Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 July 1886 — Sunday Meetings. [ARTICLE]

Sunday Meetings.

If we contemplate the immense importance of the Sunday afternoon meetings of the organized laboring men throughout the nation, we shall find ourselves astonished*' that so little general attention is paid to those meetings. As a matter of fact, Saturday afternoon should be given over to them, and they should be prohibited oh Sunday. These meetings call the best husbands from their families. The Current would be happy to see the pastors of the churches sitting on the benches of the labor meetings. Surely the leading lawyers should be there. The present trade debates are important in their results, and yet themselves count for nothing in a large circle of the community. If eight hours must come, let Saturday afternoons be a part of the leisure gained, and let Sunday union work be abolished. Let the pastors of the churches be requested to take seats among the workingmen. That is where they belong. That would keep the social structure from catching fire. There is too much smoke-smell the way things are going.— Chicago Current.