222 THE WHALEMAN'S ADVENTURES. 



CHAPTEK XV. 



CLAIMS AND ADVANTAGES OF THE SABBATH IN 

 A WHALE SHIP. 



" When the Sabbath's peaceful ray 

 O'er the ocean's breast doth play, 

 Though no throngs assemble there, 

 No sweet church-bells call to prayer, 

 Spirit ! let thy presence be 

 Sabbath to the mustering sea." 



Mrs. Sigourney. 



Sabbath for a Whale Ship Whale Ship Sabbath-breaking 

 Pretexts for Pretexts answered False Pleas refuted In- 

 consistent Profession Experience of a Pious Sailor Testi- 

 mony as to the Sabbath A Word to the Sabbath Keeper. 



Atlantic Ocean, Commodore Prefile, latitude 32 N., longitude 

 64 J W. Off the Bermudas. 



,A LEADINGr end in the preceding sketches 

 -OL of whaling life has been to prepare the way, 

 and secure attention, for certain considerations 

 upon the wholesale violation of the Sabbath in 

 this business. By the Whalemen's Shipping 

 List, at the commencement of 1 844, or there- 



