hunted dog in the streets was ever tracked
by a yelping crowd of curs more than is the fresh girl or chance of a maid
in the accursed streets of our large cities. Price is no object, nor
parentage, nor home; it is the truth to affirm that hundreds and thousands
of well-dressed and educated men come in order to the gratification of
their lusts, and to this end they frequent this whole district; they have
reached this stage, they are being burned up in this fire of lust; men of
whom God says, "Having eyes full of adultery and that cannot cease sin."

9. LAW MAKERS.--Now should any member of the legislature rise up and
testify against this "earthly hell," and speak in defence of the moral
manhood and womanhood of the nation, he would be greeted as a fanatic, and
laughed down amid derisive cheers; such has been the experience again and
again. Therefore attack this great stronghold which for the past thirty
years has warred and is warring against our social manhood and womanhood,
and constantly undermining the moral life of the nation; against this
citadel of licentiousness, this metropolitan centre of crime, and vice, and
sin, direct your full blast of righteous and manly indignation.

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10. TEMPLES OF LUST.--Here stand the foul and splendid temples of lust,
intemperance, and passion, into whose vortex tens of thousands of our sons
and daughters are constantly being drawn. Let it be remembered that this
whole area represents the most costly conditions, and proves beyond
question that an enormous proportion of the wealthy manhood of the nation,
and we as citizens sustain, partake, and share in this carnival of death.
Is it any wonder that the robust type of godly manhood which used to be
found in the legislature, is sadly wanting now, or that the wretched
caricatures of manhood which find form and place in such papers as "Truth"
and the "World" are accepted as representing "modern society?"

11. PURITANIC MANHOOD.--It is a melancholy fact that by reason of
uncleanness, we have almost lost regard for the type of puritanic manhood
which in the past held aloft the standard of a chaste and holy life; such
men in this day are spoken of as "too slow" as "weak-kneed," and {426}
"goody-goody" men. Let me recall that word, the fast and indecently-dressed
"things," the animals of easy virtue, the "respectable" courtesans that
flirt, chaff, gamble, and waltz with well-known high-class licentious
lepers--such is the ide