Lectures on magdalenism : its nature, extent, effects, guilt, causes, and remedy : delivered and published by special request of forty ministers of the Gospel, and eleven hundred fellow-Christians / by Ralph Wardlaw.

  • Wardlaw, Ralph, 1779-1853.
Date:
1843
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Credit: Lectures on magdalenism : its nature, extent, effects, guilt, causes, and remedy : delivered and published by special request of forty ministers of the Gospel, and eleven hundred fellow-Christians / by Ralph Wardlaw. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    On these grounds, reverend sir, your memo- rialists are induced to make an earnest request that you would deliver a lecture, or lectures, on a subject so truly important: anticipating, from your honored labors 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 respect- ing the great evil your memorialists deprecate— and which might ultimately unite all truly patriotic and Christian men, and lead to active and strenu- ous co-operation for the prevention and cure of the prevailing immorality, and so advance the cause of Christ's kingdom. To this memorial there was subjoined a recom- mendation of its object, to which were affixed the signatures of thirty-eight ministers of the gospel; and I should feel that I failed in justice to the cause which I was thus invited to plead, were I to withhold from that cause the weight of influence which those signatures, individually and collect- ively, carry with them. The list will, at the same time, show how thoroughly free of the slightest tinge of sectarian predilection the whole move- ment has been. As the specific designations of church, and chapel, and locality, are appended in only a few instances, it will be sufficient to give the names ; and I shall insert them as they stand