The labourer longs for rest. If you, my reader, are one of those whose lot it is to work for their daily bread, you know better than most men how refreshing is repose after toil. And perhaps there is no representation of heaven which will give you a better conception of its happiness, than those in which it is described as a state of rest. It is the perfection of that rest which remaineth for the people of God. What a picture of repose it presents, with its glassy sea, its green pastures, and still waters; its serene sky never darkened by tempest, across which floats no threatening cloud; from which their sun ceases not to pour forth the rays of its high eternal noon!

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