Morning herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1837-1840, 1840-05-27

pages each; and thus nearly l-2 millions of minds
have been shown the sin OF violating the 7th Com
| mandmenf.
One instance will show the good of their publica
tions. A lovely young woman read the Advocate,
and learnt the seducing ways of man. She was
| going west in canal boat; she saw a sweet young
girl, an orphan from Buffalo, travelling there with
| rich young man, who said he you'd find her goed
home out Of companionship. The young lady sus
pected he meant TO seduce the orphan; when the
boat reached its destination, she gave the orphan
girl her name and address, and sad " IL he does
deal a,ri' by You but attempts to seduce YOU come
to me-. Next DAY the orphan came to her for pro-
tection and said all his promises ere fl,e he had
tried to ruin her, but failed. Such is the good effects
of our publications They warn young g,ris. and
put them mp to the arts of man. In Rochester,
Utica Buffalo, Pittsburgh and other places, the same
g"od has been done, and many young girl has been
saved from the snare of seduction by tracts and
our female visitors
We have progressed tae past year. although the
cases OF detection, particularly IN the church have
been alarming Several parsons and holy men have
committed adultery and seduction, but our cause is
onward We have formed seventy-fuur new Societies
the last year and have total of five hundred and
nineteen societies, we have had mnch opposition but
the smile of Christ has gladened us. We have sent
several thousand petitions to various legisa-
lures for laws to be passed suppressing adultery.
In 10 bill to that effect has been reported in both
houses No less than 20 0C0 petitions have been
sent to that effect to the legislature f this state,
5000 are from this city; and bill had been reported
in the legislature to stop the violation OF the 7th
mandment. We have the Rev. II. l.. Murray, and
lecture moral reform, wish we had more.
1t is three years since the Visiting Committee first
was started; they have gone into the bye lanes and
broadways OF this city, warning young girls of the
have been reclaimed, many saved from the seducing
snares OF young men; and mere good done than in
any other foreign or domestic mission. Since the
society was first formed there have been 63 hopeful
conversions of young girls, and "a within the last
year have been saved from brothels and haunts of
vice Many young girls who were just on the point
of being seduccd, have been saved from ruin and
one Of these is now wealthy welded woman.
The report contained an Appeal to Mothers, tel
ling them that no human skill foresight could
their daughters from seduction without pray er and
piety; and pointing out the number of girls who an
nually fail prey to the seducer through the natten
ton, Ignorance, or neglect of the mother
Neither fathers nor mothers, the port said, must
shelter themselves under the hypocrtical robe of
false modesty or delicacy; they must tell their
daughters all about this SIM and them against
it. For this vice robbed paradise of its glory and
parents must help to stop it, and not listen to word
ly opinions on the subject, for they all wrong.
The report concludes with pow rful appeal to
parsons, saying to them, "Iyhy do you, who draw
your code of conduct from the Bible omit as if by
one common consent, the observance and netice Of
one OF its strongest commandments -? You see sis
ter fall or brother fall, into the of seduc
ton, and when by your preaching they might have
been saved.
The committee had nothing to fear OF TO hope from
their fellow beings. they rolled the responsibility
OF re.arding the operations OF the moral reformers
back on the conscences Of society," and they left the
event TO God But 1.-THE religious should longer op
pose them, they would say, "Tell il not in Gath;
publish 1t not IN Askelo1, lest the daughters Of the
uncrcumscribed triumph"
MIR. Holden then rose to speak. He said Gods
judgments were upon the old world because of mo-
raj mpurity; and feature of il was the impurity
OF the females, which this society contemplated
correcting. The cities Of the plain destroyed
because of another kind of violation of the seventh
commandment, which the society contemplated cor
rectng. Our Saviour came down to destroy adul-
terry and fornIcatIOn, and set up purity.
The apostles denounced these vices in all classes
high and low, in Corinth, Athens, and Rome, where
they existed almost as plentiuy as they now do at
New York, Boston, Baltimore, Washington, and
particularly Philadelphia Parsons and legislators
and lawyers, and philosophers violated the seventh
commandment then, and they do now The
apostles checked this vice, and may the members
OF this society
Luther, Melancthon, Calvin, Whitfield and the
Wesleys, all preached against this vice, and so
ought all parsons. We ought to begin to denounce
this vice Of seduction and adultery among the rich
and the lofty and holy in the land Begin at TIE top
of the hill. The work must commence in Washing.
ton-in Congress-in the White Housc-At Albany,
among our Legislators, and particularly our Sena-
tors This is where the vice most exists, and the
work Of moral reform must begin there.
Lecturers ought to lecture this vice, and to hold
G naked truth up to both sexes; not covered, so
that nobody could make il out; but open and naked
let IL stand before man and woman, in all its dcor-
nifty TO be seen and felt by all. And all the facts in
relation thereto, should be told in plain and bold
manner, without disguise.
III had time, could tell yen OF space OF SOOO
miles that Il travelled over, where this vice Of vio-
latng the Tth commandment exists in a way and to
extent, that even you New York, bad YOU
are, have not the most distant idea Of
Some say the Society uses indelicatc and vulgar |
language. The vulgarity is in the mind and heart Of
the hearer, not in the words sentiments. Besides
Christ always rebuked MS in the planest and strong
est language; and always called things by their right
names so ought we.
Mr. Shipman said, +" wish the report to go forth. |
II is expected. Sir, there is not a wretch, nor a
brothel, nor grog shop, nor a - house, nor any
Of those haunts OF nfamy, where married and single
meet for purposes Of pollution, that does not want
TO see what the Secretary has said in her annual |
report; and / wish them to see IL.
This rerortis great stone that shall roll over the
big people in the Guy, and the big papers, and ovea
the White House and the capitois at Albany and
Washing ton, and crush this vice 10 the bud This |
is old sin; il takes its start from the centre Of
man and woman ittakes deep root in the bottom OF
their afeetions-rch and poor, all practise it. They
love il, yet shall few feeble women root II out
want that report to go to every parson in the land
not by post for he'll not not take IL but to be Ia
ken and read To him b. feeble woman Then we shall
amt quiet Ill blow your society to fragments, for
do it."
Once we could not speak Of these things W thout Of |
lending the delicacy Of fenales but thanks to the
pious Mellow ell that charm Of false modesty is bro
ken, and the feelings Of women now much
changed. The young man that Is single can talk to
a young women this vice. and how to stop IL, and
he that is married talk to them also, and con-
trvc ways to stop it, and To purify the land. The
good woman not now quite so susceptible on this
point they used to be in the days false delicacy