A Solemn Appeal - James White

difficulty of cure. Hear Dr. Woodward on this
point:
" 'That the evil is wide-spread and exceedingly
injurious, cannot be denied or doubted. A great
number of the ills which come upon the young, at
and after the age of puberty, arise from this habit,
persisted in, so as to waste the vital energies and
enervate the physical and mental powers of man.
" 'Nature designs that this drain upon the
system should be reserved to mature age, and even
then that it be made but sparingly. Sturdy
manhood, in all its vigor, loses its energy, and
bends under the too frequent expenditure of this
important secretion; and no age or condition will
protect a man from the danger of unlimited
indulgence, legally and naturally exercised.
" 'In the young, however, its influence is much
more seriously felt; and even those who have
indulged so cautiously as not to break down the
health of the mind, cannot know how much their
physical energy, mental vigor, and moral purity,
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