A Solemn Appeal - James White

Preface
It is not a pleasing task to point out the sins of
others. It is disagreeable to call attention to those
sins of youth, and the abuses and excesses, even in
the married life, which are ruining the souls and
bodies of ten of thousands; especially so while
feelings of great delicacy, relative to the subject,
exist in the public mind. But disagreeable though
the task may be, facts, terrible facts of everyday
observation, fully justify a solemn and faithful
warning to all.
We would cherish the profoundest respect for
the delicate feelings of the truly modest, and the
really virtuous; but we confess our want of respect
for that false delicacy in many, which takes fright
at the mention of those vices, in consequence of
which, they themselves exhibit evident marks of
rapid decay. The reader may as well prepare at the
first, by laying aside feelings of false delicacy, if he
is troubled with them, to be benefited by the
painful facts, plainly stated, in the following pages.
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