Show opposed to sabbath breaking the following preamble and resolutions were adopted at the union meeting held in the first congregational evening may 13 whereas we believe that the permanency of our national institutions and also the highest welfare of every community and of all alt classes and conditions of society are intimately and inseparably connected with the general and special observance of the sabbath both as a day of worship and rest and whereas this conviction is supported by many undeniable facts among which are the following lol lowing 1 the institution of the sabbath is one of principal corner stones of the church and HB efi such lies at the foundation of public morality and of social law and order 2 the sabbath is the one day on which the rich and the poor and all classes and conditions of men can meet together on a common level at a high plane and in a a spirit of entire sympathy and fraternity 3 the sabbath 0 the longmans work wor ingmans peculiar I 1 aar birthright secured to him lor all time b by divine ordinance and by the laws of enlightened ight ened people it is the perpetual as urance to him of the essential nobility of his own nature and of the supreme rights of his soul it is the bulwark of his well being physical mental and moral and hence the franchise of hial bi true liberties therefore Be resolved solved 1 citizens of salt lake city in mass meeting assembled hereby pledge ourselves to do our by example and precept to preserve the true sanctity 98 of the sabbath day in this community where its general observance is now very seriously threatened 3 that we invite all right minded and public spirited men and women and all societies cie ties organizations and corporations to ce boope operate r atewll with us te this end 3 that a committee be appointed to pre r ent these considerations to the officials ot of the railroads entering this city and urge upon them that the practice of running sunday excursion trains to the bathing resorts and elsewhere be hereafter discontinued |