nd _deadly
disease_--Oh! how will you endure the keen remorse and fearful looking
for of judgment, which may ere long overtake you? When the impartial
Judge shall appear, and your eyes shall meet his eye, what agonies must
rend your souls!

But some of you have the vows of God upon you. To such I would say, Be
entreated to look at the case as it is. As ye have gone forth on voyages
of just and honorable traffic, and on voyages of discovery, have you
manifested in all the heathen ports where you touched, that to make
known the Saviour was the great and absorbing desire of your hearts?
Alas! are there not some among you who, either as owners, masters or
agents, are connected with ships that sail from port on the Sabbath, or
do other unnecessary work on that day, and who thereby teach the
heathen, wherever those ships go, to disobey God when their gain or
convenience require it? Are there not also some among you, who, in one
way or another, are connected with ships whose outfits are wholly or in
part, beads, trinkets, guns, powder, rum and opium? and who thereby
teach the heathen injustice, cheating, drunkenness, lewdness, and
recklessness of life? Why is it that ye bear the name of the peaceful
disciples of the benevolent Jesus, whilst ye are concerned in scattering
among the heathen "fire-brands, arrows and death"--in teaching them
every species of iniquity, and in rearing a wall of prejudice strong and
high to the progress of the Gospel?

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But most of my readers stand pure from all this crime; and of such I
simply inquire, with deep concern and affectionate earnestness, Why,
dear brethren, have ye not obeyed the Saviour's last command? Why have
ye not made known the Gospel of Christ to every creature? Each one of
you has doubtless some excuse at hand, or he could not escape the
goadings of conscience. Let us then, in the spirit of candor and
honesty, look at some EXCUSES.

Perhaps some one may be inclined to say, "The work enjoined by the
Saviour's last command is a very great work, and there has not been
time enough to perform it."

True, I reply, the work is great; but how does it appear that there has
not been sufficient time to accomplish it? _Not sufficient time!_ What
has been accomplished in the pursuit of wealth and honor during the same
period of time? What has been done at home in railroads, canals,
steamboats, manufactures, and in other departments of enterprise