ON MAGDALENISM: ITS NATURE, EXTENT, EFFECTS, GUILT, CAUSES, AND REMEDY. BY REV. RALPH WARDLAW, D. D. = DELIVERED AND PUBLISHED BY SPECIAL REQUEST OF FORTY FIRST AMERICAN, FROM SECOND GLASGOW EDITION. NEW YORK: J. S. REDFIELD, CLINTON HALL. INTRODUCTION. So great has been the progress of magdalenism during the last few years, and so numerous and fearful the crimes to which it has partially or wholly given rise, that the cause of morality and religion, which has been so much advanced by the issue of the following lectures in the Old World, seemed to demand their republication here; and in presenting the American edition, the propriety of modifying the title and of rendering some of the terms in the book less objectionable, was suggested by several influential ladies and gentlemen. Dr. Wardlaw's lectures were hailed with joy by his Christian brethren abroad, as a book much needed, and one calculated, by the learning, piety, and eloquence of its accomplished author, to be read with profit by that class to whom it is more peculiarly adapted; and many who are deeply interested in the moral and spiritual welfare of the abandoned, have taken the utmost pains to have it circulated and read by them: and with the cheering consolation, the deep and heartfelt satisfaction, |