24-1 THE WHALEMAN'S ADVENTURES. 



and let them apply themselves ; or, as fearing 

 to offend wealthy parishioners, whose support 

 the Church cannot well spare from one or all 

 of these reasons combined, ministers in whaling 

 ports (unless we have been greatly misinformed) 

 have had little or nothing to say upon the sin 

 of Sabbath whaling ; and their parishioners 

 have, consequently, kept on owning and sailing 

 in Sabbath-breaking ships, kept in countenance 

 by their own ministers' silence, which has (em- 

 phatically to them) spoken consent. 



I can hardly help reflecting upon the fidelity 

 of clergymen at whaling ports, in some of which 

 there have been of late years powerful revivals 

 of religion, that ship-masters, officers, and men, 

 converted in those very revivals, have gone out 

 upon the high seas, organized companies of 

 Sabbath breakers. Surely, if there be the least 

 propriety in speaking of a slave-holding Christ- 

 ianity, this may as well be called a Sabbath- 

 breaking Christianity. But no ! there is no 

 propriety in either, when we call things by their 

 right names. There can be such a strange ano- 

 maly as slave-holding, Sabbath-breaking Christ- 



