A Solemn Appeal - James White

more propriety in the increase of their families than
that shown in their business transactions. Those
who are seriously deficient in business tact, and
who are the least qualified to get along in the
world, generally fill their houses with children;
while men who have ability to acquire property,
generally have no more children than they can well
provide for. Those who are not qualified to take
care of themselves, should not have children. It has
been the case that the numerous offspring of these
poor calculators are left to come up like the brutes.
They are not suitably fed or clothed, and do not
receive physical or mental training, and there is
nothing sacred in the word home, to either parents
or children.
The marriage institution was designed of
Heaven to be a blessing to man; but, in a general
sense, it has been abused in such a manner as to
make it a dreadful curse. Most men and women
have acted, in entering the marriage relation, as
though the only question for them to settle was,
whether they loved each other. But they should
realize that a responsibility rested upon them in the
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