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Sermon Critique and Prostitution Debate in London
A reader letter laments poor sermons at a parish church and urges better preaching from the curate, noting many attend nonconformist meetings for clearer gospel delivery. It then critiques London’s street vice and calls for regulated public houses to curb lewdness, prostitution, and related crime, urging police action and reform.
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Churchman
London
Baily
Tyburn
Circe
Shanae
Magdalen Hospital
Tam
C. Pericles
Bengal
Lord Clive
Torbay
Robinhood
Butcher-Row
Temple-Bar
Lord Mount Steuart
Earl of Bute
Viscount Windsor
St. Michael’s
Queenhithe
William Pycroft
Thames Street
Biggleswade
John Mowbray
Smith
Caius College
Smear
Nichols
Lowther
Churchill
Trinity
Affleck
Emanuel
Batchelor
Deal
News
Sun
Adexander
Ma Pont
Christian
Pyne
Jamaica
Britannia
Clark
Barbadees
Hankey
Sheldon
St. Kittes