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What Sabbath Breakers think. What they do not think. 



Oil got on the Sabbath burns as well, sells 

 as well, and, they think, spends as well as oil 

 got lawfully on week days. Not to use the 

 Sabbath in their gainful business, they think, 

 would be losing one seventh part of their time, 

 neglecting one seventh of their chances, keep- 

 ing them one seventh longer out, consuming 

 one seventh more provisions, exhausting one 

 seventh more of patience and spirits, and per- 

 haps, in the end, leaving them with one seventh 

 less of oil than ships that use all days alike, and 

 one seventh less of every thing but a good con- 

 science and the favor of God. 



To balance these, we have only to offer, with- 

 out swelling the list, as might easily be done, 

 with other items, that keeping the Sabbath 

 would be likely to make whalers three sevenths 

 better and more respectable men, three sev- 

 enths more easy and peaceful in their minds, 

 and one seventh the longer lived than those who 

 persist in profaning God's holy day ; and it 

 would make owners at home all the better 

 Christians, or more likely subjects of the grace 

 of God here, and with less to answer for at the 

 great bar of judgment hereafter. 



At present it is said by many whaling cap- 



