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title: 'A Thought for the Forecastle or “Home Sweet Home”'
type: pdf
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authors:
- 'John Bingham Ripley'
date: 1857-01-01
collection: 'Archives'
subcollection: '19th century'
topics:
- 'Temperance'
- 'Domestic Missions'
- 'Devotional (General)'
scriptures:
- 'Proverbs 28'
- 'Romans 6'
- 'Luke 15'
url: https://confessional.org/archives/19th-century/ripley-1857-a-thought-for-the-forecastle-or-home-sweet-home
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# A Thought for the Forecastle or “Home Sweet Home”

Urgent pastoral appeal to sailors to repent, avoid rum and vice, and embrace seamen's homes and Christian fellowship. Warns of death, judgment, and the ruin of intemperance.

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