The daily morning journal and courier., 1897-11-01
4 NEW SUND4Y TRAIN.
Railroad Men Run n Gospel Meeting as It
 Should be Run.

Shades of Connecticut blue laws and substance of recent Sunday legislation!
 A Sunday train was run yesterday by the railroad branch of the Y. M. c. A. of this city. Bad as it seems, the event was not so bad as the seeming. The Sunday train was gospel train and so of course could be run by even a Y. M. C. A. without tearing down any ortho- dox fences or making the fathers of the new Sunday law lose any sleep.
 The gospel train" is railroad man S
 name for a gospel meeting.
 Although the gospel train' is new to this city the analogy between a train
 and religious meeting is apparent to
 one not a railroader. The train yester-
 day started out from the old Derby de-
 pot, now used for the purpose of the railroad branch of the Y. M. c. A., and
 was manned by a complete crew from
 the Pennsylvania railroad department
 of the Y. M. c. A. of Camden, N. J.
 Being railroad men of long experience
 they ran their train Otherwise the
 meeting) through on schedule time,
 making good connections, and staying
 on the track the entire distance achieve
 ments worthy the imitation of some of
 the more professional sermoniZers and
 evangelizers.
 There was a goodly number of rail-
 road men present to make the trip on
 the gospel train, and they gave earnest
 attention to what their brother railroad
 men had to say.
 ato of tay,t t11a eir oir,or nf
 hymn, handed the meeting over to the
 train crew. Brakeman w. A. Niece led in prayer. Extra man c. J. Butler sang a solo, "A Sinner Like Me-" the words and music being of his own com- position.
 Round House Foreman R. Doughty was next called into service. He said he had been a round house foreman for fourteen years, but was at present an engineer. He had seven forty-one years of railroad life. He had felt called of God to come here. He wanted to go to
 heaven when he died, for he had friends there. It behooves the railroad man to be always ready to die.
 Engineer T. J. Berman followed. He said if railroad man wanted anything in the line of promotion he had to ask for it. Asking his hearers if they pray ed, he said it was impossible for a man to pray and remain a sinner. Fireman S. L. Jones helped to get up more steam to run the train which was now bowling along at a rattling good speed. He said that on the Pennsyl- vania railroad on which he has been employed eleven years it was necessary in order to be a fireman to take an ex- animation to show fitness, and that you were not color blind. Thank God" fervently said the speaker, "an examin- ation is not necessary on this gospel train."
 Baggagemaster C. D. Provost per- formed his duties with precision and dispatch, and none of the passengers had any cause to complain because their baggage had been smashed or had strayed. He said very truly that baggage that is lost can't always be found, but the soul that Is lost can be saved. He found that his religion help- ed him in his work and helped him to get along with the public better. James Welden, head brakeman, was called to give a brief account of his
 experiences. He failed to set his brakes quite hard enough and as a result talk ed considerably longer than the other train hands. He gave an interesting account of his-fife.
 The trains crew then got together
 and sang Life is Like a Mountain
 Railroad" after which Car Builder Jes-
 SC Miller spoke of the advantage which Christian life had been to him. He was followed by other members of | the crew.
 The passengers alighted from the train about 4:3O o'clock, having enjoyed 8 pleasant hours trip.
 | The same train crew took a large train load of passengers over much the same route at the Howard avenue Con- gregational church last evening.