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Show THE SABBATH WAS MADE FOR MAN. Two ministers of the gospel at least have declared in favor of the opening -of the World's fair on Sunda3"s. One is none other than Bishop Grafton of Fond du Lac, who wants particularly the art department and kindred displays open for the benefit of the working lnan. The other is Rev. Mr, Mackay, rector of All Saints' Episcopal church at Omaha. In his sermon last Sunday he said; "I have no sympathy for the men who are trying to close the World's fair on Sunday. It is a step backward in our Christian march of. liberty and will tend to widen the breach that already exists between the chinch and the workiuChlasses. ponly valid argument argu-ment so 4' " ;anee V,frrrrf its closing Wrft ' Tftf S KM Tor the closnig i i-iir iV , means the exclusion ! , isands "Lijjlif men. Do the men who ; VocatingWfTh measures realize real-ize that th'lk t re hundrps of thousands of people who rfimot afford to lose a day's pay during the week, and that every visit to the fair made by such people means a curtailing of the necessaries of life? "The protest against the opening of the fair reminds one of what Macaulet said of the puritans, "that they hated bear baiting not because of the pain it gave the bear, but because be-cause of the pleasure it gave the spectators." specta-tors." Keep the Sabbatarians away from the fair on Sundays. Let them give the poor people a chance to see the sights on that day their day. Let the rich go to church on that day in Chicago, but the. man whose object was to see the'fair, let him not be disappointed." |