HOPES OF A GOOD TIME FOR SEAMEN. 265 



give them character ; when they will no more 

 live an unconnected, isolated, and therefore 

 reckless life, but will have their wives and chil- 

 dren vested here and there, in some neat cottage 

 among the hills, to be to them, when abroad, 

 the anchor of their affections, and the security of 

 their virtue ; when they will go forth also to dis- 

 tant climes and barbarous shores, with all their 

 noble and generous traits sanctified by religion, 

 to represent the beauty of Christ to men, and 

 become examples of all that is good and bene- 

 ficent in his Gospel. Be it ours to aid a pur- 

 pose so desirable, theirs to realize it in their 

 conduct and character." 



Realized, we believe, it will be in the world's 

 cheering progress, and that ere long, when MAR- 

 INERS shall be missionaries from shore to shore, 

 from the river to the ends of the earth ; when 

 die isles shall wait God's laws at their hands, 

 and continents, long wrapped in the darkness of 

 Paganism, shall be thrown wide open to mes- 

 sengers of salvation, borne and backed by those 

 that go down to the sea in ships, and do busi- 

 ness in the great icaters ! 



