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 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?  Surely, no.  Home is a sphere alien to the harlot’s estate.  See such an one wherever you may—­she is a fallen outcast from woman’s high estate.  Her existence—­for she does not live—­now culminates in one dread issue, viz., prostitution.  She sleeps, but awakes a harlot.  She rises in the late morning hours, but her object is prostitution; she washes, dresses, and braids her hair, but it is with one foul purpose before her.  To this end she eats, drinks, and is clothed.  To this end her house is hidden and the blinds are drawn.

8.  LOST FOREVER.—­To this end she applies the unnatural cosmetique, and covers herself with sweet perfumes, which vainly try to hide her disease and shame.  To this end she decks herself with dashing finery and tawdry trappings, and with bold, unwomanly mien essays the streets of the great city.  To this end she is loud and coarse and impudent.  To this end she is the prostituted “lady,” with simpering words, and smiles, and glamour of refined deceit.  To this end an angel face, a devil in disguise.  There is one foul and ghastly purpose towards which all her energies now tend.  So low has she fallen, so lost is she to all the design of woman, that she exists for one foul purpose only, viz., to excite, stimulate, and gratify the lusts of degraded, ungodly men.  Verily, the word “prostitute” has an awful meaning.  What plummet can sound the depths of a woman’s fall who has become a harlot?