The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1893-05-28
AN OPEN FAIR ON SUNDAY.

The decision to open the Worlds fair On
Sundays settles q dispute that ought never
20 have arisen. Not only the gates but
she buildings are to be open; the machin-
cry will be stopped and every employee will
have a day Of rest, and the directors will
pay back to the United States the money
congress gave them with the condition of
Sunday closing. The whole dispute from
the beginning was an utterly unwise and
ABSURD attempt to pretend to the civilized
world that the American Sunday was still
"a surviva. of the Puritan Sabbath, which
vas the enforcement of a Hebrew tradi-
ton OF which Jesus Christ was q most n
~spicuous and habituai violator. Plenty of
exits can be quoted to prove that the He
brew Sabbath was no. only a religious dav,
bal, one of recreation, rejoicing and feast
iug.
Deuteronomy gives one account of the
origin of the Hebrew Sabbath. while Ex-
s,dus gives us another. Jesus never re-
spec,ed the severe meaning of the day. for
hs ignored and often violated 1t. He said
il was made for man. not man for the Sab
sAbsA3, abtsAt t1t' ~ tt taN' shi
10 mans wants. He said: ait is lawful
10 do well on the Sabbath" that is. lawful
to do anything that Is proper on other
Gays, aud He acted on It just rs on other
Gays. and, consequently. was denounced
for Sahhath-breaking more than for any
thing else. John tells hov ONE SAID, '.IIe
Is not OF God. because He keepe,h not the
81 ~ - - -.
Sim for the same reason. Jesus passed
fir a Sabbath breaker and was. That
sgreat orthodox theo!ogian. Archbishop
Nha,eley. says; Jesus did decidedly
and avowcily violate the sabbath" Pani
,,ypits the commandment about tie Sab
bath whcn he quotes the decalogue. He
tells the Romans that !, Is OF no account
whether a man ''esteeincth one dav above
smother" or "esteeme,kevery day alike"
snd he rcbukes the Galatians because they
observe days" The epistle 10 the Colos-
slams says Jesus 'hlot,ed out the hand
eutlns of ordinances and took il out Of
tle way" and that, HIS ~ollowers are NOT
IL he Judged in respect Ia a holy day, or
IS the new moon. or ~ ghe sabbath lay."
There - no; IA the whole New TestS-
Esen, n precept calling on man to keep the
Saohath. Hence the church abandoned
x Finally it vas positively forbidden.
Ea 3S \. T., - Cvrai wrote. "Hcneefor,h
aeject ali observance 81 Sabbath" In StS
tie council % Iaoslseea forbade Christians
Il, rest on that day ard ior nearly I-v0
sesrs. excep, among seventh Day .Ad-
esnusts aad slml'ar seess. the Christian
cl.agch has kep: no Sabbath. Another
say - soon Sc apart 10 take the pace of
tae ~asbaih ahsosa;ei n ;he Nrs Tests
+ leest AMI by tAe early church. Il was
i ~ hy sclls,Sas meetings. bct FOR i song
t.Hae Isnor WAS ~Rlioaes OF a. Ercn "a
l9te as me Emperor Constantine persons
acre s,.oaei "a labor freely Oh sunday.
3 & Es !. D. II. Jerome tells box thriS-
5 tkaas returning from. cagrca app3ies. them
SOLVES - their allotted work and ma.s
! garments Chsy.emsnge finally fo.eate
+ .ai~er ESP >~antay.
( The doctrine tast sunday was : sats,r-
( sas,c Ter tae f~Iesvew sabbath wns rs5ecsel
E SIS the great Protestant reicrnaers. Me
{ iisnctAon. n0the- aust CALVIN. CALVIN ~.
/ liukea ghe s4ue~>sttjon az ~Ahbaissus."
+ .st Lattice ana calvin both denied ;hAs
tsere = any >crptursi Obligation 20 OBJ
shegs sunday. treating il a. L purely ecris-
+ :, .ssicAs ob,is8slS resting rather or srAit-
.ssn ts4as ga anv is~ q tsssi Binding oa
! saAsa Of sGaasy ~ tie great eody oi the