A Solemn Appeal - James White

consider the evils consequent on these its
perversions."
"To enumerate the tithe of the evils consequent
on excessive sexual indulgence, whether
promiscuous, or matrimonial, or solitary, all one in
substance, would fill a world with volumes, as it
already has with woes, and keep it full. We shall
develop, first, some of its destruction of health, and
generation of physical evils and sufferings; next, its
destruction of the moral tone or stamina, and its
production of propensity and depravity in forms
without number, and aggravation beyond
description. To enumerate a few.
It injures health
"To dwell here on the importance of health as a
means of enjoyment, and its essentiality to every
form and degree of happiness, would take us too
far from our subject. Suffice it to say, that
WHATEVER impairs the health, or engenders
disease, is proportionally fatal to happiness, and
prolific of suffering. Now, that excessive sexual
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