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Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Jan 18, 1883

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 9, No. 3.

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Sunday Railroading.

To THE circular of Rev. Rufus W. Clark, of Albany, N. Y., asking the leading railroad men of the country what they thought about running Sunday trains, President Dickson of the Delaware and Hudson Canal Company, replied: "I can only say that if I had the power, there would not be a wheel moved on that day upon any railroad of the company."
President Sloan of the Delaware, Lackawana, and Western Road, replied: "This company does not run Sunday trains, as we believe the efficiencies of the service, health and good discipline are promoted by rest on the Sabbath day."
The Christian at Work, commenting on the arrival in New York of forty freight trains on one Sunday, over the Central Road, says: "It ought to be stopped, and it might be if our State Legislature were given more to morals than to politics, and cared more for public peace than for President-making."