Memoir of the Rev. John Stanford, D.D., Late Chaplain to the Humane And Criminal Institutions in the City of New-York
Memoir of the Rev. John Stanford, D.D., Late Chaplain to the Humane And Criminal Institutions in the City of New-York
Charles George Sommers
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Since this period, greater atten- tion has been paid to the miserable inmates of the Bridewell. In the afternoon he went to the State-Prison. Here be found the hospital crowded with the sick and the dying. Five men were affected with a very malignant fever, and the hall and wards were so foul and disagreeable, owing to the prevailing dis- ease, that it was difficult to perform the usaaUservtce. Respecting this visit, he remarks:—" I know it is hazardous to visit under such circumstances, but th...e Lord is my keeper, and my life is of little value ex- cept thus to be employed for the benefit of others." Tuesday, 25th. This day he visited most of the wards in the City-Hospital ; in one of which he found " a young female under deep penitence for her profli- gate life ; and there is great reason to hope that the blessed Jesus, at whose feet Mary Magdalene did not weep in vain, revealed his pardomng mercy to this unhappy victim of seduction. Conversion of R B , aged 19. '* This young worman was," says Mr.* Stanford, '' confined ^several months by consumption.
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