Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1906-06-06
PROTEST. AGAINST
TRAINS ON SUNDAY
Ministers and Others Meet at
Dover Today and Adopt
Resolutions.
DR.. WAIT SAYS OLO LAW IS GOOD
And That Arrests Under II
Win Put a Stop to Sunday
Trains-The Protest. of
the Meeting.
snsclal DISPATCH 10 Every EvenIns.

Special Dispatch % Every Evening.
Dover, June 6. Seventy people,
chiefly Methodist Episcopal ministers,
responded to the call for an anti-Sun-
day train meeting, which was held in
the Century Club here today. Nine
women were in the audience.
The meeting was opened at 10
o'clock by Presiding Elder S. NJ. Nor
gan OF Dover District of Wilmington
NJ. Z. Conference, one of the advo-
Gates Of this movement Rev. Alfred
Smith was made temporary chairman,
and Rev j. A. Arters, temporary. SEQ
retary. Rev. Robert Watt was elected
permanent chairman and Rev. ID. NJ.
Carpenter, secretary.
Chairman Watt regretted the small
attendance of women, as the W, Q. Il.
U. had been invited TO take part in
the movement. He said the manage
ment Of the Delaware railroad had
said the Sunday trains had been put
on largely at the request of church
people, but he thought the church
should insist upon a proper observance
of the Sabbath, and that 10 should not
be a matter of individual judgment.
| He said before the excursion season is
on the railroad company will find that
| there is a pestiferous minority which
is causing trouble. God Is with us, ~
he added the law Of this land is
with us. The courts are with us, and
what more do we wantf We have been
| classed as a nuisance, but we want 60
be a nuisance in matters of this kind. "
After practically adopting resolu-
tians calling upon the railroad CON-
/ many to cease operating Sunday trains,
to draft resolutions and retired fol
that purpose: Rev. A. W. Lightbourne,
FIJI. Moore, A. Q. Smith, G. L. Har.
desty, Ralph I. Coursey and Mrs.
Kate Smithers.
DIR. Watt said there is an old law il
| Delaware against desecration of the
Sabbath which will make IL possible
TO arrest the train crews who work on
Sundays. and he favored doing that
unless the company consents TO aban.
don the Sunday trains. do thai
once, he said, "and the trains will
stop.
After celebrating half an hour, the
committee reported five typewriter
pages of resolutions based upon a de
sired observance of the fourth com
mandment. The resolutions set forth
that God does not leave Sabbath OBJ
servance to private Interpretation o.
personal convenience, although II
almost everything else, God left III
free as to time and manner to worl
out our destiny under divine laws
humanity applied. But here, the.
continue, 1--WE are shut in 10 a al
yinely ordered routine by direct com
mand of God. forever fixing both tn
time and manner of our obedience. -
Following a lengthy preamble, tn
Sabbath, as set forth in the Bible ant
bv the laws of man, came these re
solutions:
, First-That it Is the duty of al
} christian people to reverence the Sab
hath as a devine, moral and civil in
stitution. That its observance as a da
2 of rest is of special Importance to lab
, ofinp population; that it is essentia
the maintenance of the pure worshi
: of God. and that its general desecra
+ tion would be attended with direfu
consequences.
Second-That any nation that disre
cards the sanctity of the Sabbath
incapable of attaining true Christia
. civiiization and that civil liberty can
not be preserved without it.
! Third-That it is the duty Of a.
! CHRISTIANS to sanctify the Sabbath b
refraining from all muscular labo
and work, amusements and by devoi
ING it to religious purposes.
Fourth-That we view with IL
dignant condemnation and serious al
nrebension the shocking violation {
our Sabbath by the Pennsylvani
Railroad Co., which Is now runnin