l this personal and relative misery caused
by this genteel villain's degrading passion.

3. YOUNG MAN LOST.--Another terrible result of this sin is the practical
overthrow of natural affection which it effects. A young man comes from his
father's house to Chicago. Either through his own lust or through the
corrupt companions that he finds in the house of business where he resides,
he becomes the companion of lewd women. The immediate result is a bad
conscience, a sense of shame, and a breach in the affections of home.
Letters are less frequent, careless, and brief. He cannot manifest true
love now. He begins to shrink from his sister and mother, and well he may.

4. THE HARLOT'S INFLUENCE.--He has spent the strength of his affection and
love for home. In their stead the wretched harlot has filled him with
unholy lust. His brain and heart refuse to yield him the love of the son
and brother. His hand can not write as aforetime, or at best, his
expressions become a hypocritical pretence. Fallen into the degradation of
the fornicator, he has changed a mother's love and sister's affection for
the cursed fellowship of the woman "whose house is the way to hell." (Prov.
VII. 27.)

5. THE WAY OF DEATH.--Observe, that directly the law of God is broken, and
wherever promiscuous intercourse between the sexes takes place, gonorrhoea,
syphilis, and every other form of venereal disease is seen in hideous
variety. It is only true to say that thousands of both sexes are slain
annually by these horrible diseases. What must be the moral enormity of a
sin, which, when committed, produces in vast numbers of cases such
frightful physical and moral destruction as that which is here portrayed?

6. A HARLOT'S WOES.--Would to God that something might be done to rescue
fallen women from their low estate. We speak of them as "fallen women".
Fallen, indeed, they are, but surely not more deserving of the application
of that term than the "fallen men" who are their partners and paramours. It
is easy to use the words, "a fallen woman", but who can apprehend all that
is involved in the {432} expression, seeing that every purpose for which
God created woman is prostituted and destroyed? She is now neither maiden,
wife, nor mother; the sweet names of sister and betrothed can have no
legitimate application in her case.

7. THE PENALTIES FOR LOST VIRTUE.--Can the harlot be welcomed where either
children, brothers, sisters, wife, or husband are found? Su