 | 1859 - 48 sider
...llth, 1848, " to secure from vice and degradation a class of women who have forfeited their claims to the respect of the virtuous — to prepare and...religious instruction, shall elevate their moral nature — teach them how to gain an honest living by the ' work of their own hands,' and eventually to render... | |
 | William Biddle Atkinson - 1875 - 358 sider
...RISING SUN LANE. To secure from vice and degradation a class of women who have forfeited their claims to the respect of the virtuous; to prepare and maintain...religious instruction, shall elevate their moral nature— teach them how to gain an honest living "by the works of their own hands," and eventually to render... | |
 | William Biddle Atkinson - 1884 - 292 sider
...RISING SUN LANE. To rescue from vice and degradation a class of women who have forfeited their claims to the respect of the virtuous ; to prepare and maintain...religious instruction, shall elevate their moral nature — teach them how to gain an honest living " by the works of their own hands," and eventually to render... | |
 | Pennsylvania. Board of Public Charities - 1906 - 466 sider
...established in 1848. The object of the Society, in the words of the constitution adopted at that time, is "To secure from vice and degradation a class of women...eventually to render them useful members of the community." That this difficult task has been faithfully performed through all these years can be presumed by the... | |
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To secure from vice and degradation, a class of women who have forfeited their claim to the respect of the virtuous, — to prepare and maintain for them an asylum, which, by its system of religious instruction, shall elevate their moral nature, — to... 