The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1892-07-14
SABBATH DISSERTATION
The Ministerial Association Working
for a Reform

The Pastors Want the Warehouses
Closed and the Street Cars to StoT
Running on Sunday-Warehouse
men Meet the Preachers and The,
All Discuss the Matter-What Wa,
Done-Other Local Matters.
The Twin-City Ministerial Associ
alton has struck what the member!
term a knotty question.
The Association has for some time
been devising plans to break up Sab
bath dissertation in WinstonSalem
Remember the Sabbath Day tt
keep it holy is one of Gods com
mandments that is not kept as il
should be, so say the divines, and ir
consequence thereof the men who
preach Gods word deem it their duty
to use their best efforts in their
power to bring about reformation
along this line.
Among the Sabbath breaking evils
engaging the attention Of the pas
tors is the running of the street cars
and keeping open of warehouses.
Rev. S. B. Turrentine, of the Cen
tenary church, preached a strong
sermon on the subject of Remember
the Sabbath Day to keep it holy" a
few weeks ago. Rev. l.. G.. Brough-
ton, of the Broad Street Baptist
church, took up the same subject.
Both were plain and practical in
their remarks and emphasized on the
question of keeping the warehouses
open and the street cars running on
the day God set apart for rest.
The ministers continued to discuss
the above question in their Associa
ton meetings until it was decided
that time for some action had ar
rived.
At the last meeting of the Minis
terial Association the question OF
Sabbath dissertation came up for
discussion and the result was a
committee was appointed to wait on
the proprietors of the warehouses
and Manager Cooper, of the street
railway, to see if some understand
ing could not be reached relative to
closing the warehouse doors and
stopping the cars from running on
Sunday.
The committee called upon the
owners of the warehouses and mott
fed them of their business. The
warehousemen desiring to present
their side of the question asked that
a joint meeting of the tobacco men
and the ministers be held. The re-
quest was granted and a few days
ago the meeting was called. Three
of the warehouses were represented.
Only a few of the pastors were pre-
sent but these few showed up their
side of the question in biblical
terms.
The warehousemen took the ground
that they had no jurisdiction over
the matter; that it was better for the
farmers to come to the warehouses
and stay in the dry on Sunday than
for them to camp out near town.
One of then, said that he thought
the proper thing to do was for the
pastors in the adjoining counties to
preach to the farmers about hauling
their weed to market on Sunday.
He also asked the preachers if they
did not think it would be wise for
each one of them to write to the va
rious pastors in the neighboring
counties and ask them to preach a
sermon along that line.
One of the ministers present sta
ted that he was willing to accept the
terms and write to the preachers of
his denomination if the others would
do the same thing.
This did not take well With one
expounder of the WORD of God who
proceeded to show why it was the
duty of the warehousemen here to
take action in the matter. He argued
that the warehousemen could notify
the farmers that their houses would
not be open ON Sunday.
Before concluding his remarks it
was agreed by the warehousemen
present that on Monday mornings
they would go around their houses
and see how many farmers had come
there on Sunday and lecture with
them on the sin they were commit
ting by the action.
One pastor, it is learned, visited
some of the warehouses Monday
morning to see how matters were
progressing. At the first one he
found the warehouseman and a
farmer engaged in a conversation
but they were not discussing matters
along the line desired by the preach
err. The tobacco seller was called
away while the divine proceeded to
preach his little sermon to the man
from the country. When the two
parted the tiller of the soil admitted
that he had done wrong and that he
would never do so any more.
the second warehouse was visited
and the preacher received cordial
welcome from the proprietor who
said that he was happy to say that
not single farmer had rolled into
his house on Sunday.
The pastors are very earnest in
their work and believe that if the
proprietors will all keep their pledge
much good can be accomplished in
keeping farmers from trying to save
time by starting to market with
their tobacco on a day that will
cause them to break one of God'l
commandments.
The committee appointed to wal
on Manager Cooper has not reported
yet.
Owing to the absence of severa
pastors the next meeting Of tn.
Ministerial Association will not b,
held until the first Monday in Sep
tember.
Nearly Twelve Thousand Melons.
Winston-Salem people are yer.
fond of water melons, it would seen
from the number they have eat thu
far during the season. A car loa.
hnr.r, To- rx 1T !,