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Protest of a Missionary. Proper Subject of Rebuke. 



but this he may not do, except at the risk of 

 losing his ship and being thrown out of employ- 

 ment, and he will therefore conclude that Sab- 

 bath whaling with him, at least, is a work of 

 necessity. 



Rev. Titus Coan, an honored missionary at 

 the Sandwich Islands, who has had much to do 

 practically with whalemen, says, with not less 

 truth than with a justifiable irony, that there 

 are some captains " who will consent to be very 

 pious and hold religious meetings on the Sab- 

 bath when there are no whales. Of course, they 

 always keep a man at * mast head,' on the ' look- 

 out' for the oil of joy to the whalemen, while 

 the rest look up for * an unction from the Holy 

 One ;' or, in other words, one man looks out for 

 worldly r , while the rest look up for heavenly 

 good. Now should it so happen that the prayer 

 of this MAST-HEAD MINISTER should be first grant- 

 ed, by raising a whale during divine service, and 

 should he, from his lofty pulpit, cry out, ' There 

 she blows !' then what a thrill of joy electrifies 

 all his hearers! How soon the lesser desire 

 yields to the greater ! How quick and how thrill- 

 ing the response from the quarter-deck, * WHERE 



AWAY ? LOWER THE BOATS ! BEAR AHAND, BOYS !' 



