Morning herald., 1839-05-07

adjournment; but by the Seamen's Friend Society.
large number Of ladies collected round the door of the
Third Free Church, however, and expressed great
desire to hear what reformation had been effected
amongst fra beautiful feeble false, and levely wo
man, during the past year. As no one appeared upon
the Of action, very beautiful girl exclaimed
81 thought so, mamma; am glad of it | thought
there would be nothing to meet about; the iact Is
that Mr.. Bennett, with the Herald has effected such
a moral reform in the female world, that there are
no bad females left for the Society to reform. She
was mistaken, however; for the meeting takes place
this afternoon and will be rich in the extreme we
a much mistaken.
In the evening the Tabe ernacle was crowded the
anniversary Of the Seamen's Friend Society. 1t was
curious affair. great number of very beautiful
women were there, to hear of the saer and his sor-
rows, and to contribute to benefit him. A woman
loves a sailor;
She will sit and weep Wi at sailor suffers"
and therefore il is no wonder that they crowded TO
hear of the plans concocted for his welfare The
proceedings of a curious character there was
prayer, and singing, and laughing, and crying, and
speeches, and folly, and sense, and reports, and
resolutions, and nonsense, doNooSy, and several
other ologes, and ogling, and courting, and coquet
ting, and kissing, and collection of money, and
the whole wound up with blessing. II was fun
nv affair a strange mixture of pety, and roguery,
and worldly shrewdness, and stupidity and common
sense, and fanaticism.
DIR. Lucky said that sailors our represe ta-
tves all the world and were great deal better
men than many Of our representatives in Congress
They did not kill another in duels as Graves
killed Cilley; they did not get intoxicated daily,
some Congress men did, nor did they frequently
commit adultery for they had not the chance. Bad
as sailors are, they better than many Of our
presentatyes at home; neverthelessas people abroad
Judged of this nation by its sailors, II was necessary
to make Il EN- coed men. Unfortunately, now, when
sailors land in places abroad, they drink liquor
and run after all the young women they see; hence
foreigners judge that we do the same at home We
break sailors Of this Pernieious habit and thus
undeceive people abroad. An American ship
touches at island in the South Seas the Ame-
rican sailors go ashore the natives know that
America is Christian nation that the Ameri-
cans are Christians therefore they consider
the sailors good christians, and watch their conduct
The first thing they see them do, is TO seduce all
their young women, and then their wives; and hence
they Judge that of the distinguishing character
istics of the Christian religion to seduce all young
women and to run off with other peoples wives
and example goes farther than precept, it very
little take the Bible to that island afterwards
About POO years ago, party OF English sailors land
ed az japan, and carried in this way; they sedu
ced q number of young womea, and carried some off
with them. The Japanese never would let a Chris
tian land afterwards; and when the Dutch there
they declared they were not Christians. The Sea-
mems Friend Society will correct this evil by maxi
the sailors chaste and yirtuous before they leave
home
The Rev. DR.. Cutter said that we could not ex-
psct sailors to be better ualess did more for them
IL much could do to keep lands
from liquor and young girls, and vice of all kinds by
constant preaching; and how could we keep sailors
1 from similar sins, to whom preached! A
sailor creature Of impulse and feeling, and
would sooner do right than wrong any time, il he
was only told how to go TO work But unfortunately,
directly they get on shore, they fall into the hands
Of grogshop keepers and bad young women, and no
parson will go near TO get them away, for fear
Of contamination, and they 80 down to destruction.
, If the sailor on board the Mexico who hove the
| saved; il the pirates OF the Braganza had been
Christians they would not have cut the throats oi
their officers at sea, and cut their own throats on
shore. We wsuld net trust money to go hence Ia
Boston with drunken or immoral man; would
not trust beautiful young womaR five minutes with
an impious Character-and yet we trust millions oi
specie, and hundreds OF lovely girls Tor days and
nights and weeks together with wicked and reckless
sailors.
Let us therefore hoist the mainmast of salvation,
the foremast of temperance the mixenmast Of virgin
purity, and the glib boom OF chastity and all these
evils will be corrected provided enough money 10
collected to pay the expenses OF the shrouds and
stays.
The Rev. Mr.. Spauldisg, from the Sandwich Is
lands, said that formerly the sailors of whale ships
brought very bad books there for the natives read
such as Fanny Hill, Harriet Wilson, and so on but
that latterly they brought bibles The change was
wonderful. Formerly the young King OF the Sand
wich Islands the greatest drunkard at Ouahoau,
but at last he could not find respectable place to
/ hide his bottle so he threw it away, and passed a
law to prohibit drinking and adultery and now il
asy from usetts to carry fifteen gal
Ions Of to the Sandwich Islands, he would be
fined 500, and for larger quantity in proportion
The Rev. Joel Parker said he wished he had key
90 through streets and unlock the treasures
commerce drought by sailers) now in importing
houses; if he had he wosld get enough to make the
Society rich, like city set hill. But he had a
better thng-the key Of truth-te unlock the benev-
oent hearts Of the press, and to command the pens
Of ready writers TO support the sailors; and without
the joint aid OF the press and Of prayer all would fall
10 the ground; and with the prayer and the press
| everything could be done. lie would put no KEYS
! where there were no key-holes; he would use no
force but he would jsst touch the sympathes Of the
ladies and they would fly open. The sea is a won.
derful places we don't plough it enough: il 10 richer
than the EARTH and il were catch more n and
have better sailors and fisherman, we could live
cheaper and should not have to complain Of the high
prize Of butchers meat. The sea was more won.
derful than the world when God made the world
he made thre, parts and part land the
sailors were more important than landsmen. In
short, we shall never know the worth of sailors or
the value Of the sea, until the millenium comes A
sailor is nidel; sailor is sectaran-he is too
wise TO belong either to the Baptists, or Pres
byterans, or Methodists, or Quakers, or Uni
tarians, or Episcspalians, or any sect, in short
he belongs TO his wife, his ship, his captain his
God, and he is Christian. We must have a large
sailor clearinghouse in New York into which no
liquor nor girls can enter In New Orleans, along the
Levee the grog shops ill space three miles along;
there is thus, battery Of hell in front Of the city
proper three miles long with mile spare at each
end to flank the sides with. And in this city the