| Show AND GODS POOR pdt congress has reiterated I 1 Us Is determine tion llon not to permit the worlds fair to bo be opened on sunday wo suppose ahli Is 13 out ol of respect to the religious sentiment of tho the country wo NYO the iho higher religious thought be to open the doors of tho the institution on oa the sabbath h dy day and give giro the poor a chance to soo see the glories clustered there such legislation does no DO good and never flavor III until legislative bodies bo able to mike make rules to govern the lite of mens minds it amae A man stays away from the ilia fair and spends ponds the sabbath day thinking of how ho he can got get tho the host best of hit his neighbor molt morning he bo does not corno came anywhere oear near sai ing his soul by abo process oath on the other add it tho the man were to no ito to the fair ready to op ap pre clato every beautiful tiling thing soon there and to como coma away after hours of examination with ith st a more profound reverence for his bis creator and a higher respect for his bis follow fellow moo that could not possibly damn his bis immortal soul mon men who make such laws aro are not men w whoever walked do doun a on the low streets of poverty and havo have from an 0 o imal bathing been obliged to support themselves thero there aro are ton ten thousand families in ID chicago probably thirty thousand tho osand families fit chicago ChIc aEO who have to figure very closely in n order to live upon their income and abo through the illness of a husband and father for three weeks are made to buffer by tho the loss lose of those three weeks wages verea for three years thereafter suck such people cannot visit the fair unless it be on such days a as the husband Is not employed and to close that mighty exposition against thim on the sabbath day Is something which no authority can bo be got for la in tho the now new testament Tei lament we think men who he would vote for that would had they been in jerusalem in the old days day have growled as did the other pharisee when the wont went through the wheat fields on the sabbath day and ate of the corn wo we believe in a fair deal everywhere we would rather seo see a man on sunday on the outside of a church with his thoughts on the inside than to see boa a man on the forside with his thoughts on the outside ou tilde in that fair will be native ores ore native trees native plants tons teas of thousands of wonderful productions of nature lul JUAL to as they were dropped from the band of the infinite and we believe the mans soul will be better vi who he Is rr per on the sabbath day to go and look at those glories than it will bo be it if the great gates shall be clofed and be be obliged to consume the ilia lr day in ID wishing he b might go into the exposition we do not col believe tho the opening of that bit exposition on the sabouth ich day would suit in tho the wounding of the sensibilities of jai toy church man however strict if ho be could but go eo there ibera end ud tm son who were noro visiting tho the grounds ho he would sea eq tho the poor man with his family fa tolly anti he bo would instinctively realize that to those thosa tam fam tiles that particular day was wai to be a white whit day dar in ID all their lives after and that through years and years tears they abr would tell each other oilier and tell others ho be did riot DOI see the splendors bhae that fir fair unfolded to them bow it gave them a higher blither admiration for the ability of man maa it a d deeper soper rove rover fence euco for tho the goodness goodo oBa of gum GOD |
