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ward. Yea, if thou acquaintest thyself with 

 Him, and return unto Him, the Almighty shall 

 be thy defence, for then shalt thou delight thy- 

 self in the Almighty, and shalt lift up thy face 

 unto God ; and thou shalt make thy prayer 

 unto Him, and He shall hear thee." 



But having referred to this "testimony and 

 experience of one who so long and so well put 

 the principles we now advocate to the strictest 

 test, we will here adduce an illustrative example 

 or two, taken from Sabbaths in the Arctic Regions- 

 being a portion of Dr. Scoresby's work entitled 

 Memorials of the Sea. 



Preliminary to the narratives referred to, 

 the author remarks : " It was in the last four 

 voyages, wherein my personal interest in the 

 fishing, from holding a considerable share in 

 the concern, was the greatest, that the Provi- 

 dential testimonies to Sabbath observance were 

 the most striking. During this period, the 

 pecuniary interest to myself alone, in the cap- 

 ture of a large whale, was, not unfrequently, 

 near 300, whilst a single day's successful fish- 

 ing might afford a personal advantage, as in 



