A Solemn Appeal - James White

and with a kindly, cheerful disposition, I have
become dyspeptic, gloomy, and unsociable. I am
wretchedly timid and irresolute, my mind very
weak, and filled with imaginary terrors. In fine, I
have suffered so much in body and mind, and
seeing no prospect of being restored to health and
usefulness, that I am sunk in despair, and am daily
contemplating SUICIDE. It is the anguish my
death would cause my mother and sister, whom I
devotedly love, and for whom I would wish to live,
and whom I would wish to maintain, that mainly
prevents.'
"But why detail more? These are the
constitutional effects of this sin. Behold the MIND
a wreck--the SOUL undone!
It engenders depravity in all its forms
"But, all this, most terrible as it is, is not the
worst. Amativeness being situated in the midst of
the animal organs, and this indulgence tending
necessarily to inflame it, its inflammation of course
inflames, diseases, and perverts them also. Section
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