The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1883-02-21
SABBATH OBSERVANCE.

Ii all who labor with brain or baud, or
with both combined, are not interested in
the observance of Sunday as a religious
day, they, at least, are all interested in it
rs a day of rest from their ordinary ayo-
cations
That all need one day in seven as such,
we have shown In previous article.
II all needs one days rest out of
seven, then, without reference to the re-
ligious question involved, those who de-
priye others of that day of rest in taking
theirs, are both selfish and unjust. II a
man rests on Sunday by taking pleasure
or a business trip on the railroad, he
thereby deprives tho employees who SER
vices are required on that day, from n
right that has been bequeaihed to them
from past generations. We know that it
will be said that the men who work on
Sunday will be allowed one days rest on
another day, but the practical working
on railroads that run Sunday trains dis
prove this.
If the running OF Sunday trains wero
the beginning and end OF the question, it
wonld matter but little in purely secular
view of the question. But II viii not end
here. Any argument that viii justify a
railroad company in running Sunday
trains to accommodate tho business or
pleasure of its patrons, will justify any
r. i 1.
ness man in doing business on Sunday.
The same semi. plausible reason fot
running trains on Sunday, because people
can take healthful pleasure tips, will
Justify man in keeping open his billiard
room and bowling alley, which are claim.
ed to offer heathful amnsements. And il
the Sunday train isallowed on the ground
of the necessities of business, then whal
reasen can justify the refusal to mann
lacturer of the right TO run his business
seven days. if he cannot otherwise Gil hi.
orders.
When Sunday trains are fully estab.
lished on all our railroads, the entering
wedge has been driven to scculariziug the
day, and II will not be long before other
grasping monopolies and grinding money
getters viii also claim the right to ride
over the law of God aud the poor mans
right to rest.
Already, on the nlaiu line of the Penn
sylvania r. II. Co., il is stated, more
freight is carried on Sunday than on any
other day IN the week That the freight
train will soon follow the Sunday passen-
yer train Is almost certain.
On the continent of Europe the ex-
pertinent of n holiday Sunday has been
tried, and the result has been that the
poorer classes work seven days in a week,
and for six days pay When the sacred
character of the day is destroyed and mon
come to look ut it rs only a day Of plea
sure, ii becomes easy for those whose
greed prompts them, to consider all days
alike and all good for grasping money.
Let the workingmen of this country
keep in mind these facts The seculariz-
ing of Sunday win lead gradually but
surely to the using of the day for the
ordinary business of life, aud tho conse-
quent demand that the workingmen shall
give their time all the days of the week.
This willnot be Of any financial advantage
tsthem, for there being one day more of
production in each week, there win be y
surplus Of labor and consequent reduc-
tion of wages, thus practically allowing
them only six days wages for seven days
work. The secularizing Of Sunday will
inevitably bring about these rasults It
may take half a century to fully accom-
plsh them, but they will certainly come.