It is true, there are religious captains, officers, and seamen; but what we earnestly desire is, that the number may be increased a thousand fold. Under the benign influence of the spirit of religion and the fear of God, neither Sabbath breaking, nor profane language, nor vice, nor disorder, nor cruelty, nor mutiny would find a place on shipboard. "Thus officered, manned, and conducted, does any man who believes there is a God, who rules the winds and waves and the monsters of the deep, doubt the success of such a ship?" By no means. There is another instrumentality fitted to promote the religious interests of seamen, which we would not fail to mention, and that is, the _concert of prayer_. We are taught to "pray for all men;" therefore seamen may be included in the devout supplications of the people of God --not only that they may be mercifully shielded in the hour of danger, and meet with success in all lawful undertakings, but that spiritual blessings in Christ Jesus may be their enduring portion. The concert of prayer for seamen is one of the most interesting and profitable meetings held in a seaport place, and which the month brings around. In such a gathering all are interested. Some of the members of congregations and churches are upon the ocean, and have been gone for months and years; others, perhaps, have just left for long voyages, and others still on their homeward-bound passages. At such a meeting as this, the absent ones are brought vividly before the mind. The bare mention of the words husband, son, brother, endeared friend, finds at once a response in many hearts. It is, therefore, alike the dictate of nature as well as the great law of grace to look to Him "whose way is in the sea, and whose path is in the great waters," that he would be with the mariner in the storm and tempest, and at the appointed time return him to his native port and to the bosom of his family. Temperance and other reforms have wrought, and still are working, gradual and essential changes and improvements among all classes of seamen; but the most important, and that which stands higher than all others, is, that those who behold the wonders of God in the deep may become the friends and followers of the Saviour. The following hymn, which, with others of like character, is frequently sung, shows at once the sentiments and spirit of the seamen's concert of prayer. O, pray for the sailor, now far on the billow; O, think of his hardships, temptations, and pain. His home is the ocean; his hammock his pillow; He toils for our pleasure; his loss is our gain. While we are securely and peacefully sleeping, He stands at the helm and his duty performs; Now walking the deck and his painful watch keeping, Or sits at the mast head 'mid perils and storms.