A Solemn Appeal - James White

cherish;' but it is a love so full of selfishness that it
ceases to be true."
"Our graveyards, could they speak, would send
forth a sad and sickening wail from the young
wives and mothers who have been placed there, the
victims of matrimonial abuse of the sexual
function. Our Greenwoods, our Auburns, and our
Laurel Hills, are dotted with graves of young and
middle-aged women, whose lives have been
offered up as a sacrifice to the lustful passions of
their husbands. And not always are these husbands
ignorant of the result they are hastening; yet they
will not pause in their guilty work, but deliberately
and often furiously commit the murder for which,
were justice meted out to them, they would 'hang
by the neck till they were dead,' instead of being
permitted to live and woo a second, a third, and
sometimes even a fourth, victim to their base
desires."
"The human race are wondering and mourning
over the 'mysterious dispensations of Providence'
in permitting so much disease, and removing from
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