At this place we see sailors and seamen from every part of the globe. Here their consciences are seared, their understandings darkened. We labor for the salvation of their souls.

What an evil influence goes out on the world from this great city!

The Five Points degrade the sailors: our sailors degrade the heathen. Witness the miseries of our Missionaries, imposed by our seamen in foreign ports. Again, the theatres, these chapels of the devil; more converts to sin and Satan are made here than at the Five Points.

Here maidens lose that delicacy of feeling, that retiring modesty, that inward value of purity in conduct which robes females in habiliments of terror to false-hearted men, whose "words are smoother than oil,"—and throws around the domestic fireside a rampart for the defence of virtue, impervious to the deliberate assassin of character.

The Lotteries! these strew flowers in the pathway to perdition, alluring the simple and swindling all who patronize them. Deception and falsehood are deeply interwoven in this whole system. Many a laborious man, whose little family relies on his daily earnings for food, shelter, and protection, and virtuous training, is sadly deceived; for the father, having bought a ticket and drawn a blank, mortified by the loss, in hopes of retrieving his first fatal step, takes one more in obedience to his hopes, fostered by the fact, one prize of $1000 had been sold at the office, and strengthened by the seller's opinion that success may attend his next effort. Another ticket is taken. A small prize is drawn. The discount is made, and a loss again is the result upon striking the balance between the prize and the price of the ticket.

A faint hope now inflames the mind of a more successful attempt; and as the lottery ticket vender is accommodating, and willing to discount his prize, and sell him a quarter or complete set of numbers, the simple man counts

the sellers of lottery tickets his friends, and buys more largely. In this way he proceeds, and, whether successful or not, ruin is soon superinduced; and the Five Points' riots inform the Alderman these men are waiting the administration of justice.

CHAPTER XV.

Groceries-Gambling-Reflections on lust-On the wages of sinCruelty of the keepers of houses of infamy-Manner of leading females to the Five Points-Progress of the school-Difficulties in the way of females who wish to leave the abodes of sin-Indifference in the city to the cause of reform-Faithfulness in preaching--Females taken to the refuge-Character of the seducer.

The groceries-dram-shops. Their influence is obvious. It is acknowledged-it is seen-it is felt. Every house of ill fame I have seen is an house of this character.

The females drink to intoxication. Strong drink kindles the passions of their visiters. Theft is the usual result. Many cases could be cited of recent occurrence. I have seen those who have been robbed, turned from the house by its keeper, and abused in the streets by the vilest of men.

Groceries are the outworks of the Five Points.

Gambling is known to be common in these places. It appears that I am quite safe in inferring, from an extensive acquaintance of facts; that in the degree to which a man proceeds in gambling, cards, dice, horse-races, infidelity, irreligious reading, sabbath-breaking, swearing, neglect of public worship, scepticism, to that same degree there is the strongest presumptive evidence that man is guilty of impurities not fit to be named.

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The question is often asked,

'Why are so few men joined in holy life to the Lord Jesus, openly confessing him before men ?"

One answers: "Because men have too much good sense to be imposed on by priestcraft; they are superior to vague fears and superstitious misgivings," &c.

But I unhesitatingly say, in the fear of my final Judge, "I am persuaded there is no one vice so ruinous, or any thing which has a name, that operates so powerfully against the salvation of man as lust. Combine all the engines of vice, and in the lusts of the flesh you have one single giant that is sovereign of them all."

Where he rules, the Gospel of Jesus Christ is powerless, except in being a savor of death unto death.

What multitudes from this city are his subjects; multitudes of lawyers, physicians, merchants, accountants' clerks, private gentlemen, daily laborers, servants, nominal christians, and ungodly ministers, is known only to him who seeth in secret all the deeds of darkness.

What St. Paul said of the heathen in the year he wrote to the Romans, I will say of thousands in this city. Read the first chapter of Romans.

Nor from this dark picture will I diminish ought, save the changing of the glory of God into creeping things and four-footed beasts, and unless I am laboring under an almost incurable error, there are those here who do even that.

Now, the great focus of all this vice is enclosed by Broadway, Bowery, Chatham, and Walker-streets. The Five Points and vicinity is the place where all these rays concentrate and glow. But it would be well for America if this boundary enclosed all. Iniquity is enthroned in high places. The splendid carriage bears in its roll many a female of distinction for family and for wealth, abandoned to refined vice. She has her admirers-they are few, but wealthy. Their wealth is her wealth. She is mis

tress, they are the slaves. They give their wealth unto her, and their "years unto the cruel."

At the Five Points we see the effects of gambling and its accompaniments, of lotteries, circuses, theatres, &c. &c. concentrating their influence in a whirlpool, from which few that enter escape.

Saturday evening, October 16th.-Wearied, I sat down to review some of the occurrences of the day. Where to begin is matter of doubt in my mind.

The Bible tells us, "the wages of sin is death." Who can doubt it? The infidel-the atheist cannot, and he who believes in a Divine Revelation will not. The sceptic is a fool, and believes most of the things he denies. Among the rest, he believes that sin is the cause of death. He cannot disbelieve it. He sees it. Nor are his visual organs deranged.

Then, if sin is the cause of death, let it be shown on any correct principle, that sin does not produce the death of infants. It is a law of nature, that like begets like. It holds in the animal and vegetable kingdoms. Revelation teaches the same doctrine, deducible from the most obvious principles of natural religion. "Adam begat a son in his own likeness." Nor has it pleased the Most High to alter that constitution of things. If devils had had conferred on them the high honor of multiplying their species, every common-sense man would unhesitatingly admit, it would be unnatural for them to beget an offspring unlike themselves. Indeed, the man who denies the doctrine of the Bible on this point, is, on the same principle, bound to deny the Providence of God.

Men laugh at what they are unable to disprove.

I have selected death as the subject on which to speak, because it is the most dreaded of all human miseries.

Some deaths are awful. Such is the death of impurity. God has fenced virtue by scorpions. Their sting embitters

the death of the licentious. Gall and wormwood mingle in their cup of misery.

The mercies of the wicked are cruel.

So long as a master or mistress can make money by keeping these women, food and raiment are provided for them; but a system of cruelty is practiced in all these cases which would make the ears of an Algerine to tingle. Despotism in its most cruel form, or the atrocities of the bloody inquisition, can scarcely surpass or equal the atrocity, the brutality of the depraved keepers of these houses. Soldiers are tied to the post and whipped for crime, but they are whipped according to the pre-enacted laws of war, which allow them the benefits of a regular trial.

These women are whipped, but not for crime-whipped because they are unwilling to submit to 30 many unfeeling monsters; or for expressing a desire to leave the place. Indeed, force and cruelty are the law of the day in these houses. Nor does this complete the tale of wo. When disease comes on, they are turned into the streets to die, heedless of their entreaties and cries.

Two such I found to-day. One has been an offcast for several weeks. She lives without a friend, in a room negroes use for debauchery. What deeds of depravity!

When the influences of the Spirit are withdrawn, men will stop but little short of demon conduct. And yet the consummate wickedness of these men and women, who decoy unsuspecting females into their base service, is frequently shrouded under a sanctimonious regard for purity, morality, and religion. The deception of the evil one is in their hearts, and the poison of asps is under their tongues.

Daily experience teaches me that all who visit harlots' houses are deceivers, hypocrites, and cruel men. I exclude sailors. Sailors are too honest, in most cases, to deny their crimes.

Many of these women have come to me and desired to be relieved.