Show THE SABBATH DAY If I f Protesting Against Opening the j 3 Fair on Sunday S COLONEL SHEPARD PREDICTS The lord Will Send Down Pestilence and Fever on the American People if They Desecrate His Day Special to THE HERALD Examiner RLExater Dtapatoal CHICAGO Sept 2 I believe that the Lord reigns and that if the gates of the I Worlds fair are not closed on gaes the Sabbath tie Sabbsth day Ho will send down pestilence and fevers upon the American people for their disobedience of His sacred law The speaker was Colonel Elliott F Shepard of the New York Elott Sp Matt and Ex press who ushered into the rotunda of the Auditorium a distinguished body of da c idedly clerical cidpdly looking men who are in Chicago as Sabbatharians to make a strong Co nd concerted attack upon the conscience of the Columbian commissioners As ho stood in their midst dressed in a light suit of clothes patent leathers and a jaunty light derby he appeared somewhat worldly in comparison with the other representa tives of the American Sabbath union of which ho is however president and with whose object his words showed him to be strongly in sympathy Next to Colonel bnepard The most notable member of the dele gation was the Rev Francis L Patton D p L L D president of Princeton eel lege and the chairman of the Presbyterian court in the lamous trial of the Rev Dr Biiggs Dr Patton is a tall and extremely slender man with piercing eyes and den cal clothes and whiskers Among the others MajorGeneral O O Howard of the United States army an enthusiastic Sab batarian Rev H E Weoster L L D president of Union college Schenectady N Y the Rev J Dimendorf D D pas tor of the Collegooso Dutch Reformed cuurch of New York the Rev George L Mott D D president of the New Jersey Sabbath union the Rev J H Kno ivies D D general secretary of the American Sabbath union and the ROT J R Taylor D D its corresponding secretary the Rev Robert S Macarthur to whose in stitution Mr Rockefeller recently gave 52000000 and William R Worral a di rector of the American Sabbath union and private secretary to Colonel Shepard The party traveled m the latters private car The Traveler and arrived over the Now York Central |