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Show LABORERS SHOULD HAVE A SABBATH NEW YORK. April 18. Pleas for more general observance of the Sabbath as a day of rest for. laboring men have been made at church services in Men- i delssohn hall. The principal speaker.' Dr. William R- Huntington of Grace church, declared that with the growing disregard for the Sabbath there is fostered great danger of lawlessness which spreads like wildfire. "We are ceasing, he said, "to be the law-abiding citisens we formerly were. To the American people it Is not now a question of how one shall observe the day. The question Is how shall we save the Institution. There are two bonds holding together to-gether the Christians of the world the Holy Bible and the Sabbath day. If one wants to preserve and keep these bonds we must keep the Sabbath as a reminder re-minder of almighty God. "X day of rest is good for the workmen. work-men. Over 90 per cent of the railroad men west of the Mississippi do not have one. It seems as if it were safer for life and limb to be a murderer than to be a brakeman. |