New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1857-05-12

Market-Street Reformed Dutch Church Of this city,
addressed the audience, in reference TO Of the
needs OF the sailor at the present time. He began oy
saying that as he had an engagement to speak IN
another place that evening he would b. very bIiei
in his remarks He alluded TO the title Of the Society
= being Seamens Friend" He believed that no
class If the muDiiy were IN much need OF ehu
"a sailors The sailor contributes a. lnnch as any
other man in the community to the wealth oil the na
ton. Commerce builds our cities Most oil me luiu
rous adornmtIts Of Fifth avenue are conveyed acfo's
the ocean under tArpaulin hat.
There is not said he, woman VINO mas co,ne he.e
tonight under the stimulus of good cup oi 'ea 10
keen her awake but indebted for that cup OF tea 10
Jack Tar He could not speak IN his lew remarks,
Of the sublimity Of the Occan-that subject having
heen dsposed OF already former occasions by prede
ccssors on the platform He could not speak Of the
rollirg sea in It's poetry but Of the rolling seaman in
his prose One of the things that Jack most needs
is f'home'-a home particularly when he is
shore. He is in danger of landsharks" whenever he
comes into port.
Where one sailor is wrecked at sea ten are wrecked
on shore. Good men and women, who pray every
day for the sailor at ought to pray equally for the
sailor on shore. But he suffers cruelty often ship
board Officers not always such men a. they
should be. The captain who makes the quickest trip
from Canton to Sandy Hook is the man who is held
in most favor among the commercial men in this city;
whereas the premium should be given only to the
officer who while he brings in his ship in good time
also brings in his men in good condition. He hoped
that among other reforms undertaken for seamen the
pernicious system of advance wages" would be
abolished He hoped the Chamber of Commerce of
this city, who he believed were engaged in nvesti-
eating this subject would not lay it down until it
should be probed to the bottom.
The speaker referred to the Susceptibility of
to the influence Of the Gospel, and afte
relating instances in illustration, concluded
by commencing the cause of the sailor TO the
sympathies and prayers Of Christian and
women, and the Seamens Friend Society to their
charitable contributions. He gave some marine sta
tistcs, which he made the basis of telling com
ments. During the last year, the disasters resulting
in total wreck on the follows: Steamers,
ii; ships, IA; barks, 90; bngs 80; schOOners l60
slOops 3. Total vessels lost, 467; total value Of yes
sells and cargOes, frcHty-one millions of dOj0rs The
number of lives lost had been $50. How much, he
asked, Of that property, and how many Of those lives
would have been saved had the people of tins city and
country begun to do their duty to the twenty
years ago? For he argued, by far the greater pro-
portion of loss at from the incapacy of sea-
men, and this in turn comes not from their inherent in
efficiency, but from their corrupt morals and vicious
and degrading habits.
Mr. JOHE BYRsE, a sailor who had been converted
through the instrumentality of of the Societys
chaphns at the Sandwich Islands gavo Il narrative
of his conversion and religious experience.
He was followed by President STURTEvtsr of Hi
nois College, who made some brief remarks the
power Of the Gospel seamen and the efforts which,
in view of this fact should be put forth in their behalf
The anthem q" How lovely is Zion " was chantedby
the choir, and the congregation were dismissed after