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<br><br>The papers and addresses are presented by the editor essentially as contributed by their authors. The general aim and purpose of all is the same. It is, however, to. Be distinctly understood that each writer and speaker is responsible only for his or her own paper or address.<br><br>The volume includes a rare galaxy of portraits of representative, philanthropic, men and women, of Amer ica and of Europe, which will be of exceptional interest to its readers in any and every clime.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>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.