PREFACE. Anticipating the approaching year, as auspicious to seamen, and eventful to the Society, the Directors have resolved on publishing an Improved Series of their " PILOT," as noticed in the present and in the last numbers: and while they purpose sparing no pains to render it additionally interesting to their readers, they trust that it will find a multiplication of its patrons; and thus, through the blessing of the Holy Spirit, render still more essential service to their great objects the honour of our national as represented to foreigners by our sailors,the regeneration and salvation of our mariners,—and chiefly, the glory of God our Saviour. character, "THE PILOT, OR SAILORS' MAGAZINE," professes to be purely Christian-orthodox and evangelical in its religious sentiments-its Editor, and the Directors of the Society, holding sacred the grand and saving principles of the Protestant Reformation-at the same time unsectarian, its pages excluding all reference to ecclesiastical peculiarities: while, therefore, it includes a record of the worthy efforts of all who labour to benefit seamen, and is adapted also, in its various contents, to be a family periodical, and being at the same time the only work of the kind published in the United Kingdom, it must have a powerful claim for support upon all classes, and upon all denominations of Christians in Great Britain. 66 The Editor offers his best thanks to his friends, and to his numerous correspondents, for their past favours, which he trusts will be renewed: and communications for the PILOT" are respectfully solicited from the friends of seamen, especially illustrations of the wonderful works of God, in relation to the sea and to rare marine productions, and still more, details of the progress of the Kingdom of Christ among mariners of all nations. London, November 23, 1837. CONTENTS. Admonitions on Spirituous Liquors, 262. American Chronicle, 17, 56, 92, 130, 165, 238, 267, 306, 346, 383. Anniversary of the British and Foreign Sailors' Society, 181. Appalling Miseries of a Sea Fight, 44, Appeal by the American Seamen's Friend Society, 306. of the late Rev. Rowland Hill, 49. Appointment of Mr. J. Welch, Thames Missionary, 134. Arctic Regions, return of Captain Back from the, 403. Arrival of the Whale Ship "Advice," 264. Astronomy studied by Seamen,' 121. Barclay, Mr., Foreign Agent for South Australia, 169. Bargemen and Boatmen on British Rivers, 217. Benefits of the Coast Guard Libraries, 18, 351. Captain's Report of a Ship's Library, 152. Bible and Guinea of Admiral Colpoys, 263. Blessings of Christianity, 334. Boston Seamen's Friend Society, 415. Britain's Glory in the Evangelization of her Seamen, 90. Captain Brenton's Testimony concerning Sailors, 164. Fawkner's Narrative, 295. Courageous Humanity of a Midshipman, 163.- Death of Rev. E. Stevens, 308. Designation of Mr. Barclay to South Australia, 242. Destructive Hurricanes in the West Indies, 339. Dishonest Captain, the, and South Sea Island Missionary, 376. Divine Providence favours Prayer, 304. Donations and Collections, 36, 71, 107, 143, 180, 215, 251, 287, Dying Soliloquy of a Neglecter of Religion, 263. German Sailors in London, 170. Gin-drinker's Liver, 50. Grant of Fifty Pounds to Cronstadt, 268. Twenty Pounds to Havre, 269. Helpers in the Sailors' Cause, 236. Home Missions extended to Seamen, 265. Home Missionary Society co-operating with the British & Foreign Maritime Calamities at Appledore, 21. Melancholy Shipwreck of the "Bristol," 14. Missionaries and Seamen united in benefiting the Heathen, labouring for Seamen in Foreign Ports, 385. Missionary Anecdotes, 258. Moderate Spirit Drinkers, 120. Monthly Meetings of the Agents, 24, 61, 102, 134, 172, 212, 243, Moral Condition of our Seamen in Foreign Ports, 385. Mortality and Piety in Greenwich Hospital, 82. Prospects of ditto, ditto, 1. Noble Conduct of a Fisherman to a Shipwrecked Crew, 53. North Devon Coast Auxiliary, 355. Ordination of a Seamen's Chaplain for Cronstadt, 239. Quarrels on Shipboard in Port, 303. Religion and Morals among British Boatmen and Bargemen, 218. Renewed Efforts among Fishermen at Hastings, 354. Report from the Seamen's Chaplain at the Sandwich Islands, 57. Sacred Songs for British Seamen, 127. "Safely in Port," 414. Sailing from Port on Sundays, 87. Sailor, the, at the Lord's Table, 111. in the Church, 109. Sailors make good Missionaries, 244. Missionaries, 54. Coadjutors of Missionaries, 8. Salutations from the American Ship "Oberlin," 96. in New York, 383. Grievances in the Royal Navy, 398, 400. Seamen waiting for God's Salvation, 55. Shipping and Navigation of Cronstadt, 56. Shipwreck of the brig Bywell, 407. Singing the praises of God at Sea, 305. South Australian School Society, 54. Speeches and Resolutions at the General Meeting of the British Ten Dollars from a Country Pastor, 309. Twenty Dollars from a Gentleman, 309. Testimony and Suggestions of a Bethel Captain, 37. |