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fessors, that seem to take gain for godliness, 

 and make a " gospel of their maw." 



Such men will do well to read and ponder 

 the following extract from the Narrative of an 

 Expedition to the Sources of the Mississippi, 

 by Henry Schoolcraft : " No Sabbath day was 

 employed in travelling. It was laid down as a 

 principle to rest on that day, and whenever it 

 overtook us, whether on land or on water, the 

 men knew that their labour would cease, and 

 that the day would be given them for rest. 

 Such of them as felt an inclination, had the 

 further privilege of hearing a portion of the 

 Scriptures read or expounded, or uniting in 

 other devotional rites. There were but a few 

 hours of a single morning and a few hours of a 

 single evening, of separate Sabbaths, at distant 

 points, which were necessarily employed in 

 reaching particular places ; and the use of these 

 appeared to be unavoidable, under the peculiar 

 circumstances of our local position. 



" It may, perhaps, be thought, that the giv- 

 ing up one seventh part of the whole time em- 

 ployed on a public expedition, in a very remote 



