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my business exempts me from the obligation 

 of such a strict observance of it at sea." 



Now to all these specious efforts at self- 

 justification, which we have heard put forth at 

 different times, and by different persons, and to 

 every other of a similar sort, it is enough to 

 reply : 



1 . That there is no lawful worldly calling, 

 except that whose immediate end is to relieve 

 human suffering, or minister instruction and 

 comfort to the soul, which it is right to pursue 

 on the Sabbath. Six days shalt tJwu labour 

 and do all thy work. But the seventh is the 

 Sabbath of the Lord thy God : in it thou shalt 

 not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy 

 daughter, thy man-servant, nor thy maid- 

 servant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that 

 is within thy gates. For in six days the Lord 

 made heaven and earth, and all that in them 

 is, and rested the seventh day : wherefore the 

 Lord blessed the Sabbath day, and hallowed it. 



'l. God has revealed no indulgence in favour 

 of Sabbath whaling, any more than to Sabbath- 

 breaking railroad companies, steamboat, canal, 



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