The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1841-12-28 00:00:00

EDINBURGH AND GLASGOW RAILWAY

A MEETING of Merchants, Manufacturers, and others
.C 1 in Glasgow, who disapprove of Railway Travelling on
the Lord's Day, was held in the RELIGIOUS INSTITUTION
Rooms, on the 14th Day of December, 1841, for the purpose
of considering what measures ought to be adopted, in conse-
quence of the Directors of the Edinburgh and Glasgow Rail-
way Company having declared their opinion that there ought
to he a Train on the morning and eves of Sabbath.
WILLIAM CAMPBELL, Eirq., in the Chair.
The Meeting having taken into their serious consideration
the subject of Hallway Travelling on Sabbath, and especially
the threatened desecration of that holy day by the Edinburgh
and Glasgow Railway Company, unanimously adopted the
following Resolutions :-
1. That this Meeting deeply regret the opinion to which
the Directors of the Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway Com-
pany have come at a late meeting, at which, in terms of their
own Minute, they state, that " the Directors have come to
the determination of leaving the question of Sunday travel-
ling to he decided by the Shareholders, intimating, at the
same time, their own opinion, that there ought to be a train
in the morning and evening, but under such regulations as
shall enable the servants of the Company, and all persons
travelling by the Railway, to attend Divine Service."
2. That as this Meeting regard the running of Railway
trains on Sabbath as a violation of God's law, and a desecra-
tion of God's holy day, they disapprove of that opinion, and
however desirous they are of availing themselves of the faci-
lities and conveniences which the Railway is fitted to afford,
and anxious as they are to promote the prosperity of an en-
terprise so well entitled in other respects to public approba-
tion, and of which some of them are Shareholders, yet should
that opinion be concurred in, and finally sanctioned by the
Shareholders, which they earnestly hope will not be the case,
they feel themselves constrained, by a sense of duty, to with-
hold their countenance and support from the Company, and
resolve to give a preference, both in travelling and in the
transmission of goods, to other modes of conveyance, con-
ducted by Companies who refrain from desecrating the Sab-
bath. . . _ .

3. That as the final determination of the question has
been referred to the Shareholders, this Meeting resolve to
address a Memorial to them, in the earnest hope that they
will see it to be their duty to withhold their sanction from a
measure which would involve disobedience to a Divine com-
mand, do violence to the religious feelings of the people of
Scotland, and inflict a deep and lasting injury on the best in-
terests of the people in this portion of the United Kingdom.
4. That a Committee be appointed to obtain the signatures
of all those Merchants, Manufacturers, and others who con-
cur in the views of this Meeting, and who are willing to co-
operate with them in giving effect to these Resolutions.
WILLIAM CAMPBELL, Chairman.

SABBATH OBSERVANCE

EDINBURGH AND GLASGOW RAILWAY.
A T a Meeting of Ministers and Elders connected witl
IX Churches of different Denominations in Glasgow am
its Neighbourhood, held at Glasgow this 23d day of Novem
ber, 1841, called to receive an Official Communication ii
reply to the Memorial addressed by them to the Honourably
Board of Directors of the Edinburgh and Glasgow Railwa:
Company against the Running of Sabbath Trains,—
WILLIAM COLLINS, Esq., in the Chair,—

The Rev. Dr. SYMINGTON opened the Me4lng with prayer.
The Meeting having fully considered thesaid communica-
tion, unanimously resolved as follows :
I. That this Meeting have learned, with profound regret
and serious alarm, that " the Directors have come to the
determination of leaving the question of Sunday Travelling
to be decided by the Shareholders, intimating at the same
time their own opinion, that there ought to be a Train in
the morning and evening, but under such regulations as shall
enable the servants of the Company. and all persons travel-
ling by the Railway, to attend Divine service."
11. That, adhering to the views on this vitally important
question, which they had felt themselves called upon, as
guardians of the moral and spiritual welfare of the commu-
nity, to press in their Memorial upon the attention of the
Directors of the Railway Company, they now consider them-
selves bound to urge the same views immediately, and with
equal earnestness, upon the Shareholders, with whom the
decision of the question is to rest, in the hope that they may
be induced to withhold their sanction from a course which
would do direct violence to a Divine command, contravene,
as is confidently believed, the law of Scotland, outrage the
best feelings of the Scottish people, and inflict a serious and
lasting injury on the welfare of this part of the United King-
dom.
111. That, as the running of Sabbath Trains on the Edin-
burgh and Glasgow Railway would prevent a large portion of
the Christian public of Scotland from making use of it at all
—bound, as very many would feel themselves to be, whatever
personal disadvantage, to withhold their countenance and
support from a Company which sanctioned and required, be
Sabbath traffic, the desecration of the Lord's day—this
Meeting feel that, in order to be provided against the possibly
disappointment of their anxious wishes on this subject, they
are driven to the necessity of adopting measures to ascertain
what other lines of communication may be open to them, in
the event of so great a calamity taking place.
IV. That a Committee be appointed to prepare the Me-
morial to the Shareholders, and generally
to adopt all com-
petent means for giving effect to the above Resolutions.
WILLIAM COLLINS, Chairman.