World’s Fair Notes and Sunday Closing
By Editor
THE Evening Tribune of this city is taking rank as a competitor of the San Francisco dailies. Much of the important telegrams in the morning San Francisco papers may be read in the Tribune of the previous evening. On Tuesday, the 8th inst., four editions were issued. Its columns are also liberal toward the interest and views of all respectable classes of citizens. ELLA STERLING CUMMINS gives the following good advice to those who have but a short time to visit the World's Fair:— I have been here two months and a half, missing only a few days in that time in attending. But I have seen very little as yet, not as much as those who come in a whirlwind and go in a cyclone and carry away a grand jumble of out-of-focus impressions. I should advise anyone coming here to spend the days they have to spare in pleasant sight-seeing—not a grand tear and whoop—for more than likely they will fall asleep in the midst of it all, or have a spell of sickness as a reward for their labors. Nature cannot endure more than the limit. And it is far more delightful to see part of the Exposition comfortably than to see it all besottedly. IT seems that the very spirit of falsehood is taking possession of religious journals noted hitherto for fairness and candor. The Independent of July 20, in speaking of the Sunday closing of the World's Fair, says:— Those most delighted are the thousands of workingmen, attendants, and policemen, who can now rest on the seventh day. NOW the Independent knows that Sunday is not the seventh day. It is one of the sophistries by which it is hoped to make it appear that the fourth commandment applies to Sunday,—sophistry worthy only of a trickster who will stoop to any means, however desperate, to make out a case. Sunday is the first day, and there is no law compelling any man to work on that day. THE Christian Endeavorers are winning most of their laurels of fame in a most unchristian way. One of the chief things of which they boast, one of the chief things for which they are commended, is their position on the Sunday question. They believe in Sunday and therefore they have resolved to have the World's Fair closed on that day, holding that to do likewise would be a violation of the law of God. We suppose that our young friends want facts in respect to Sunday. Well, the observance of Sunday as a holy day is not enjoined in the Scripture from Genesis to Revelation; Christ never taught it or kept the day, neither did his apostles. Paul says, "Where no law is, there is no transgression." Rom. 4:15. Where, then, is the sin or transgression of God's law in doing any work on Sunday which is lawful on any other day of the week? And is it Christian endeavor to persuade people that it is?