A Solemn Appeal - James White

every disease from which humanity suffers.
"It weakens and deranges the stomach, the
liver, the kidneys, the bowels, the muscles, the
bones, the nerves, the brain, and all the various
organs of the body."
"The inordinate craving for spirituous liquors
and tobacco, which is to-day so almost universal, is
due, in a great measure, to the lack of vital force in
the system, resulting from sexual abuses."
"Stimulants and narcotics fail most signally to
satisfy the terrible craving; for self-abuse enkindles
a flame which cannot be extinguished! It opens the
flood-gates of the passions, and ingulfs all that is
pure and true! It makes a hell where Christ says
'the kingdom of Heaven is'! Ask him whose lifeforce
has been exhausted in this direction, and he
will tell you . . . that his thoughts are a consuming
fire! his hopes and aspirations blasted as by the
lightning's shock! his mind shattered and vapid, his
whole life a constant burden, and his every duty an
irksome task! He will tell you that his waking
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