“ No sin is made lighter of by multitudes than lewdness; yet no crime is more injurious to the bodies and souls of individuals, to the peace and comfort of families, and to the welfare of society, and no sin makes way for more horrible consequences, as introductory to all other wickedness. ”

“ Rich people do not beat their wives, and gentlemen do not maim their sweethearts. Yet daily in our streets, and in the life of our “better classes,” is an example which homely instincts quickly imitate. A gentleman meets a poor girl. He does not treat her with open roughness; he knows a better game. He sees her weak in comforts, poor in worldly goods, bare, indeed, even of the cheapest pleasures. He strikes at her with the strong temptations of comforts, clothes, pleasures ”

“ But strict equity in meting measure for measure to all who do wrong, would at least mark the public sense of justice, and bring a better social tone through the spirit rather than through the letter of a new legislation. ”

“ But how will these heathens rise up in judgment against, and condemn thousands falsely called Christians, who, having seduced and defiled the objects of their pretended affection, afterwards treat them with contempt and hatred, leave them to the infamy and misery of prostitution, disease, and death; and without the least compassion for them or their broken-hearted parents, proceed to add new trophies of their infamous success, and to multiply the victims of their unbridled lusts. ”

“ The many social customs which cramp woman’s power of earning bread, and the many laws and rules which fetter all kinds of industry, are among the obvious causes which place her at the mercy of man; while a materialised tone of society, making good dinners and strong stimulants the chief good, and innocent amusement an oddity, establish the dominance of man, and abridge woman’s domains,—the pleasure-ground, the ball-room, and the home. ”

“ Young persons, especially females, are never so safe as under the inspection of prudent and pious parents; for their own inexperience and credulity, and the intoxicating nature of flattery, together with the artifice of those who are continually laying snares for them, expose them to imminent danger. ”

“ We gracefully veil the sins of the seducers; we do not talk of them in the drawing room, nor compile statistics of them in the office; but their existence is the current cant in any meeting of young men. ”

“ And, indeed large families even when trained up in the fear of God, will frequently occasion many trials, anxieties, aud sorrows, to their parents; and the grief of losing them in infancy is transient and tolerable compared with that of seeing them grow up and live in wickedness. Let parents then rejoice as though they rejoiced not, and submit with resignation if the Lord bereave them of their beloved offspring ”

“ Females are principally led astray from the following causes:—One fourth from being servants in taverns and public houses, where they have been been seduced by men frequenting these places of dissipation and intemperance. One fourth from the intermixing of the sexes in factories and those employed in warehouses and shops. One fourth by procuresses or females who visit country towns and markets for the purpose of decoying good looking girls. ”

“ When young women listen to the vile proposals or flattering promises of seducers, they not unfrequently seclude themselves from every prospect of forming honourable connexions, and voluntarily consign themselves to a single life, if still worse consequences do not ensue ”

“ It seems her father’s death took place somewhat suddenly, caused by apoplexy, leaving her to the care of a brother and step-mother, but they having disagreed the house was given up, and Agnes went to keep house to her brother. During which time she became attached to a young gentleman named George Wylie, a companion of her brother. He often declared he would marry her but for the interference of his parents. He now proposed that she should accompany him to Southampton, where their marriage would take place previous to their departure for India. ”

“ They are therefore their own enemies, if they desire to go from home alone, especially among those who are strangers to God and true religion; but those parents are much more inexcusable who allow or encourage their children in acting so imprudently nay, who do not iuterpose their authority to prevent them from heedlessly exposing themselves to unseen and unsuspected danger. ”

“ The remaining fourth may be divided into three classes:—First, such as being indolent or possessing bad tempers, and leave their situations. Second, those who are driven to that awful course by young men making false promises: Third, children who have been urged by their mothers to become prostitutes for a livelihood. ”