A religious tract from 1846 by Titus Coan, a missionary in Hilo, Hawaii. Addressed to sailors, especially whalers, it argues for their moral, intellectual and spiritual welfare and the observance of the Sabbath. A window into nineteenth-century missionary outreach to seafarers.
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Opening of the book
THE SAILOR’S SABBATH;
OR
A WORD FROM A FRIEND TO SEAMEN.
BY REV. TITUS COAN,
MISSIONARY AT HILO, HAWAIIAN ISLANDS.
Honolulu, Oahu:
PUBLISHED BY THE HAWAIIAN TRACT SOCIETY
1846.
THE SAILOR’S SABBATH.
It is a bright feature of the present age, that truth, philanthropy and love, are extending their influences to all classes of men. Among the many objects of benevolent interest the seaman is not forgotten. His temporal and eternal wants have found a place in the hearts of the good. An earnest desire is enkindled in the souls of Christians, to promote the happiness of his whole being—physical, civil, social, intellectual and moral.
This is true of those who ride upon the mountain billow, and brave the loud tempest of mid-ocean; of those who plow the bosom of inland seas, or thread the sinuous coast; and also of those who glide
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