Melville 'Moby Dick'
Melville’s Moby Dick “Woe to him whom this world charms from
Gospel duty! Woe to him who seeks to pour oil upon the waters when God has
brewed them into a gale! Woe to him who seeks to please rather than to appall!
Woe to him whose good name is more to him than goodness! Woe to him who, in
this world, courts not dishonor! Woe to him who would not be true, even though
to be false were salvation! Yea, woe to him who as the great Pilot Paul has it,
while preaching to others is himself a castaway.
...for the pulpit is ever this earth's foremost part; all
the rest follows behind the pulpit leads the world. From thence it is the
storm of God's quick wrath is first descried, and the bow must bear the
earliest brunt. From thence it is the God of breezes fair or foul is first
invoked for favorable winds. Yes, the world's a ship on its passage out, and
not a voyage complete; and the pulpit is its prow.”
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