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 have made, of all principle, and all hope; and, when elated by your success, remember that the measure thereof determines your future measure of punishment. The more you succeed, the deeper is the cup, and the bitterer its ingredients.

And you, aged offenders, whose chief province it is to procure victims, and, when you have gained them, to destroy every scruple, every alarm, every sentiment, which may yet remain, of regret and virtue—even you shall share in our pity, even you shall be exhorted not to despair. There are but a few steps between you and death; the unpardoned guilt of such a life would crush you down to the lowest hell: we tremble for you at the moment we advise you; Truly we can expect but little, and we are almost persuaded to say, ‘Let them alone, in vain you invite, in vain you threaten; they are steeled alike against hope and fear.’ Yet the idea of what you will suffer, prevents us from being silent, and to you also we proclaim the promises. ‘Come now (saith the Lord) let us reason together, though your sins are as scarlet and as crimson, return unto me with your whole heart, and I will abundantly pardon.’ ‘ The blood of Jesus Christ cleanseth from all sin.’

Unfortunate woman, whether young, matured, or aged, despise not this, perhaps the last taken of God’s compassion, which, if despised, will never reach you. There are some, we trust, who will read this address, and consider it, and pray over it and who knows whether we shall not hereafter meet a crowd of penitents, ransomed from the miserable class, and invited to dwell among the faultless and happy before the throne! We will cherish the idea, while a single gleam discovers the prospect to be still open.