A Solemn Appeal - James White

and control the imagination, fascinate the mind,
and next follows an almost uncontrollable desire
for impure acts. If the mind were educated to
contemplate elevating subjects, the imagination
trained to reflect upon pure and holy things, it
would be fortified against this terrible, debasing,
soul-and-body-destroying indulgence. It would
become accustomed to linger with delight upon the
high, the heavenly, the pure, and the sacred, and
could not be attracted to this base, corrupt, and vile
indulgence.
What can we say of those who are living right
in the blazing light of truth, yet daily practicing and
following in a course of sin and crime. Forbidden,
exciting pleasures have a charm for them, and hold
and control their entire being. Such take pleasure in
unrighteousness and iniquity, and must perish
outside of the city of God, with every abominable
thing.
I have sought to arouse parents to their duty,
yet they sleep on. Your children practice secret
vice, and they deceive you. You have such implicit
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