Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1892-09-27

a woke In the matter Of its observance
which was neither light nor easy
But he will assert that their warrant
for what they did, whether we look Tor
II in the pages Of the New Testament
or In the traditions Of Catholic Chrlsten-
dom. was neither substantial nor suf-
fcient."
The Bishop, after indicating the
source OF the PrS~.ans' warrant for
their kind Of Sunday, will show by
ample evidence Of the Scriptures and OF
history that the Sunday OF primitive
Christianity was in many respects not
unlike our own Christmas or Thanks
giving Day, and that the domestci ascot
icism, prohibition of amusement and re-
creation on Sunday, dreary denial
even of innocent occupations,
stern rebuke Of the gayety and
mirthfulness OF children, hard constric-
ton of domestic affections and OF neigh
borly cOurtesies, as preached and prac-
ticed by our Puritan fathers, were none
OF them distinguishing characteristics
of the Sundays OF the first Christian
centuries.
"a true picture OF them may by antlc-
ipatiun be found in the pages OF the
New Testament itself, where Christ Is
found on one Sabbath day healing a
paralytic, much 20 the disgust OF ruler
of the synagogue, who roundly de-
nOunces Him; or on another dining with
a PhariSee and making this kindly III
tercourse the means of the Hottest teach
ing, thus expresSively proclaiming that
humaDer law which was TO govern men
henceiorth in their observance OF all
holy days, whether Sab5aths or Sun
days"
"a GOOD SUNDAY"
Bishop Potter will point out why
those cOmmunlOns or societies which
have striven in various ways-by Seclu-
sion, by abstinence, by vows of celibacy,
of silence, of poverty, of Self-annihila-
tonic reintroduce as the highest type
of religion and the finest flower Of char
acter the rule Of prohibitive asceticlsm
which Christ In His own person dis
missed, having signally failed.
.'And so il will be whether the Ques-
/ tlon concern the observance Of day,
the mastery Of an appetite, or the en-
I franChSemcnt of the will Inone word, "
/ so Bishop Potter will say, "we shall get
q good Sunday in America when men
/ learn TO recognize its meaning and It's
uSes-nOt when we have closed all the
/ doors which, il open, might help to
\ teach them a lesson"
He regards the library doors rs one
/ one OF those which should not be closed
against any man on any day. The door
\ OF well equipped museum is another
which he would have opened on SUI
| day. The door Of the worthy picture
/ gallery be regards as one through which
a man may enter without fear on Sun
dav. ANY door, all doors, indeed, which
/ lead men TO q deeper and broader I'M
Outstanding OF the story OF the world
are suitable doors TO open on Sunday,
for within them is TO be found that
which furnishes the nObler and the
| wortheir education OF man, and leads TO
/ the highest education of all, which Is
his spiritual education; "for in one
aspect of 10 one cannot look at the
/ humblest piece OF human handiwork
without seeing In it how patience and
the palnStakiuR study of methods and
materials have merged themselves In
I some continuance in which the happy
issue of the perfected whole can yet
never be so interesting as the courage
and ingenuity-the hard fight with
manifold obstacles-that produced it. "
QUITE CONSISTENT.
Following the logic Of this reasoning
/ Bishop Potter necessarily will arrive at
the conclusion that IL would be quite
consistent with the most scrupulous
observance of Sunday TO open the
doors Of the Columbian Exposition on
that day.
In so brief au examination Of the ad-
vance sheets of Bishop POtter's paper
as this one must be, many Of the inter
esting details must necessarily be
omitted. He will not demand that the
Exposition be opened during the entire
day, and he would remove from the
scene every evidence of the business
day, but he would not shut men out
I from that increased knowledge which
they might obtain during Sunday
afternoon visit to the greatest Of all
great fairs
Bishop Potter will fortlfy his position
! by interesting arguments drawn from
the experience of closing the doors of
the Centennial Exposition at Philadel-
uhia on Sunday. As a matter Of fact
ne will show that they were not closed
except against such persons as would
be most truly benefited by having them
open and were the most 0rutalized by
having them closed.
"sHUT OTHER DOORS FIRST"
There has been a very persistent ef-
/ fort to ridicule the idea that saloon
keepers and their like, and worse, in
Chicago, would be friendly to the clos
/ ing of the Exposition on Sunday, since
/ 10 would force the crowds of idle Strang-
ere into their dOors-either front or
\ rear. But such ridicule is very I'D timed
\ I'm view of facts that are abundantly
we'll known as to the use of the people
shut out from the Exposition made Of
\ their Sunday afternoons in Philadel-
pbia. 10 may indeed be urged by those
I who are cOntending for the closing OF
/ the Exposition throughout Sunday that
I they are not responsible for what peO-
! pie do with themselves so long as they
I keep them out OF the Exposition. But
I 10 would seem as II IL might with some