A Solemn Appeal - James White

Says the Rev. E. M. P. Wells, teacher in the school
of moral discipline, Boston, "Respecting the habit
of sexual self-indulgence, I should hope it was
unnecessary to speak of its dangerous and evil
effects."
Wm. C. Woodbridge, well known to the
educational world, speaks of it as a "solitary but
fatal vice, spreading desolation through our schools
and families, unnoticed or unknown." Tissot speaks
of it as the cause of painful, long, disgusting
disease. Says Dr. Woodward, the justly-celebrated
superintendent of the Mass. State Lunatic Hospital,
"A great number of the ills which come upon the
young at and after the age of puberty, arise from
this habit, persisted in so long as to waste the vital
energies, and enervate the physical and mental
powers of the man."
Todd, in his "Student's Manual," p. 147, says,
"I have known very many young persons who have
daily polluted themselves with this vice--and that,
too, for a number of years. ... I have lamented the
fall of many whom I have seen fall victims to
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