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Made for Man as a Worker. Law of the Sabbath universal. 



thy daughter , thy man-servant, nor thy maid- 

 servant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that 

 is within thy gates. For in six days the Lord 

 made heaven and earth, nd all that in them 

 is, and rested the seventh day : wherefore the 

 Lord blessed the Sabbath day, and hallowed it. 



2. God has revealed no indulgence in favor 

 of Sabbath whaling, any more than to Sabbath- 

 breaking railroad companies, steamboat, canal, 

 or stage lines, or Sunday manufactories. Show 

 us a single Divine statute of limitation yield- 

 ing the privilege of Sabbath violation in but 

 one clear case, and we will yield the argument. 



3. The assertion, that if the Sabbath is not 

 improved for getting whales, the voyage will be 

 likely to prove a failure, is a mere assumption, 

 for prosperous voyages have been and may be 

 made, and ships filled, without a whale being 

 struck on the Lord's day. What has proved 

 true in one instance, other things being equal, 

 there is reason to believe would prove true in 

 all. 



4. The obligation of the Sabbath is universal, 

 and extend* to all men alike, on the sea and 

 land. The Sabbath was made for man univer- 

 sally, as a worker, under all circumstances. By 



