A Sabbath on earth well spent — spent as it sometimes is, and as it always ought to be — is a shadow and an earnest of the everlasting rest, which the servants of God, through the obedience and sufferings of the Lord Jesus, count upon enjoying in the presence of the angels, and in itself is one of the most successful means which the Great and Almighty Father has been pleased to employ for educating His children for the society of heaven and the avocations of the endless life.

Thomas Witherow, I Will Build My Church: Selected Writings on Church Polity, Baptism, and the Sabbath, edited by Jonathan Gibson, 251.