OPEN-AIR MEETINGS.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXIV, Issue 231, 28 September 1903, Page 3

OPEN-AIR MEETINGS.

FREEMAN'S BAY.

An open-air meeting under the auspices of the Helping Hand Mission was held in Freeman's Bay last night. The usual hymns were played by the band, at the opening. Mr W. G. Edmonds, addressing the meeting, said the object of the Tram Company in bringing forward the Sunday tram question was tkat they might reap a better harvest, and citizens should prevent this desecration of the Sabbath. He thought if the cars were allowed to run on Sundays it would destroy the peaoefulness of the Sabbath. Mr 11. E. Paoey said it would be, inconsistent for any Christian man to support the running of trams on the Sabbath. If the Tram Company carried their proposals he felt confident that the existing satisfactory state of affairs in connection with the absolute closing of the hotels at Onehunga would be completely altered. With the advent of Sunday trams must come the opening of hairdressers' and fruiterers' shops, etc., and the outcome of it all would be drudgery, degradation, and sin. H_ moved, "That this mass meeting of Auckland citizetns assembled in Freeman's Bay dg hereby protest against the suggested running of the trams on the Sabbath, and urge upon all lovers of Christian principles and humanity to vote against the proposal on j

Wednesday next." , | Mr Price seconded. '| The motion was declared to be eat* ried unanimously. \ A resolution to the same effect was passed at the Mission service before* hand. I