A Solemn Appeal - James White

frequently been manifested. The children often die
prematurely, and those who reach maturity, in
many cases, are deficient in physical and mental
strength, and moral worth.
The father is seldom prepared, with his failing
faculties, to properly bring up his young family.
These children have peculiar traits of character,
which constantly need a counteracting influence, or
they will go to certain ruin. They are not educated
aright. Their discipline has too often been of the
fitful, impulsive kind, by reason of his age. The
father has been susceptible of changeable feelings.
At one time over-indulgent, while at another he is
unwarrantably severe. Everything in such families
is wrong, and domestic wretchedness is greatly
increased. Thus a class of beings have been thrown
upon the world as a burden to society.
Those who increase their number of children,
when, if they consulted reason, they must know
that physical and mental weakness must be their
inheritance, are transgressors of the last six
precepts of God's law, which specify the duty of
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