The Progress., 1892-12-17
THE PROGRESS.
AT WORK AGAIN.

renewed 6HOTIS Ol CtIOdlH NAu'" ~
have the doors of the Columbian Ex-
position open on Sunday.
The subtle arguments which these
yotaries use would challenge admlra-
tion, were it not for the fact their I'M
port means the overthrow OF the
Christian doctrine and the supremacy
of Sacrelige.
They are again appealing to the
gallantry of the American Nation, and
striving by unholy fattery, to cause
the people of this vast common
wealth, who honor the Sabbath day,
10 surrender their religious princl-
pies and turn the country, with her
precepts on religious matters, over to
a horde of heathens and Idolators
Sophistry breathes IN every word
that is used in support of the de-
mand to open the Worlds Fair on
Sunday, and surrender of virtue,
manhood and honest convictions is
asked for.
The foreign nations will be our
guests. these applicants say: their
ideas on observance of the Sabbath
should be, for that reason, respected
An argument as false as the evil
spirit which suggested it. By the
same reasoning ministers OF the gos-
pei and others of Christian piety,
should allow dancing, card-plsying
and general gambling beneath their
roofs, simply because they happen to
have as guests, men who indulge in
these immoral and demoraliziDg prac-
tices as a pastime when an oppor-
tunity is presented. They shoul d
also allow the Sabbath to be ruth
lessly broken and spurned on their
own premises, simply because neigh
bors boys, who are permitted to do so
at home, happen TO be on a visit to
the children of IL 3e who remember
the Sabbath day keep it holy.
But say these good-natured (?) lib
erty loving (O gentry, we do not ask
that the machinery should be in mo-
ton and everything at work; y 10
that would be very wicked, we sim
ply ask that the doors be opened SO
that everyone may be granted an op-
portunity to see the art exhibits and
everything else which does not re-
ouire labor nor steam to be exhibited;
this we ask in the interest OF the
poor working classes, who cannot
afford to lose day from work In Or
der to see this grand exhibit of ours.
1t is great wonder that Jehovah
does not strike dumb and paralyzed
those who exhibit such hypocracy
Interest in the working classes in
deed. If there is sincerity in this
Pretended deep interest, let those
who profess it pay the small pittanct
of days labor, and let the poor la
borers attend during the week and
then there will be nonecessity of des
Grating that day made memorable by
the resurrection of our Savior.
Bat these great philanthropist4
say, as an evidence that we inten(
nothing wrong, give the foreigners
and all who attend On this day o.
public rest, permission to hold divine
services accordirg to their own creed
and modes of worship OF course
that will include the idolaters as wei
as any. That would certainly be ;
sight worth witnessing truly. Th'
American Nation, the land wher'
God the Father, God the Son an(
God the Holy Ghost is worshippeC
rs Nations God-head, throw wild,
its doors to an invading horde an(
allow its own religion and religious
day to be treated with contempt ant
disdain.
We hope Congress will be true tC
herself and her people once more
and viii keep posted on the outsid
of her halls "no admittance" TO thr
bearers of the petitions for the Sab
bath desecration of her native shores
A American for Americans, and GoC
and the Savior Jesus Christ for u
all, are our sentiments.
THE ANTlCpTION RIlI