Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 June 1893 — Boycotting the Fair. [ARTICLE]

Boycotting the Fair.

One of the acts of the Christian Endeavor Convention, in the afternoon session of last Wednesday, was to adopt a resolution which not only strongly censured the World’s Fair authorities for opening on Sunday, but which also pledged those favoring the resolution to stay away from the fair entirely, week days as well as Sundays, and also to use every endeavor (Christian Endeavor) to prevent others from attending. In other words, deckring a boycott. It was a foolish, narrow, unmnided and unChristianlike resolution, and although no one had moral conrage to rise up and vote against the resolution, at the risk of a personal excoriation from some of the more zealous than wise persons who were trying to push the resolution through, it still is much to the credit of the good sense and good hearps of the members of the Endeavor society present, that only a very light vote could be drummed up in favor of the resolution- And even when a second attempt was made to get a respectable showing of members upon their feet, in favor of the resolution, the result was no greater than the first attempt. Small as the vote wgs, in favor of the resolution, it would certainly have been much smaller, had not a number voted for it under the erronious idea, that the boycotting pledge referred only to attending the fair on Sundays. In marked contrast with this boycotting resolution are the utterances upon this same subject of Rev. James L. Hill, D. D.. of Boston. Mr. Hill is one of the leading trustees of the United Society of Christian Endeavor. He is also one of the editors of tiie Golden Buie , and what be says has the full weight ot authority. He says: *

“The Christian Endeavor has issued no boycott on account of the Sonday opening of the World’s Fair,” he said. “Stonewall Jackson once told some advisers that he had made a fortune simply by minding his own business. The strength of the Christian Endeavor is that it minds its own business. We make a specialty of minding our own business. * We strive to help the church—as the Sonday school helps it. It has been said that John Wanamaker indorsed the boycott of the Christian Endeavor. There is no boycott—there will be no boycott. There is great intensity of feeling in regard to the question of Sunday opening. If it closed on Sunday we shall rejoice, bat there wilt be po boycott—it is not of us, it is an uncanny word—we have abjured it.”

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