A plan for establishing a charity-house, or charity-houses, for the reception of repenting prostitutes. To be called the Magdalen Charity / [Anon].

  • Jonas Hanway
Date:
[1758]
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Credit: A plan for establishing a charity-house, or charity-houses, for the reception of repenting prostitutes. To be called the Magdalen Charity / [Anon]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    [ ] the people ; to employ thefe women in ufeful labor, and to habituate them to a fober and religious life. I' • _ • • Of the whole race oi Ad ant y there are furely none who (land in greater need of thefe helps, than thefe unhappy women. I appeal to every dif- paffionate mind, if there can be greater objects of commiferation, than poor thoughtlefs girls, hurried into ruin by temptations, to which they are fometimes expofed, againft their intentions. No girl can help being young or handfome, nor are youth and beauty things that the poffeffors are much inclined to conceal. The impreffions of religion and modefty go a great way, but if thefe young women are not guarded by others, how ill qualified do too many prove in guarding themfelves, when they are furrounded by fnares, the moft artfully and induftrioufly laid, by thofe who make a trade of warring againft them. What contrivances will not a depraved mind fugged to accomplish its end ? Where men are en¬ dowed, not only with fuperior faculties, but with all the advantages which education and fortune afford, if they will proditute their honor to gratify- their appetite, many will become their prey. The diftin&ions of fortune, do not alter the rights of mankind. But when a man forgets the great law of doing as he would be done b\\. it is not furprizing he fhould debauch his neighbour s daughter, at the very time that an offer of marriage with bis own, would be deemed the higheft indo¬ lence. Such are the inconfiftencies men fall into ! And what fhall be faid of thofe who pretend to honor and juflice, and yet, after gratifying their in¬ clinations, expofe her to every kind of mifery, to whom they profeffed- the fmcereft love. How many men are engaged by promifes, or by words that were underftood as promifes which they do not regard ? The offers which
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