Lectures on female prostitution : its nature, extent, effects, guilt, causes, and remedy / by Ralph Wardlaw.

Date:
1842
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Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    female profligacy are wholly inadequate thereto, by reason of their fewness and limitation.—Further, your Memorial- ists feel assured, that the public mind requires to be more awakened to a just sense of that wickedness, which is so great a stain both on our common Christianity and our boasted civilization. “ On these grounds. Reverend Sir, your ^Memorialists are induced to make an earnest request, that )'ou would deliver a lecture, or lectures, on a subject so truly important, anticipating, from your honoured labours heretofore, the most beneficial and gratifying results, which, accompanied by the divine blessing, would, we believe, contribute to bring the public mind into a right position respecting the great evil your IMemorialists deprecate,—and which might ultimately unite all truly patriotic and Christian men, and lead to active and strenuous co-operation for the j)revcntion and cure of the prevailing immorality, and so advance the caxise of Christ’s kingdom.” To this Memorial there was subjoined a recommendation of its object, to which were affixed the signatures of (hirtxj- ekjht jMinisters of the Gospel:—and I should feel that I failed in justice to the cause which 1 was thus invited to ])lead, were I to withhold from that cause the weight of influence which those signatures, individually and collec- tively, carry with them.—The list will, at the same time.
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