Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1896-04-27
FOR SUNDAY OBSERVANCE.
Three Lectures Delivered Yesterday by
Rev. DR.. Thompson,
Who is the General Manager Of the
Sunday League Of America-He
Talked of Roosevelt's Administra-
ton in New York, and Other Live
Matters Other Religious Matters

The Rev. DR.. Thompson, general
manager of the Sunday League OF
America, delivered very interesting
and eloquent lecture On the administra-
ton as Chief OF Police Of the city OF
New York of Theodore Roosevelt, at the
First Christian Church yesterday after
noon. DR.. Thompson made some very
startling disclosures in regard to the
great good the city of New York had re-
ceived, from a neral standpoint, and
every remark bore evidence OF being
the statement OF fact.
He said that during the first month
of Roosevelt's administration the clos
ing OF saloons on Sunday in the city OF
New ork had reduced sunday drunk
enness forty per cent, and that steady
reduction had continued every month
since the first. In the next place, sta
tistics show that felonies of all kinds,
seven days of twenty-four hours each TO
the week. decreased ten per cent. dur
ing the eight months of Mr.. Roosevelt S
administration. He said that the num-
Der of accidents happening on Sunday
had decreased fifty per cent. since the
administration began, and that some OF
the accident wards in the hospitals in
the city of New York had been entirely
empty every Sunday since the forbid
ding of Sunday liquor selling.
Further, the small deposits in banks
throughout New York city have in
creased very materially, despite the fact
that a large number of the laboring
classes have been unemployed This
is the consequence of the saving OF
money by men who work six days dur
ing the week and would otherwise
spend money for drink on the seventh
but for the fact that mere is no place
| where it can be procured.
Near the close of his address, DR.
Thompson disclosed the reason for the
| disfavor Mr.. Roosevelt was held in by
the New York newspapers. He has
saved the city of New York $4,000 in
election printing matter. The print
ing matter furnished for the elections
during 1894 amounted to $4,000. In
1895 it amounted TO $4,000. This de-
crease is due 10 the fact that Mr.
Roosevelt waited and gave the orders
for printing to the highest bidders.
Dr.. Thompson also preached to the
congregation of the Third Presbyte-
rian Church in the evening. He took
for his theme the Importance of pre-
serving the Sabbath, and declared its
consequent benefit to man physically
socially, Intellectually and morally
He handled the subject at length, and
made a very eloquent and interesting
discourse.
The services at Fourth Street NJ. E.
Church in the morning were very well
attended. Dr. Thompson took for his
text Our fathers trusted in Thee.
He dwelt upon the fact that the found
ers of the country intended that it should
be run upon an entirely Christian ba-
sis, and that Sunday observance should
be strictly and rigidly enforced. He
analysed the Declaration of Independ-
ence. and also the United State Consti-
tuition, and said he found that in the
first article of the latter was a Sunday
law. and also quoted Justice Story, the
first writer on the Constitution, to show
that the founders intended TO establish
a Sunday law.