Sunday Opening and Conscience.—National Reform Field Secretary William Weir would not enter the World's Fair grounds because the Fair had been open on Sundays. He points out the inconsistency of some of the Sunday temperance people. He says that scarcely ever any allusion is made to the evil of liquor selling, and “not one-half dozen times” probably has a Christian been heard by the writer to say that liquor selling would bar his attendance on it [the Fair].” And yet the curse of liquor selling is ten thousand times greater than any “Sunday desecration” can be; for Sunday is not a sacred day, but the evil of liquor selling is fearfully real. But we wonder why these people ever visit California, which has an open Sunday; or why they do not leave the United States, which did not enforce Sunday closing at the World's Fair. If they say they have a right here and wish to do missionary work for the benighted Sunday openers, we reply, Very well, so have they a right at the World's Fair, as have others who pay the admission fee, and missionary work is needed on the Fair ground. The Fair is simply this country condensed. If we could not conscientiously go to the Fair because it is open on Sunday, we do not know how our conscience could allow us to visit Chicago, or Illinois, or remain in any part of the United States, unless it were Tennessee, Pennsylvania, and Maryland. But it is convenient sometimes to have an adjustable conscience; yet for a Christian, especially so radical as Mr. Weir, it is hardly consistent. But consistency does not belong to Sunday.