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Alex Bremner Catalina
1832-With The Authors Compliments.
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Sermon Preached at Trinity N.F. On the Sabbath before the
departure of the vessels for the seal fishery. By Revd. William
Bullock.
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“Let every Minister be careful to observe, and or lament in
reproving, those faults of his parishioners, of which the laws
cannot or do not “take cognizance”._ Bishop Jeremy Taylor.
My Dear Parishioners.
The Prevalence of Sabbath breaking by those who are engaged in
the Seal Fishery is generally known and among serious Christians
generally lamented; and it is with the hope of correcting this
besetting sin, that I publish, and present to you, the following
Sermon.
That there is an awful indifference to religion among the young
men of this neighbourhood, cannot be denied, and I am persuaded
that the one part source of this distinction is to be traced to
the evil communications which annually transpires in the voyage
to the Ice and it often happens that the young leave their homes
in comparative innocence to return the habitual and fearless
transgressors of God’s positive commands and the imprudent
scoffers at “everything that is pure and lovely and of “good
report” It is in this expedition, that tempted by the prospect
of gain, and strengthened by the first example of hardened
offenders, our youth, first learn to pollute the Lords day at
sea, and then fill up the measure of the coil, by bringing with
them the moral contagions to the shore; and everything that
comes under my own observations brings me to this conclusion
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