242 THE WHALE AND 



Zest after Rest. A Word to the Sabbath Keeper. 



ed of, but it replenished them with strength ; 

 they commenced the week's labor with renew- 

 ed zest, and this zest was in a measure kept 

 up by the reflection that the ensuing Sabbath 

 would be a day of rest. It was found, by com- 

 puting the whole route, and comparing the time 

 employed with that which had been devoted on 

 similar routes in this part of the world, that an 

 equal space had been gone over in less time 

 than it had ever been known to be performed 

 by loaded canoes or (as the fact is) by light 

 canoes before. And the whole expedition its 

 incidents and results has been of a character 

 furnishing strong reasons for uniting in ascrip- 

 tions of praise to that Eternal Power who hath 

 been our shield from the pestilence that walk- 

 eth in darkness, and from the destruction that 

 wasteth at noon day" 



We have become acquainted with the names 

 or persons of nine men belonging to the Church, 

 masters of whale ships, and but three of these 

 keep the Sabbath. Some of the reasons for 

 this desecration of the Lord's day by whale 

 ships, or the causes of it, we will endeavor to 

 give in another chapter ; and we close this with 

 a voice of good cheer to upright Sabbath-keep- 



