Sunday Bicycling Editorial

New York, 1895

The Rev. Dr. Cooper of the Church of the Redeemer at Astoria takes a sensible and at the same time a liberal Christian view of the Sunday bicyclist, and if all clergymen would do the same there would not be so many empty seats in the churches. The man who goes to church on his wheel may be quite as devoted to worship as the man who goes there grandly in his coach, and the cycler should have the preference, for he is not depriving other men of the opportunity to worship God on Sunday by keeping them at work grooming horses and driving them.

—The Long Island Farmer, Jamaica, NY, May 31, 1895, p. 4.