The Midwinter Fair and Sunday Laws
By Editor
It may be thought by another article on this page that we believe that it is right to bring pressure to bear on the directors of the Midwinter Fair to close on the seventh day, or Saturday. We believe nothing of the kind. We believe that the directors of the Fair, and every exhibitor, and each and all officials connected therewith, should be allowed to do just as they please, within the province of law, justice, and equality, without pressure being brought to bear upon them by the uncertain and often fraudulent methods of petition, or the tyrannical one of boycott. The opening of the Fair will affect no one's rights. The Presbyterian need not work on Sunday, nor need he attend the Fair that day. There is no law to compel him so to do. The proper appeal of every Christian minister and church to the directors is for the directors to give themselves to God, to yield to Christ; and he who intelligently and whole-heartedly yields to Christ will need no law to compel him to keep the Sabbath. He will keep it, whether there is civil law or not, whether all the world is with him, or whether he stands alone. And it will be the Sabbath of the Lord, the only Lord's day, the Sabbath as expressed in the fourth commandment, which he will keep. Is this what our Sunday law friends are afraid of? Let them not be alarmed; the law of God is a law of liberty to those who are in Christ.