day of rest is no less truly a necessity for the physical well-being of mail than for his spiritual growth; but primarily and essentially, we regard the Sabbath as divinely established, and its observance a commandment of Him who was and is and ever shall be, Lord of the Sabbath."-JAMES E. TALMAGE, "Articles of Faith," 25th Edition, Art. I3, Chap. 24, pages 449, 451, 452.

"The Sabbath was to be a perpetual covenant between the Lord and the children of Israel. 'Wherefore the children of Israel shall keep the Sabbath, to observe the Sabbath throughout their generations, for a perpetual covenant' (verse 16). In verse 17 they are commanded to observe it as a sign that they remember that the Lord made heaven and earth, and rested on the seventh day.

"In these quotations from Exodus 31, and in the Decalogue the most positive and weighty reasons are given by the Lord to the fathers of the house of Israel, for keeping the Sabbath day. The obligation is evidently as binding upon the Latter-day Saints as it was upon their fathers, and they in like manner will reap the reward of obedience."-FRANKLIN D. RICHARDS AND JAMES A. LITTLE, "A Compendium of the Doctrines of the Gospel," page 226.