A Solemn Appeal - James White

Chapter 5
The Care of Children
Children in this age are suffering with their
parents, more or less, the penalty of the violation of
the laws of health. The course generally pursued
with them, from their infancy, is in continual
opposition to the laws of their being. They were
compelled to receive a miserable inheritance of
disease and debility, before their birth, occasioned
by the wrong habits of their parents, which will
affect them in a greater or less degree through life.
This bad state of things is made every way worse
by parents' continuing to follow a wrong course in
the physical training of their children during their
childhood.
Parents manifest astonishing ignorance,
indifference, and recklessness, in regard to the
physical health of their children, which often
results in destroying the little vitality left the
abused infant, and consigns it to an early grave.
You will frequently hear parents mourning over the
136