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Excerpt from The National Purity Congress: Its Papers, Addresses, Portraits; An Illustrated Record of the Papers and Addresses of the First National Purity Congress, Held Under the Auspices of the American Purity Alliance, in the Park Avenue Friends' Meeting House, Baltimore, October 14, 15, and 1 The Purity movement, vital in importance as involving the welfare of the individual, of the home and of the nation, has hitherto received but a minimum of consideration. In the old world the cruel and unjust system of State Regulation of Vice has long existed. The International Federation for the Abolition of State Regulation of Vice, of which Josephine E.Butler is the gifted pioneer and leader, is laboring effectively for its destruction. It has advocates in America. It was to oppose the introduction of that odious system of legalized vice that the New York Committee for the Prevention of State Regulation Of Vice was organized in 1876. Its first president was the honored and beloved Abby Hopper Gibbons. Last year the organization was enlarged, and incorporated, under the name of the American Purity Alliance. The National Purity Congress, held under its auspices, was its first appeal to the general public. The response, both on the part of writers and speakers, and in the great audiences in attendance throughout the seven sessions of the Congress, was most encouraging and grateful. This volume is a record of the papers and addresses of the Congress, which, it is believed, will do much to extend and perpetuate its usefulness, and to interpret and emphasize to the larger public the urgent need and the fundamental importance, in its various aspects, of the Purity Reform. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.