252 THE WHALE AND 



How she deals with Parasites, Warts, and Carbuncles. 



to give herself epithets from the heresies and 

 misdeeds that have so struck their roots into 

 her bark as to be nourished by her juices. 



Rather let it be our business to pull off the 

 unnatural growth, or purge it with the physic 

 of truth till it dies and drops away of itself, 

 than to derive epithets to Christianity from 

 slave-holders or Sabbath breakers, or any other 

 class of sinners that contrive to shelter them- 

 selves under its lea. It is the duty especially 

 of ministers in the ports where whalers are fit- 

 ted out, to bring the law of God to bear upon 

 this form of Sabbath breaking ; to apply it point- 

 edly and plainly to this sin, and to preach and 

 pray against it till it shall cease to be allowed 

 by owners in their congregations, or committed 

 by persons going forth from their communi- 

 ties. 



Let them, as the constituted expounders of 

 tne law of God, and the guardians of public 

 morals and religion, boldly attack this sin, and 

 show its contrariety to the Divine law and the 

 Gospel of Christ. Let ministerial associations 

 and societies, formed to promote the better ob- 

 servance of the Lord's day, pass resolutions ex- 

 pressing their sense of this sin. Let fathers, 



