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ADDRESS TO SEAMEN.
The following is the concluding part of Mr. Pay
son’s Address to the Portland Marine Bible So
ciety, an extract from which was given in our
last paper.
It may not be amiss to give a few hints
respecting the first part of your course.
If you examine your chart, you will find
put down, not far from the latitude in which
you now are, a most dangerous rock called,
the Rock of Intemperance, or Drunkard’s
Rock. This rock, on which there is a
high beacon l is almost white with the bones
of poor sailors, who have been cast awav
upon it. You must he careful to give this
rock a good birth, for there is a very strong
current setting towards it. If you once get
into that current, you will find it very diffi
cult getting out again; and will be almost
sura to strike and go to pieces. You will
often find a parcel of wreckers round this
rock, who will try to persuade you that it
is not dangerous, and that there is no cur
reot. But take care how you believe
them. Their only object is plunder.
Not far from this terrible rock, you will
find marked, a whirlpool, almost equally
dangerous, called the Whirlpool of Bad
Company. Indeed this whirlpool, often
thr.'.iws vessels on Drunkard’s Rock, as it
Inwries them round. It lies just outside the
Gulf of Perdition; and every thing which it
swallows up, is thrown into that gulf. It
is surrounded by several little eddies, which
often draw mariners into it, before they
know where they are. Keep a good look
out then for these edtlies, and steer wide of
this whirlpool; for it has swallowed up more
sailors than ever the sea did. In fact it is
a complete Hell Gate.
Besides this whirlpool amd rock, there
are several shoals laid down in your chart,
which I cannot now stay to describe. In
deed these seas are full of them, which
makes sailing here extremely dangerous.
If you would be sure to shun them all, and
to keep clear of the terrible gulf, already
motioned, you must immediately go about,
make a signal for a pilot, and steer for the
Straits of Repentance, which you will then
see right ahead. These straits, which are
very narrow, form the only passage out of
the dangerous seas you have been navigat
ing, into the great Pacifick Ocean, some
times called the Sale Sea, or Sea of Salva
tion, on the further shore of which lies
your port. It is not very pleasant passing
these straits; and therefore many naviga
tors have tried hard to find another passage.
Indeed, some, who pretend to be pilots,
will tell you there is another ; but they are
wrong; for the great Master Pilot himself
has declared, that every one who does not
pass the Straits of Repentance will certain
ly be lost.
As you pass these Straits, the spacious
Bay of Faith will begin to open, on the
right hand side of which you will see a
THE MISSIONARY.
high hill, called Mount Calvary. On the
top of this hill stands a Light House, in the
form of a cross; which, by night, is com
pletely illuminated from top to bottom and,
by day, sends up a pillar of smoke, like a
white cloud. It stands so high, that, unless
you deviate from the course laid down in
your chart, you will never lost sight of it
in any succeeding part ofyour voyage. At
the foot of this Light House, you will find
the pilot I have so often mentioned, waiting
for you. You must by all means receive
him on board; for without Him, neither
your own exertions, nor all the charts and
pilots in the world can preserve you from
fatal shipwreck.
A9 you enter the Bay ofFailh, you will
see, far ahead, like a white cloud in the
horizon, tbe high lands of Hopp, which lie
hard by your port. These lands are so
high, that when the air is clear, you will
have them constantly in sight during the
remainder of your voyage ; and while they
are in sight, you may be sure of always
finding good anchoring ground, and of safe- -
ly riding out every storm. Even in thick
weather you may easily discern them by
the help of a glass, with which your Pilot
will furuish you, and which he will teach
you how to use. One Caution is however
necessary. There is a fog bank, called
Flyaway, lying over the shoals of Delusion,
wide ofi from your true course on the lar
board hand, which mariners often mistake
for the high lands of Hope. You must te
wire of making this mistake : for should
you steer for this bank, you will soon find
yourselves aground.
1 might proceed to describe the remain
der of your course, but it is needless ; for
you will find it all in your chart, the Bible.
With this chart, the Society which invited
you here this evening, are ready to furnish
every destitute seaman ; and they do it on
purpose that your voyage may’ be prosper
ous, and its termination happy. And now,
shipmates, let me ask you one question
more. Should a ship’s crew, bound on a
long and dangerous voyage, refuse to pro
vide themselves with either quadrant, chart
or compass ; —or, being furnished by their
owner with these articles, should stow them
away in the hold, and never use them, nev
er mind their helm, keep no look out, pay
no’ regard to their pilot’s directions, hut
spend their tiine in drinking and carousing;
have you any doubt they would he lost,
before their voyage was half over? And
when you heard that they were lost, would
you not say,—lt is just as 1 expected ; but
they have no one to blame but themselves.
Just so, my dear shipmates, if yoiTrefuse
to receive the Bible, the book which your
“Maker and Owner has given, to assist in
shaping your course ; —or if you lay this
hook aside in your chests, and never study
it; or, if you study it, and do not shape
your course by it, nor pay any regard to
the directions of Jesus Christ, your com
mander and pilot; but make it you only
object, to live an easy, careiess, merry
life; be assured that you will make ship
wreck of your souls, and founder in that
gulf which has no bottom; and while you
feel you are lost, lost, lost forever, you
will also feel, that you have no one to
blame for it but yourselves. You cannot
blame God. your Creator and owner ; lor
he has kindly given you his only Son, to be
your pilot, and his book to be your chart.
You cannot blame your fellow creatures ;
for by the hands of this Society, they now
offer you this book “without money and
without price.” You cannot blame the
speaker.; for he has now told you what will
be the consequence of neglecting this book.
O, then, be persuaded to receive it, to study
it, and to shape your course by it. Become
yourselves members of this Bible Society,
and persuade your comrades to do the
same. Wherever you see the Bethel flag
hoisted, rally round it. As often as you
have an opportunity, visit the house of God
on the Sabbath, to hear what Jesus Christ
has done for poor seamen. If you see a
brother sailor becalmed by the wav, or
steering another course, lend him a hand,
and take him with }'ou. Whenever you
are keeping your evening watch on deck,
look up, and see the God of whom you
have now heard—the God whose name, I
fear, some of you “take in vain,” throned
in awful silence, and darkness, and majesty,
on the'sky, crowned with a ten
thousand stars, holding the winds and thun
derbolts in his hand, and setting one foot on
the sea, and the other on the land, while
both land and sea obey his word, and trem
ble at his nod. This, shipmates, is the
God, under whom, we wish you to enlist,
and to whom, we wish you to pray. This
is the God, who now offers to he the poor
sailor’s friend; and, who, in all your voy
ages, can carry you out in safety, and bring
you home in peace. This too, is the God,
whom we shall all one day see coming in
the clouds of heaven, with power and great
glory, to judge the world.—Then, at his
command, the earth and the sea shall give
up all, who had been buried in the former,
or sunk in the latter, and they shall stand
together before God to be rewarded accord
ing to their works. O then, seamen, lands
men, whoever you are that hear, prepare,
prepare for this great day. Yes prepare,
ye accountable creatures, prepare to meet
your God; for He has said, —Behold I
GO YE INTO ALL THE WORLD AND PREACH THE GOSPEL TO EVERY CREATURE.— Jesus Christ.
MOUNT ZION (HANCOCK Ca GA!) MONDAY, JANUARY 21, 1822.
come, 1 come near to judgment! And
hath he said it, and shall He not doit?
Hath He spoken, and shall he not make it
good ? Yes, when His appointed hour shall
arrive, a mighty angel will lift his hand to
Heaven, and swear by Him who liveth for
ever and ever, that there shall be time no
longer. Then oar world, impetuously
driven by the last tempest, will strike, and
be dashed in pieces on the shores of eterni
ty. Hark ! what a crash was there! One
groan of unutterable anguish, one loud
shriek of consternation and despair is heard,
and all is still. Not a fragment of the
wreck remains to which the struggling
wretches might cling for support; but
down, down, down they sink, whelmed deep
beneath the billows of almighty wrath.
But see ! something appears at a distance
mounting above the waves, and nearing the
shore. It is the Ark of Salvation! it is the
Life-Boat of Heaven ! it has weathered the
last storm; it enters the harbour triumph
antly. Heaven resounds with the accla
mations of its grateful happy crew ! Among
them may you all shipmates, be found,
tyfay the members of this Society, believing
and obeying, as well as distributing the
scriptures, save both themselves, and the
objects of their care. And may every per
ishing immortal in (his assembly now, while
the Ark is open, while th 6 Life-Boat wait 9,
while the rope of mercy is thrown within
►his grasp, seize it, and make eternal life his
own.
— *ozo:v&:ozd
STATE OF FEMALE SOCIETY IN
EGYPT.
[From Mr. Belzoni's Jlctfinmt of the women
of Egypt, Nubia, and .Syria.]
“ Having heard so much of Turks and
Arabs, 1 took the opportunity', while in
Egypt, to observe the manners of the wo
men in that country. On our arrival at As
souan, I went to visit the women of the Aga
of that place. 1 was met at the door by
himself, his wife, his sister, her husband,
two young children, three old Comen, ugli
er than Macbeth’s witches, and an old negro
slave. I entered into a small yard, and a
deal chair was brought me. The Aga went
out, and the women then stood round me,
while the husband of Aga’s sister made cof
fee and prepared a pipe, which he present
ed me, not allowing the women to touch it.
He durst not trust them with any thing, as
he knew of their monkeyish tricks when
ever he turned his back. He seemed to
pride himself much on his great knowledge
of the world, by correcting the rough curi
osity of the women, when they attempted
to examine my dress too rudely.
“ 1 made a sign I wished them to sit
down, and in particular that the wife should
take coffee with me, but he treated them
very harshly, made me understand that
coffee would be too good for them and
said water wa9 good enough ; at the time
he held the coffee-pot, pressing me to drink
more : on my refusing, he locked it up in
a small room, that the women might not
drink it. By this time I had been so much
among the women in Egypt, and compelled
to smoke, that 1 could easily finish my half
pipe. After having smoked for some time
I laid it down ; one of the women took it
up and began to smoke: on seeing such a
horrid profanation, he took it from her with
violence, and was going to beat her, which
I naturally prevented. He filled it again,
and ollered it (o me; but, as I did not wish
to smoke any more, he went and carefully
locked it up, making me understand when
1 wanted it, it was at my service. I must
confess I felt hurt to see the distinction he
made, but afterwards 1 saw the necessity of
so doing.
“ They always behaved to me not only
with respect, but humility ; so that their
roughness seems not directed towards wo
men in general; and I have often heard
them remark to me, that if they treated
these women as I was treated, they would
become quite unruly.
“ A short time afterwards the Aga came
in, and inquiring if they had served me
with coffee and a pipe, he went to his treas
ury and brought out some dirty bruised
grapes, as a great treat, which he present
ed me,-the poor women looking with wish
ful eyes towards the basket. In the im
pulse of the moment I took it, and offered
them to his wife, and then to the re9t, who
all refused ; and, though they did not dare
1° take any themselves, yet they pressed
me to cat, and seemed astonished when, on
account of their dirt, I only took one bunch.
I kept the grapes in my hands for some
time, before I could muster resolution to
eat them. 1 began, at last, one by one,
trying to wipe them in an handkerchief
without their perceiving it; but I was mis
taken, for their eyes wore fixed upon roe
very closely. An old woman saw what I
was doing, and ran and fetched me u bur
dock of water. I did not ask for water at
first, as I was afraid to do any thing lo of
fend them.
“ 1 now gave my little present of beads
and a looking glass, which contained a draw
er. The beads pleased them, and the
glass, being the largest they had ever seen,
and made to stand by itself, was to them a
matter of astonishment. To describe the
tricks the women played with it, tearing it
from each other, and setting it in any way
hut the right, would be thought a Carina-
ture. lat first attempted to show them the
right way to use it, but there is no other
method with those women than letting
them have their own way : and l believe
it is pretty well so in more civilized coun
tries, or lam much mistaken. When the
wife perceived they had got the glass out of
its frame, she put it in a little room, and
locked it up with the beads.
“On the man coming in, they began to
prepare for cooking the dinner for th?Aga,
which consisted of a dish of Bamia, boiled
in mutton broth, poured over bread, with a
little mutton, and some minced meat, mixed
up with rice into balls: what other ingre
dients might be mixed shall by me be home
less : the cleanliness of this preparation I
have not eloquence to describe ; the hor
rour I felt at the idea that 1 should be ob
liged to eat of it, was more than any Eng
lish stomach could reconcile at that mo
ment. They brought me all the dishes
before they took them out to (he Aga, and
Mr. B. was to dine with him. The first
was the bamia, which I refused, but I took
a piece of the boiled mutton, as being-the
cleanest, with some bread: that would not
do, the wife took some of the minced meat
and rice in her hands, and insisted on my
eating it, making me understand it was (he
best. At last all was carried to the Aga.
I was then served with the customary coffee
and pipe. The house, or rather stable,
consisted of four walls, which had the sky
lor its Ceiling, inclosing two small rooms,
one in which the Aga used to keep the
treasure locked, such as coffee, coffee-cups,
tobacco, &c.; the other was the wife’s, and
contained all their great wardrobe, besides
bread, onions, flour, dhourra, oil, and many
other things of the kind. The furniture
consisted of water jars, sieves to clean the
corn and sift the flour, a few earthen pots
to cook in, some wooden bowls to eat out
of, an oven, and some burdock for cooling
water, a small coffee-pot, and old mats to
lie on. I took my leave, giving the chil
dren and w'omen a small present of money,
promising to call and see them on my re
turn. Next morning another wife of the
Aga sent me word that she should be glad
to see me. I felt little inclination to go,
but, not wishing to make any distinction
between them, I went, and found to my
surprise, a very pretty youog woman.
She lived next door to the other, who got
upon the wall to see what passed between
us. She had no coffee to give me, but in
stead presented me with some dates and
dhourra in grain. She seemed much afraid
of the other wife. Though pretty in my
eyes, she was not thought sq by her own
people; the other, though old, was consid
ered the greatest beauty in Assouan, on
account of her beit:*, so extremely fat.—
Their hair was plaited after the Nubian
custom, adorned with a few gold ornaments,
with a plenty of stinking raw fat, and cer
tain bark of a tree beat in powder to make
it black, besides giving a horrid perfume,
which they consider as a great improve
ment to their charms; it is not the same
powder they use in blacking the eye-brow 9
and eye-lids. I made her a present of some
beads, which she tried to hide, and I wish
ed her farewell.”
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JEWS EAGER FOR THE SCRIPTURES.
From the Correspondence of the London Jews
Society.
The following letter was addressed to Mr.
Eisner, by Mr. H. Gorlz, at Komrau, Dec.
11, 1820.
“ Os the Hebrew New Testament I have
only four copies left. The rest with (he
other small publications were immediately
disposed of, when the Jews had been in
formed of the arrival of Hebrew books.—
On the first of July, seven Jews met in my
house. They asked all of them for He
brew books, especially the prophets. 1
asked them whether r.i.y of them could
read and understand Hebrew ? They all an
swered in the affirmative. .And when I
had shown them the 53d of Isaiah, and
some other passages, 1 found that they not
only could read, but also understand them
as they explained them without difficulty in
the German language. While one of them
read it aloud, the others listened with great
attention. After a while one of them took
out of his pocket the Hebrew New Testa
ment, which he already possessed,and said,
“ It is curious that the prophets have so
clearly foretold the facts related in the New
Testament of Jesus and he added, “ I
for one must confess, that when I read the
prophets, and then the New Testament,
nothing can be more clear than that Jesus
is the true and real Messiah.” The other
Jews looked upon the Christians who were
present with an eye of veneration, and then
exclaimed, one after the other, *• But what
shall we do ? We cannot help being Jews.”
I replied, So you now. But whenever
you begin to believe in Jesus and to re
ceive him as your Redeemer, you ceae to
be Jews, and enter into the Christian
church. 1 advised them to pray to God,
that he would give them a true spirit of re
pentance for their sins, and enlighten
ed understandings, ttf read the Scripture
which testifies of then he would
reveal himself to them. They were
much surprized anil affected. 1 then
showed them some small publications, and
Price, $ J 3 ’ so P r - R,m - OT i l
now they all surrounded me closely, and
began eagerly to ask, “ Pray give one to
me, one to me also !” and they had scarce
ly received them before they began to read
them, and with the Tracts in their bands,
and reading, they left my house, after hav
ing expressed their cordial gratitude.— *
These Jews were from , about ten
German miles (fifty English miles) from
here. On the sth of July’ two Jews came
to me from , seven German (35 Eng
lish miles) from here to tell me, that they
heard from other Jews that I had Hebrew
books to sell, which they wished to see. I
showed them the New Testament; after
having looked into it they said, “ that we
have already;” and opening a bag, they
took out a copy of it, whose outward ap
pearance showed that it had not laid there
idle, but been frequently read. They now
asked for the prophets, aod were much re
joiced when 1 presented’ them a copy of
them. Upon their question as to the price
I replied, they might pay for the book ac
cording lo the value in which they held it.
They said, “ The value is high, for it is an
important book, but we are poor ; yet we
will not have it for nolhi%,” and paid six
teen groschen (one crown and a half) for it.
1 asked them now, what is the. state of your
nation ? Is there among your people an
earnest desire after the redemption of Isra
el, or are you all in a state of indifference
about it ? They replied, “ No : we are riot
indifferent ; there is a great emotion in our
town also. The New Testament is read in
many families, and a doubt begins to become
more and more prevailing, whether Jesus of
Nazareth is not the Messiah ; and many who
are convinced of it, are only kept back by the
fear of men,from openly comingforward.” —
But we really believe that if our rabbins
were convinced of the truth of the New
Testament, and would confess Jesus to be
the Messiah, of one hundred Jewish families
who live in the town, not ten would remain
Jews ; all would gladly receive Jesus.—
They appeared to be very concerned that
their rabbins were 90 hostile, and that they
dared not open their minds to them. “We
do not knew,” added they, “ what will hap
pen. A general apprehension has gone
abroad of something new ; and thera is none
who will tell us what it is. Our learned
men tell us, the time cannot be distant,
when the Jews will be relieved. But in
wbat way ? that is a question to which they
have no answer.l advised them to
pray to God for the light of saving truth,
and so they went away.”
HEATHENISM.
Extract of a Sermon preached before a Mis
sionary Society at Culcutta , last year by
Rev. Thomas Robertson.
Our friends at home may he deluded
with flattering tales of Heathen virtue
and happiness ; but you cannot be de
ceived. You know that a people with
out Christ is in a state of deplorable wretch
edness ; not only from what you read iu the
word of God, but from what you witness
every day. To say that they are poor, or
that they are starving for the bread that
perishetb, would, with much reason, ex
cite your compassion : with what feelings
then ought you to view their spiritual pov
erty and wretchedness ! They are without
God, without Christ, and without hope in
the world. Unenlightened by the word of
God, they are exposed to every species of
imposition and delusion, by which life is
rendered a bur Jen in this world; while a
total unfitness of soul seems to darken our
hope with respect to the next.
Idolatry is truly a monster deserving un
qualified reprobation : her garments are
rolled in blood : she is supported by hy
pocrisy on the one hand, and by ignorance
on the other; she is mlide a subservient
slave to rapacious wickedness : and has
been a greater source- of calamity to the
; human race, than all the wars which am
bition ever waged. Under the influence of
a miserable delusion, thousands become
their own tormenters ; and think to obtain
fellowship with God by rendering them
selves unfit for communion with men.—
Humanity grows pale at the cruelties which
superstition inflicts on her votaries, or turns
away with disgust from the vices which fol
low in her train.
In attempting to convey the Gospel to
India, we propose, not only the temporal
but eternal interests of more than Seventy
Millions of people. We to rescue
miserable men from the delusion of sacri?
licing their comfort and their lives to tlii
cupidity and falsehood of a people, who tri
umph in the ruin and degradation of their
fellow men. We would rescue the widow
from the horning pile, on which the living
and the dead are consumed together ; we
would awaken the sympathies of nature,
and give to mao an interest in the happi
ness of man.
Gaming unites all the vices of avarice,
besides loss of lime—loss of health,—loss of
fortune—loss of friends—loss of temper*—
ruin of family—and often loss of life itself.
— Dr. Franklin.
The city or country thrives best where
virtue it most esteemed and practised, and
virtuous men rewarded by publick confi*
<!ence. Italian Provtrb.