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or stage lines, or Sunday manufactories. Show 

 us a single Divine statute of limitation yielding 

 the privilege of Sabbath violation in but one 

 clear case, and we will yield the argument. 



3. The assertion, that if the Sabbath is not 

 improved for getting whales, the voyage will 

 be likely to prove a failure, is a mere assump- 

 tion; for prosperous voyages have been and 

 may be made, and ships filled without a whale 

 being struck on the Lord's day. What has 

 proved true in one instance, other things being 

 equal, there is reason to believe would prove 

 true in all. 



4. The obligation of the Sabbath is univer- 

 sal, and extends to all men alike, on the sea 

 and land. The Sabbath was made for man 

 universally, as a worker, under all circumstances- 

 By man, therefore, it is to be always kept. It 

 was given to the race by God, for rest and holy 

 worship, and every individual of the human 

 family, to whom the law comes, is bound so to 

 use it. 



5. The man who conscientiously takes care 

 to have the Sabbath sanctified by himself, and 



