The Vice Bondage of a Great City; or, the Wickedest City in the WorldHarland, Robert O.
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The Vice Bondage of a Great City; or, the Wickedest City in the World
Harland, Robert O.
Chicago (Ill.) -- Moral conditions; Prostitution -- Illinois -- Chicago
Better that your daughter should sleep today underneath the green sward in
the country church yard, in the city cemetery, than be the slave of a
dastardly vice system, wearing her flesh away, damning her soul and eating
out her heart for her vice masters.
Better that your boy should be taken from you in the flush of early
manhood than that he should grow up to fall a hopeless victim to the curse
of a great city.
God gave you your child. He gave you a terrible responsibility--the
salvation of that child's soul.
Therefore, prepare him or her for the battle "that goeth on unending to
the tomb."
We have told the story of a City Defiled, of a city given over to the
powers of darkness. We have shown the existence of a Vice Body and how it
protects and feeds its thousands of slaves, permitting them to live to
turn more drops of blood into gold for them.
A PICTURE OF CHICAGO.
The story is a picture of Chicago, drawn only after the most thorough
investigation, but we venture to say that investigation would reveal the
same conditions in all the larger cities.
Sincerely we pray we have done good. Our exposure was undertaken with a
sense of duty to the 2,000,000 residents of Chicago and to the thousands
that swarm into her gates daily.
Chicago needs civic leaders, civic martyrs,--men and women who will lead
the army of Christian warriors to battle; men and women who will lay down
their lives that their homes may be without peril from the terrible vice
plague,--that their children may never know the face of sin and vice.
Chicago is full of latent good, religious enthusiasm, moral courage. It
needs to be aroused.
One concerted blow struck at the head of the monster Vice would cause its
death.
Let Chicago's Christian population strike the fatal blow.
Let us engage in an honest rebellion with patriotism to our children, our
country and our God, in our hearts.
Overthrow the Dynasty of Vice! Overthrow the corrupt political system that
established and today sustains the Vice Trust!
Voice is without power adequately to describe the inferno that burns about
us and daily offers to the god of the pagans as a propitiatory sacrifice
the souls of men and women.
The human mind, if it could conceive the real horror of the meaning,--Vice
Trust,--would be paralyzed by the revelation.
Chicago needs human redeemers,--God-inspired men and women.
Human persistency, concerted effort, backed by unconquerable wills and
hearts that hold God as a perpetual visitant, cannot fail.
We of this generation have a sacred duty.
That duty is the scourging of the Vice combine and the cleansing of
Chicago. That duty devolves on the reform leaders and their thousands of
Christian followers.
THE STORY IS CONCLUDED.
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