OUR NATIONAL DEBASEMENT.
By Editor
The Rev. Dr. J. E. Price, of New York, on the Sunday opening of the World's Fair, said: "They have withheld our noblest exhibit, the American sabbath, and in its stead have placed before the foreign visitors an object lesson in fraud. Our national humiliation is complete." No, Dr. Price is mistaken. The American sabbath has been and is being exhibited to the public in Chicago in all of its typical and varied phases. What difference does human law make? If the Fair be closed, the "American sabbath" is exhibited throughout Chicago from church to grogshop. If the Fair be open, it is seen in a much milder form at Jackson Park. Yes, our national humiliation—debasement—is complete. This country has posed before the world as personified liberty, equality, and justice, especially in matters of religion. But during the last sixteen months she has through her highest judicial body fraudulently declared the nation to be Christian when it is not Christian; she has through her highest law-making power decided a religious controversy and established the fraudulent Sunday sabbath as the sabbath of the nation; now what wonder that she has as yet no executive power to enforce the fraud. Her judicial and legislative powers are decidedly and worthily Jesuitical, but the executive power has not yet advanced so far. It will develop, however, and then—Rev. 13:15-17. If our Sunday-law people only placed their hopes in the Creator of the heavens and earth instead of in the Egypts of earth, they would not be so greatly ashamed or humiliated before the world at the action taken by these Egypts. Those whose hope is in God and his word "shall not be ashamed nor confounded world without end."