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I. WHY ON THIS DAY OF REST OUGHT WE TO BE GLAD?

1. Because the week is the scene of perpetual activity.

2. Because the week is the season for impairing rather than increasing our spiritual vigour.

3. Because the week is the time in which we ale exposed to the most spiritual danger.

II. WHAT THE QUIET OF THE SABBATH SIGNIFIES AND SYMBOLIZES.

1. It does not mean mental inaction. It does not signify having nothing to think about, and nothing to do on this day of rest; but having other things to think about, and other things to do, than those which occupy and all but absorb us during the week. And not only other, but better things, things connected with the life that lies beyond the grave.

2. The quietness of the Sabbath is intended to prepare us for the toil and tumult of the week. Let a Christian man enter the house of God with this idea, and he will never find the Sabbath tedious, or its hours of public worship a weariness; he has laboured to enjoy this rest, and now he rests to be fitted for ensuing labour.

3. The quiet of the Sabbath is a happy quiet, because it is an emblem of the heavenly Sabbath. Learn —

(1) The fitness of Divine ordinances to our human constitution. We must have rest and quiet: nature demands; God graciously supplies them; and he that believes enters into rest.

(2) Let us remember the danger we are exposed to of forgetting the claims of the Sabbath amidst the perpetually recurring anxieties of the week.

(3) Let us rejoice if in our intelligent appreciation of this day we can truly say, "This is the day the Lord hath made, we will rejoice and be glad in it"; and let memory ever say, "Then were we glad because we were quiet."

(W. G. Barrett.)

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KJV: Then are they glad because they be quiet; so he bringeth them unto their desired haven.

WEB: Then they are glad because it is calm, so he brings them to their desired haven.