264 THE WHALEMAN'S ADVENTURES. 



holy Lord's day shall be rescued from profana- 

 tion by the great whaling and merchant fleets ; 

 the abundance of the seas shall be converted 

 to God, and to the observance especially of this 

 great ordinance of creation's Lord, THOU SHALT 



REMEMBER THE SABBATH DAY TO KEEP IT 

 HOLY. 



There 's a good time coming for seamen, 

 and that, we trust, not far off. We thankfully 

 recognise the law of progress and reform as 

 true of them, and already remarkably developed 

 in this day. We gladly share in the cheering 

 faith of Dr. Bushnell, that the time is at hand 

 when all that pertains to commerce is to be 

 sanctified by virtue and religion, as of right it 

 should be ; ' ' when commerce itself shall become 

 religious, and religion commercial; when the 

 mariners will be blended with all the other wor- 

 shippers on shore, in the exercise of common 

 privileges, and as members of a common bro- 

 therhood ; when the ships will have their Sab- 

 bath, and become temples of praise on the 

 deep ; when habits of temperance and banks for 

 saving will secure them in thrift, and assist to 



