A Solemn Appeal - James White

the apathy and false delicacy that pervaded the
community respecting it. But it invades all ranks.
Professed Christians are among its victims.
" 'Our boarding and day schools are sources of
untold mischief. A short time since, two sisters,
ladies of the first respectability, informed me that,
when very young, they were put to a female
boarding-school, where this vice prevailed, and the
practice was explained to them. They were blessed
with parents who were willing to converse with
and warn their children, and they escaped the
contamination.'
"One of her correspondents writes that she
'became addicted to solitary vice about the age of
nine years.' 'Facts and Important Information to
Young Woman,' etc., a work which we recommend
cordially, details many instances illustrative of the
prevalence of this vice.
"My own practice and observation, as to its
prevalence, confirm and considerably exceed these
statements. I have one infallible test, which I often
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