What say you ?' Will you grant me
this favour ? ** The men stood for
a mgment quite silent. They stared
at the captain, and evidently did not
know what reply to make. One at
length said, in a low tone, ** I say,
we are taken aback ; ** and another,
** We're brought up all standing."
But the appeal was so reasonable,
and the manner of the captain so
prepossessing, that speedily a general
assent burst forth: "Ay, ay, sir!"
was uttered by every man. Three
cheers for the captain were given.
Profane swearing became unknown
on board. (Third Commandment.)
The Pleasant Foretaste.— A
godly young woman once said to a
friend, ** I know not how I could
have been sustained in the way to
heaven if it had not been for our
Sabbaths. You know that my father
has been afflicted for many years.
Since my girlhood he has been alto-
gether helpless. My mother was
taken to a better world. I was the
eldest of the children, and the chief
burden and responsibility necessarily
fell on me. I was obliged to work
and contrive all the day, and gene-
rally it was very long. Then, during
the night, it was only at intervals
that the father I so dearly love could
sleep. Notwithstanding all that
the doctors could give him, he spent
many hours ever^ day in dreadful
suffering. I grieved with him, but



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