The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1883-01-31

uoiy' but there is q difference oil opinion
as TO what day is the Sabbath. Some
men observe Saturday as the Sabbath
If that argument was reasoned out all
would have to rest on Saturday. The
New Testament does not SO much favor
the Sabbath idea. Men take Christ's
words g Man was not made for the Sab
bath, but the Sabbath for man. He
held that man aud boast required one
days rest out of seven, and he beliyed that
it was best that all should rest as far as
possible. But we must have some work
done on Sunday. If a minister wanted TO
go to Pennington to preach, he had to
hire horse and a driver, so two men
break the Sabbath in that instance, while
four men would carry hundred passen-
gers on Sunday train to that town. A
meeting had recently be held, and on.
Sunday, too, that resolved that g we, the
citizens of Lambertvile are unanimously
opposed to Sunday tlains,n &c. The
means all the citizens and the statement
was not true. The strongest reasons that
could be given by the Presbytery OF New
Brunswick for their opposition was that
people would congregate at the depots,
and that it invited excursions on that day.
of course people who wanted to go on the
TRANS would congregate at tho depots,
but if the Penna. r. II. " invited excur-
sions' on that day, he didn't know it.
The objections weie far-fetched. So it APP
peared those two evils were all that the
Presbytery could name, after protesting
to have personal know ledge of them by
observation. He knew of no evils in run
ming Sunday trains. They accommodate
men who work in the shops, men who get
left Saturdays, and persons who wish to
visit sick relatives, etc. Besides, all the
other towns around here have Sunday
trains-Flemington, Hopewell, Yardley-
vile, Doylestown, &c.-therefore there is
discrimination against Lamberlville
He had heard no complaint either at Flem-
ington or Doylestowu, Are we SO much
better than others that we should be de-
prived People who had lived in other
places and enjoyed the Sunday news
papers, would be prejudiced against this
place, and no doubt wealthy men had
been kept from settling here by the want
al Sunday accommodations. Men had To
work in furnaces ON Sundays, aud it was
no more wrong for railroad men To work.
Before Sunday horse cars ran in the cities,
large lines of carriages with their drivers
stood in front of the churches while their
owners were ins'ue worshiping God fhe
ters did not say much about it, but they
opposed horse cars. Now horse cars run,
people ride in them TO church and the car
riage drivers can go to church, too, If
they want to.
A corporation is peculiar institution.
It has no life no soul--it never dies, aud
it don't care any more about the Sabbath
than for anything else. II runs trains be-
cause it pays. Ii is not likely it will run
trains on Sundays unless 1t pays. Ii the
Company thought that the late meeting
against Sunday trains expressed the feel
ing OF the people, it might not think it
would pay to run, but this meeting was
called to correct this impression. Petit
tious have been circulated and 700 names
secured. Wanted 10 get thousand.
He thought we would have no difficulty
within the next six months of living within
the Union aud having the same accommo.
dations that other towns have.
DR.. J. Hayhurst was then called for and
responded. lie said we are here as cti-
zens-free citizens, for the purpose of ex-
pressing our opinions upon a question
which is now agitating the communi-
ty. lie had attended the meeting called
for those who opposed the running of
Sunday trains, and the speakers there
seemed almost to exhaust the powers of
language in eudeavoring to impress their
hearers with the awful consequences of
running Sunday trains that Lambert
willie would not be fit to live in that the
t!aiBs would be loaded down with row
dies, tramps, rapscallions and the worst
element of society that they would be
turned loose upon us and the result would
be like the emptying Of a sewer into the
dry bed of a creek, where the filthy de-
lence and death, and that all who rode
upon these trains, must necessarily get
drunk and behave NO as to disturb the
peace and good order of the city. They
seemed to be sincere in their expression
and exercised their right to proclaim their
earnest conviction. But we have our
rights also. This is question of const
tutional liberty. Those who are opposed
to the running of Sunday trains would
deny Others the rights which the laws
would permit them to enjoy If they can
prevent me from travelling on the train,
why can they not stop mo from riding in
my carriage, or even from travelling on
foot if | should not happen to go in the
direction which they should approve ?
What harm can there he 10 taking train
for the purpose of visiting your relatives
and friends, or perhaps business may fo
the week, separate you from your family?
What harm eau result from passing you
sunday with your wife aud children ?
There are many persons living in this
city, who are confined all the week in
their stores, shops aud offices. What II
blessing it would be for them To breathe
the pure air of the country. They would
return TO their labors refreshed and in
vigorated for the toll of the coming week.
While the rich can enjoy the natural
scenery on the banks of our beautiful
river by rifle in their carriage, the poor
laborer is bound down TO his work during
the week aud cannot afford to hire