The Northern star, and farmers' and mechanics' advocate. [volume] (Warren, R.I.) 1830-1834, 1832-07-07
,sEAMEN's FRIEND SOCIETY,

SEAMEN'S FRIEND SOCIETY,
Ma. RAHpxrL--In consequeSpe of II
anweleeme Intelligence of the existeuc
: q the Cholera a NswY York, and the sud
den call for a meeting 10 act upon tha
subject, on the evening sppointsd Cor ,th
n organization ofa Seamen's Friend Socie
J Ity, 81 fbh town, the meeting for the las
ter object was postponed or adjourned :,
meet on the evening Of tho i7th. Of thi,
month. ~ q ~
Il is hoped that this delay will not be
prodaH<ive Of any injury to the seamens
cause. i is believed ,.hat it will not II
those who fselsinterested ip and well dis
posed TO the object, will use their exer-
onsia the mean time to promote it. Sure
" N.may be expected, that those who be-
l'eve that "the abundance Of the sen
shall be converted" and that God works
bylmeans,will feel il to be their duty to
Join in the aid ofihe temporal and spirit
ual Improvement ofa.slass .of men, who
have been very much annoyed, abused
and preyed upon by various classes of peo
pie uponthe land, SO that their voyages
upon a. .tempestuaus ocean may be said to
have been to them a peaceful and pleasant
calm in comparison to their short visits
even upon our shores, where morality,
religion and the rights of men have been
better regarded and ,u9derstood, than ip
any other part Of the world and in all
the benovlent exertions made by the Phi
'lanthropist, the Moralist and the Christ
ian, the poor sailor, until recently, was
considered as.beyond the reach of their
hsnevolent operations; but thanks be to
God that the prophecies and promises, re-
corded in his holy word, respecting those
/" that goaown to the seain ships that do
business upon the great waters," have at
length attracted the attentions Of some OIL
his people, and they have been constrain-
ed to lift up'their eyes and hearts to God,
and to stretch out their arms to the aid ofI
this interesting but wronged and neglect
cd class of our fellow beings, and to en-
deavor to put stop to their wrongs and |
10 rescue them 'from'that moral degreda-
ton & debasement which natured sys-
tenn of plunder and injustice practiced up
on them, together with. their own natural
depravity, has plunged them into-and !
which unhallowed custom and the apathy
Of a christian world have SO long quietly
suffered to exist : But it is.cheering to re-
mark, that the little exertion already made
has been abundantly blessed, and it evil
IDENTIFY shews that tits only necessary for
hose engaged in this great work, the ref
ormatiOn ofseamea, <ospersevere with
steady and energetic effort to make this
numerous and very useful class ..of people
row SO improvidcnt, ignorant, degraded
and depravcd, become as industrious and
frugal, as Intelligent and respectable, and
as moral andsreligious, as any class that
our country or the world affords. Let no
one think that what he bestows for their
temporal, moralI and religious improve
nent will be thrown away or lost to him
'elf, for God has said cast thy bread
upon the waters /; for thou shalt find it af.
Ter many days.; promise, perhaps, made
n particular reference to this very age
md object,-certainiy it will peculiarly
'pply to them.
Let not the people in small -sea-ports
hink that.i is not incumbent upon them
o take an active patt in the reformation
If seamen, because they have but few a
nong them-nor let the country villages
Ind towns imagine, thut they have no in
crest in the welfare Of seamen, because
hey appear to have mono among them
They cannot tlAak SO ifthey will only re-
lcct, but for moment, that the great
,ody Of seamen 60 from them !; and they
will find That whatever they do in aid Of
he seamen's cause, they will con'.;.. .;'..,ute