Railroads Curtail Sunday Freight; Sabbath Revival Spreads
The signs of the times are not without some encouragement to the friends of the Sabbath [Sunday]. The Pittsburgh papers contain this item:— “Union line and National line freights on the P. R. R. will hereafter be run on week days only. The freight will not be received in Pittsburg on Sundays coming from the West, as heretofore. Perishable freight is about all the freight that is run on the P. R. R. on Sunday, at present.” Some fruit is manifestly appearing already from the efforts of the International Sabbath [Sunday] Association, and when it has extended its efforts, as it proposes, so as to secure the co-operation of the “shippers of perishable freight,” or even a considerable proportion of them, so that they will agree not to forward such freight so as to create an apparent justification for a Sabbath [Sunday] train to carry it through, its good work will be still more apparent. The Sabbath [Sunday] revival seems to extend also to Canada: “The authorities of Windsor [Canada] have received instructions rigidly to enforce the Sunday law, and to prosecute everybody who is caught hunting or fishing on the Lord’s day.”—Christian Statesman.