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lieve it will be profitable financially. A pastor said one day in his ser- 

 mon: "My milk, my meat and my bread will keep good from Saturday 

 to Monday morning." "Oh," said another. "So will anybody else's." "I 

 am glad to hear it," he said. But that very day my pastor took his dinner 

 at a boarding house and paid for it rather than have his wife get it. It 

 is a very difficult thing to adjust the seventh day for rest. I believe your 

 creamery and my business can be run more profitably by studying how to 

 reduce our Sunday work to a minimum, than doing a little more than is 

 necessary. We don't know how aggressive it is on God's day, not only on 

 us, but on the coming generation. I came here believing I would meet 

 men who were leaders, and I feel that I have done so. You are not only 

 leaders in prosperity, but leaders to a very great extent in settling the 

 moral tone of things. The moral tone of this nation is its salvation, and 

 there is no question that touches the moment, or prosperity and the future 

 education of America and the world, like a Sunday question. I do not 

 wish to be set down here in favor of running a factory or creamery on 

 Sunday. I am glad there is one man who dares to stand up here and says 

 he closes his factory on Sunday. I believe in keeping the Sabbath. 

 I can sit down and figure it out, that the buttermaker is doing 

 the work of forty women at their homes, and he is very concientious 

 in that way, and when I see the teams rattling through the towns 

 to the factory and back, I confess I was brought up to that kind of a 

 deal, and I have, worked at it many years to reduce it to a minimum, but 

 at the same time that the teams v-ere rattling through the streets it 

 grated on my, nerves, and I wished that we could get a breed of cows that 

 would only give six days' milk. 



Mr. Johnson: One man on duty on Sunday is all I have. I have been 

 half inclined to try it, but have not had the moral courage to tell my 

 patrons that. I would shut up on Sunday. 



Mr. Chairman: As much as ten years ago they had this matter under 

 discussion.., in the Bible class and there was quite a considerable feeling 

 about it, this Sunday work of the creamery. Well, I have never heard 

 anything of it since. They ended the discussion that we had at that 



