A rather rare and interesting sermon by Jedidiah Morse before the Boston Female Asylum. The Asylum, founded in 1800, took in orphaned young girls and educated and trained them as domestics, seemingly not as "adopted children." 

Morse, one of the leading educational voices of the time, argues that investing quality education the poor was the ethical and moral choice and the best for the entire country. An interesting work centralizing universal access to quality education as, in addition to moral development [not separate for Morse], perhaps the most important investment that could be made in the countries future.

Morse, Jedidiah. A Sermon, Preached in Brattle-Street Church, Boston, September 25th, 1807, Before the Managers of the Boston Female Asylum, on their Seventh Anniversary. Boston. Russell & Cutler Printers. 1807. 23pp.

A good copy, bound in wraps, nearly disbound, generally bright pages with some light foxing. Old numbering in the corners as shown.