A Solemn Appeal - James White

in the cherishing of amorous reveries and
"lascivious daydreams," And still more are they
who have no idea of the excesses of married life
being by this law forbidden. The consequences of
this ignorance are, as we have already seen, just
what might be expected--one is a mental adulterer,
another is an onanist, and another still is a married,
legal, sensualist--and all three, if not perfectly at
ease morally, are kind of conscientious, and think
themselves innocent of any violation of revealed
law! Now who will wonder that unchastity should,
under these circumstances, spread itself so rapidly?
Parents, through ignorance leave their children
an easy prey to filthy vice. Parental love, however
solicitous and careful, cannot teach children
lessons which itself has never learned; nor guard
them against dangers which it has never itself
discovered. And hence while many parents are
"verily guilty concerning the blood of their
children," many more are doomed to see their
children ruined, in perfect ignorance of what might
have been done to save them. For the latter,
ignorance may be a sufficient apology, when to the
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