-Rev. Mr. Williams writes, Dec. 12, (6 With Dublin. respect to the cause of God among seamen in the port of Dublin, I have to inform you, that during the last month the attendance has been fluctuating, yet not discouraging. Our regular religious services are as follow: - Preaching three times on the Lord's day, service on Wednesday evening, and occasionally on Friday evenings.. I am not left without reason to hope, that the preaching of the Gospel to sailors is not in vain. Last Sabbath morning, after the service, a captain came forward, wishing me to converse with a young man, a sailor that was present, on the allimportant subject of salvation. To me this was encouraging: he seemed to be convinced of his sinful state by nature, and that he had lived too long in the service of sin and of Satan. His inquiry was, What must I do to be saved? The conversation was serious, and I hope profitable; and after directing him to the Lamb of God, the Word of God, and the Throne of Grace, we parted. I trust that there are many such cases, which the day alone will disclose to the glory of God! Poplar and Blackwall.-Rev. J. Upten reports, "It has long been the decided opinion of the friends of seamen, that no object was more desirable, in connection with efforts like those in which I am engaged, than the establishment of preaching on board vessels lying at Blackwall. I rejoice to say that an opening is at length made for two services in the week, except in cases of unavoidable disappointment. I have just received the following note from the friend who goes off to obtain the ships. ‘Dear Pastor, —I went off this morning to obtain a vessel, and have succeeded. The name of the ship is the William. There are now a vast number of ships in Blackwall Reach, where they are expected to remain some time. Yours sincerely, J. SAXBY.' the result of this new effort: Should it please God to bless ultimately exert a beneficial "Time alone can show my hopes are considerable. the word preached, it may influence on our afternoon service on Lord's days, and our operations generally. "At our last sailors' prayer meeting I gave a brief account of the operations of the Society. At the close of the service I had two applications for Loan Libraries, which I had great pleasure in attending to. (To be continued.) Friend at Sandwich, by Rev. H. A Shipowner of North Shields, Mr. Beeby, by Rev. J. Upton...... Donations. Collections. 3 17 0 4 11 3 1 5 9. 500 900 006 380 0 10 0 1 0 0 ......... Infants' Friends' Society......... 0 5 0 Collecting card, Sarah Tye, by Devonshire Square, Rev.T.Price's, Remington Mills, Esq. by G. Gull, John Deacon, Esq. by Rev. T. Collected by M Howard: J. Cook, Esq. T. Christy, Esq..... Mr. Burgess Mr. B. Smith ......... ..... ......... 10 10 0 5 () 0 1 0 0 0 10 0 3 17 0 OR SAILORS' MAGAZINE. NEW SERIES. FOR FEBRUARY, 1836. JOURNAL OF A PIOUS SAILOR, WHOSE CAPTAIN WAS A DRUNKARD. TEMPERANCE in sailors is acknowledged to be indispensably necessary on board ship, that they may faithfully discharge their responsible duties. Common sailors ought to be men of sobriety; but how much more so their superiors in office, and their commanders! These having a kind of authority over their crews while on board, the control of their daily course, the care of their health and life, and the charge of valuable property to an immense amount, far more absolutely than agents on land, ought to be most exemplary for their integrity, sobriety, and moral purity. Virtues of this class, it is manifest, do exist in a high. degree in many officers and commanders of the British merchant service; in some cases arising merely from the influence of motives derived from worldly considerations. But it is well known that those officers who fear and worship God, are far more remarkable for their integrity, sobriety, and moral purity; and this must necessarily be the case, on the simple admission of the truth and divinity of Christianity. Illustrations of the incalculable evils of intemperance and ungodliness in seamen, both officers and common men, and of the inestimable advantages inseparable from the heartfelt experience of true religion, if not necessary to demonstrate to a Christian community the necessity for institutions like the British and Foreign Sailors' Society, are indispensable as the means of exciting the religious friends of seamen to zeal and activity in promoting their spiritual welfare. On this latter account especially, the following extracts from the journal of the voyage of a young man, are presented to the readers of the PILOT. The VOL III. D journal has been communicated to the Editor by a merchant in the city of London, by whom the vessel was chartered: in a "On the 30th of June, 1834, I sailed from fine brig, for the bay of Honduras, under the command of Capt. S. I was given to understand that the ship was chartered not to have any spirituous liquors on board, only in case of necessity, which I felt very glad of: but when the captain called all hands on the quarter-deck to choose watches, I was pained and surprised to see him in a state of intoxication, and beginning to abuse us in using very awful language. He told us we might go on shore if we liked, as the pilot-boat was towing astern of the brig; and I fain would have left the ship, but something urged me to remain. I had a conviction that the Lord placed me where I was; so I gave myself right up into his hands, "looking unto Jesus." "We had on board as cargo some brandy and rum, which the captain had orders not to touch; and the owner of the ship told Capt. S. to behave kindly to the men, and if at any time any were out of the way, to bear with them: but our captain soon broke his orders by taking the rum and brandy, and making a complete beast of himself, and causing great confusion among the crew. “One afternoon while he was as drunk as it seemed possible for him to be, and one of the men was tarring and rattling the rigging down, on the starboard side of the ship, the captain came and found great fault, and took up a handspike to strike him; and it was a mercy for the man and for me too, that he did not strike, as we might then both have fallen overboard, for I was in the chains tarring the lanyards. While in a drunken fit he sent the same man up to take the studding-sail booms in, by himself; and the poor man strained himself so, that he was obliged to go to the hospital for six weeks. At another time, when about half drunk, he asked one of the boys to read him a temperance tract on the quarter-deck; but it really was quite shocking to hear how Capt. S. ridiculed every thing that was good: it was on the Lord's own day too. Very often he would have sail taken in in the day, and then make sail just as the dark was coming on; it was shameful to see how he tore that good ship about. Many times he would come among the sailors and bother them, till they cursed and swore dreadfully. One Sabbath morning I did indeed say, with the Psalmist, As the hart |