A Solemn Appeal - James White

Sickly men have often won the affections of
women apparently healthy, and because they loved
each other, they have felt themselves at perfect
liberty to marry, neither considering that by their
union the wife must be a sufferer, more or less,
because of the diseased husband. In many cases,
the diseased husband improves in health, while the
wife shares his disease. He lives very much upon
her vitality, and she soon complains of failing
health. He prolongs his days by shortening the days
of his wife. Those who thus marry, commit sin in
lightly regarding health and life given to them of
God to be used to his glory. But if those who thus
enter the marriage relation were alone concerned,
the sin would not be so great. Their offspring are
compelled to be sufferers by disease transmitted to
them. Thus disease has been perpetuated from
generation to generation. And many charge all this
weight of human misery upon God, when their
wrong course of action has brought the sure result.
They have thrown upon society an enfeebled race,
and done their part to deteriorate the race, by
rendering disease hereditary, and thus
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