Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1879-07-11


ING communication to the indianapolis
NSlrs will probably prove interesting and
edifying to the managers OF those insti-
buttons:
SUNDAY EXCURSIONS AND BUSINESS.
To the Editor:
At the business meeting at the Board
of Trade Hall the other night, Mr..
Scbuster struck the right key. The
proposition of Mr.. Martlndale and 9TH
ers to run frequent excursion trans 10
this city with view TO increasing the
retail trade was good, as far as 1t went,
but the difficulty is that the country
people, particularly the farmers, cannot
afford the time, hence the Sunday trains
would be well patronized. 1t is one oil
the evidences OF marked Improvement
i'm public opinion that such propo-
sition meets with no such OpposltlCn
from the sO-called religionists asst would
have encountered twenty-five, or even
ten. wears ago. Little by little these
censOrs of the public morals have come
to confess that their hostility 10 Sunday
excursions was pure fanatlcIsm. The
denomination heretofore most consplcu.
Gus i'm its hostility TO Sunday work oil
all kinds, has become Is conspicuous lor
lis patronage OF sunday travel, and all
i'm behalf OF the money 1t brings into
their Golfers. They 20 annually To Ac-
ton and 10 Battle Ground land similar
campmeetings % are held in almost
every Northern State and the SUNDAY
trims are encouraged openly and avOw-
edly for the money they BRING
into the Church Golfers. The Church
not only gets its per cent. oil the
money paid for passage, but IT'S lndlrect
,,ains are even more. AS an induce
ment to keep over Sundays and bring
LARGE crowds, first, the tent-hOlders are
furnished with free transportation oil
goods. and, for one round trip TAT eXcur-
sion rates. every tent-hOlder Is iur-
nished with a free pass Tor the entire
meeting; then the hOtel-keePer furnish
a. boarding TO each family at prime cost
or even less, and pays a large rent, or IL
cense. for a monopoly OF the boarding,
the income 10 the church from peanut,
ice-cream, cigar and other stands, with
the privilege of selling on sunday, Is al
most fabulous.
Mr.. Schuster made happy suggestion.
let Ms have an excursion train on every
road every SUNDAY. Ii at first some eX-
cursionists should be Scrupulous as 10
the violation Of the sO-called Sabbath,
they will find religious services at more
than a hundred stands, at los clock.
BY the way, it would be 4 religious work
10 bring these thousands from the rurdl
districts 10 our city OF churches, where
the Gospel can be preached 10 them.
There is no good reason why we may
not average ten thousand eNcuIslOnlStS
every sunday. from the first OF May
each wear To the first OF November, 4
every road will enter heartily into the
measure. Ii ut first very little
trade is secured outside OF
the hotel. and lunch and cigar
stands IL will pay 20 advertise our city
and make the tributary country familiar
with the stores and shops which now
keep rich displays OF goods, over sun
dav. IN every show window. In very
lew years. il not at once, every article
from good cigar to 4 good suit o,
clothes, or even bill of goods, can be-
hal of our city dealers. 10 Is hoped
that the Board OF Trade and the rail
roads will carefully consider the sugges-
ton of Mr.. >chuster from a financial
and business point OF view, while the
religious people give it their hearty IN
dorSemeut, rs means of reaching the
destitute portions Of the State with the
Gospel.
BUSINESS, RELIGION x Co.
The editor OF the Cincinnati Christian
.ldrorg,s, an official paper OF the Metho-
dist Episcopal Church, thinks that this
communication sounds wonderfully
like sarcasm" and asserts that no one
tween camp meeting trains and those
proposed by Business, Religion x Co.
The IdrOclt, alSoatHrms that the General
Conference, and almost every annual
conference, and preachers meeting, AMI
district and quarterly conference have
protested against the running OF sun
day trains 10 campmcetings, and that to
these official protests have been added
the protests OF every official Methodist
paper in the United States. Still the
campmeetiugs are held by interested
parties, "only a very few closing their
gates on sunday
The IJroeUs sIys: at requires no
prophetic ken % see that sooner or later
this must tend To- an increase Of miSce.-
laneouS SUNDAY travel, and especially -
SUNDAY excursions. IL Is needless 10
urse that these campmcctlng excursions
are in the interest OJ religion. The
world does not care Tor such plea.
This leading official journal enters its
protest against the Methodist Episcopal
Church, as such, being held in any de-
gree responsible for the conduct Of those
Methodists who disregard the uniform
protest and resolves OF the Church in all
its recognized official bodies. 1t adirms
that they DO not represent Mcthodism,
and adds:
"No preacher can atiorl To stand in
such a relation 10 this system of Sab
bath breaking as would tie their hands
and shut their mouths from denouncing
consistently the growing disregard OF
the Christian sabbath which is mani
testing itself on every side.
Now, this is none OF our quarrel,
but il strikes Us rs one of the signs of
the times. As friends Of morality, OF
the laboriug man, and of community
and national prosperity, We are in favor