xii CONTENTS. 



CHAPTER XVI. 



A PLEA IN BEHALF OF THE SABBATH FOR WHALEMEN. 



The two Buttresses of Sabbath Whaling Owners' Greediness 

 of Gain Lucre Stronger than Law Testimony of an Amer- 

 ican Foreign Missionary Silence of the Clergy in Whaling 

 Ports Inconsistency of Religious Revivals sending forth 

 Sabbath-breaking Converts Christianity giving Shelter to, 

 and getting a Name from Sin The Puritan's Praises oftener 

 heard than the Puritan's Morals exemplified Supposed 

 Remonstrance of a Delegation of Pilgrims Sabbath-keep- 

 ing Experience of Captain Scoresby Expostulation with 

 Owners, Ship-masters, Seamen, and Others A good Time 

 coming Page 244 



CHAPTER XVII. 



NEARING HOME AND ANALOGIES FROM THE SEA. 



Hopes and Fears on coming Home after being long away 

 Thickening Dangers at the Close of a Voyage Pilgrim Land 

 Light-house The last Sermon on Shipboard Evening 

 Prayer-meeting Pearl-finding Lesson from a Captain in 

 Sounding Spiritual Analogies Fruits of the Voyage. 265 



CHAPTER XVIII. 



KNITTING UP THE LESSONS OF THE VOYAGE AT ITS CLOSE. 



Wrecks met with in the Gulf Stream like the Wrecks of old 

 Opinions Lesson learned from the Ship's Behavior in a 

 Gale Illustration of Faith from the Experience of a young 

 Ship-master Promises of God's Word like the Mariner's 

 Life-lines Analogy between the Albatross on a Ship's Deck 

 and the Christian in Trial Magnetism and Workings of 

 Faith Illustrated by the Oscillations of the Mariner's Needle 

 Instruction from taking a Pilot Painful Intelligence of 

 the Doings of Death Tribute to a departed Brother.. 276 



