PLEA FOR WHALEMEN'S SABBATH. 



better and more respectable men, three sevenths 

 more easy and peaceful in their minds, and 

 one seventh the longer lived than those who 

 persist in profaning God's holy day; and it 

 would make owners at home all the better 

 Christians, or more likely subjects of the grace 

 of God here, and with less to answer for at the 

 great bar of judgment hereafter. 



At present it is said by many whaling cap- 

 tains, that their owners absolutely require whal- 

 ing on the Sabbath, as one of the conditions on 

 which they give them command of their ships. 

 It is also said that many of these ship-owners 

 are members of evangelical churches in Nan- 

 tucket, New Bedford, Fair Haven, Sag Harbor, 

 New London, Warren, Newport, Stonington, 

 and other places. Some owners say nothing to 

 their captains on the subject; but if their ships 

 do but return full, no inquiries are made how 

 or on what days the oil was obtained. 



Now and then a shrewd Yankee captain 

 guesses that his pious owners have no objections 

 to his t ah- ing oil n:1icn lie can get it. A full 

 ship iills the heart with joy, and lights up the 



