Not a Joke by Editor

International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Feb 11, 1886

Not a Joke.

By Editor

THE San Francisco Bulletin says: "A movement against Sunday railroad trains is on foot in Rhode Island. A railroad train running on Sunday in Rhode Island disturbs public worship in every church in the State." While this may seem to be merely a newspaper joke on the small size of the State of Rhode Island, we can assure our readers that it is no exaggeration. California is more than one hundred and forty-four times as large as Rhode Island; and it is not long since a large proportion of the church people in the State were disturbed beyond measure because a few people were quietly working on their farms or in their shops on Sunday. There is scarcely any limit to the disturbance that may be caused by a very little quiet work on Sunday. Rhode Island is not peculiar in this respect.