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UNDAY CLOSING OF THE MIDWINTER EXPOSITION.
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a Divine, will be violated. Let this be clearly understood by
ers. We repeat it: IF THE MIDWINTER EXPOSITION
BE OPENED ON Su
NDAY, NO LAW, ST
NILL BE VIOLATED. » STATE, FEDERAL, OR DIVINE,
CALIFORNIA HAS NO SUNDAY LAW,
othanday is Simply a holiday, subject to the same exemptions as
spent. Corton iy the law does not say how that day shall be
day, but the sam i" s of business are not legal if done on that
of July, or Admis inds are not legal if transacted on the Fourth
working or resting op: But everyone has the privilege of
attending chur hor 0! going to hear a lecture or a sermon, of
elds ure or theater, of staying at home or going to the
ligious books y he groves, of reading the Bible and other re-
relieving he on nd poppers, of doing missionary work and
man is not made a criminal attending a baseball game. A
"a an laudably do on other dnc 8 something on Sunday that
the nd this is Shot ns it should be. We do not mean by this that
and newennon c urch and theatet and ball game and picnic
of indir rs and Bible are alike good, and that it is a matter
ence in tha c° as to which men choose. It makes all the differ-
choose. But th as to what influences and occupations men
and all. It matte ge of choosing is alike sacred to each
thousand ad hr not though the baseballer may number one
right to compel e churchgoer but one, the baseballer has no
game on Sunda or coerce the churchgoer to attend a baseball
Side of his hs Y, por to so hedge up his way that it shall, out-
that the chur re © baseball or nothing. And it is just as true
right to com C goer, though he may number a thousand, has no
tend the church or coerce the baseballer or theatergoer to at-
shall, outside of his fc, nor so to hedge up his way that it
lege ; . rch or nothing. This privi-
is alike proms or refusing as to just how the day shall be spent
The law of Calif 0 both parties and is equally the right of each.
is as law abidi ornia grants it, and he who attends the theater
w abiding as he who attends the church.
NO FEDERAL JURISDICTION.
I . . .
nt 1 the hiner Fair be opened, no Federal law will be vio-
. at powers the Constitution did not grant to the Fed-
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government were reserved to the States and the people;
d the Constitution expressly forbids the law-making power of
this government to legislate in the religious domain. ‘‘Con-
ass shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion
prohibiting the free exercise thereof,’ are the words of the
Constitution. California is a free and sovereign State. The
Federal government has no more jurisdiction in respect to the
closing of the Fair on Sunday in San Francisco than it has in
fespect to the politics of the man the people of this State shall
oose as governor. It is not, therefore, a violation of national
law if the Exposition be opened on Sunday.
THE DIVINE LAW OF THE SABBATH.
It is not a violation of divine law if the Exposition be opened
‘Sunday. God has set apart but one day as the Sabbath, and
‘that is the seventh day, the day just before the first day of the
week. See Mark 16:1; Luke 23:56; 24:1; Matt. 28:1. The
“first day of the week” did not come, according to Mark, till
¥ the Sabbath was past.” The next day after the Sabbath was
“the first day of the week. The commandment for the Sabbath
‘is given in Ex. 20: 8-11, and is as follows:—
“Remember the Sabbath day to keep it holy. Six days shalt
‘thou labor, and do all thy work; but the seventh day is the Sab-
bath of the Lord thy God; in it thou shalt not do any work,
“thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy
_maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy
gates; for in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea,
and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day; wherefore
the Lord blessed the Sabbath day, and hallowed it.”
This commandment enjoins the seventh day. The following
are recognized principles in the interpretation of law:—
“In the case of all law, it is Zhe intent of the lawgiver thatis to
be enforced.”
«When words are plain in a written law, there is an end to all
construction; they must be followed.”
“When the intent is plain, nothing is left to construction.”
Certainly the words of the fourth commandment of the Dec-
- alogue are plain. If language means anything, that law means
© that the infent of the Lawgiver was that the seventh day should
* be the Sabbath, and this God based on reasons which will ap-