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]
Licence: Public Domain Mark
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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![% [ xix ] Are all women fo much more abandoned than men, when they take to evil courfes, as to be deemed irreclaimable ? Has virtue no charms to capti¬ vate their hearts, or religion no power to create a delegation of vice and folly ? Let thofe who have examined only the foul corners of the heart* or pryed only into the darkefl fcenes of iniquity, argue as cogently as they pleafe, even from real fads, they mud in their turn indulge others, who know alfo from experience, that there is a native ingenioufnefs in the minds of fome women, who have gone affray, that inclines them to with for the means of repentance ? And fhall we do nothing to induce them to repent f Some of thefe unhappy women, have fenfe enough to fee themfelves become the Jlaves, the abjett Jlaves of an abandoned bawd ; and is it poffible for them not to wijh to be fet at liberty ? If a door is opened to them, is it not probable that fome of them will come in ? Suppofe only a tenth part of the proffitutes in London, are received into the Lock Hofpital, and that only a tenth part of thefe, were to take refuge in the Magdalen Houfe, we fhould be able to do a very eminent fervice in an immediate view, and a dill greater good in it’s confequences. Go, and fm no more, was the fentence of the Savior of mankind, to one who it is fuppofed was a penitent. We may fay, come and learn how to repent. Ton have done great mifchief to yourfelf and others, we will teach you to be happy in yourfelf and to do good to mankind. i Thus may we hope, that this Charity will not become a Lock Hofpital, as fome imagine, nor yet a houfe of Correction. Till the plan is extended, and there is an income adequate to the defign, it ought not to degenerate into c 2 an](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30417417_0025.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
