New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1894-12-11
FOE MEETING SUNDAY As 4 Dii or HENI.
THE AMERICAN SABBATH UNION Is ANXIOUS TO
STOP SUNDAY ANIt'SEMENTs.

THE AMEHICAN SABBATH UNION Is ANXIOUS TO
STOP SUNDAY AMI'sEMENTs
4, Calvary Church in West Fifty-seventh-st.
meeting was held yesterday morning under the
,,,spIccs Of the American sabbath Union to consider
the Sunday question in it, various aspects. MIS-
Mary Lowe Dickinson presided and opened the
meeting She introduced Mrs. Mary Lowe McEwan
who delivered an address on The Sabbath ana
Home Missions" Mrs. McEwan said in part;
..rhe recent campaign emphasized pety. not poll
tics Religion and patriotism joined hands. Their
divorce had brought national ana nunlclpal peri"
Their union means enthusiasm guided by conscience
The moment f. propltious for subject "h''h IKE
the sabbath and home missions Is both national ana
religious The Western towns spend the sabbath
In horse-r,cinr gambling drinking and dancing
nuslness is brsker that day than any other IN the
week" -
,,rs Mcrwan is the wife of the Rev Henry J.
Nct.,ynn and is a member Of The Women rNecu
live Committee Of Home Missions Of the fr'spy
,.ri,n church, Or George 5. Mott. president ot
the Union said that something should he zone 10
mn, a sion TO Sunday entertainments ana amuse
n,cnts lie said that they were becoming more
nr.yalcnf and likely to become fashlonapi'
Rcsolutions proposed 10y Mrs. Mc'ir'w. were
,dopted in which they earnestly protest against
anv propostion to legrlize the opening OF saloons
for the sale OF liquor during any part OF sunday
letter Of regret was read 10y Mrs. blchih@oh
from Marie Louise Beebe. In when she espresso"
b.r most hearty sympathy with the movement
An afternoon session was held AT IN" Methodist
Mission House. The proceedings opened VIII" ue
reading of the annual report by the KEY Joseph
H. KnowIea general secretary. The report sho"ed
that from the correspondence during the preceding
v.ar with members OF the union all over the
country there was cause for acknowledgements
and that public sentiment was In favor OF sunday
rest.
The Rev Or. George s. Mott then Delivered al
address on the question OF Wv neither ouhuaS
TravoI and Freightage Railroads cannot Be
Reduced TO a Lower Minimum Than has Yet
uaon Reached" The speaker gave STATISTICS
showing that 10000 trainmen. 2so0 railroad con,
ductors % 900 railroad telegraph operators aiI..
AZ 600 locomotive engineers had declared III i"'o'
OF rest on sunday. all. ., ,-aivar,,
t,1im,,ef church when "rhe American SabDatn'
rs relation To good citizenship ana iris-
ian nrogr.ss and the duty OF young people 10
,,'a1n,atn II was the subject OF discussion. teso
n,a sa werc odoptej which protested against the
nnnounced purpose OF the liquor interests III New
York and other great cities OF the state 70 secuIe
legislative action which shall repeal existing laws
AGAINST the sale OF liquor on sunday, ana calico
as iii religious teachers and patriotic citizens TO
arouse the conscience OF the public To resist TINS
threatened action 4, ,,,..., y, I o,.,,t
ce-nreslent OF tn" Epworth League; JONI, W
Hndrrv O. A. Warburton. secretary OF the ran
ro.d pr lucn Young Mems Christian Associations
The Rev, Alfred f. Myers, president OF the br9ti,-
erhood OF Andrew and Philip; the iseV. w n ii"u,
christian Endcavor. and Mrs; Margaret Bottome,
,rnsijent OF the Interna tonal order OF hins
Uanchters and SONS The Rev. DR. X. >. Macar-
tbur DENOUNCED the Sunday opening OF saloons