A Solemn Appeal - James White

sores and ulcers,nauseating and loathsome beyond
description--to lose bone, and muscle, and nerve,
by inches, and literally be eaten up alive, besides
being simultaneously tortured with agony the most
excruciating mortals can endure, affixes nature's
seal of proportional moral turpitude upon its cause.
Consequences thus direful show that their cause
must be a sin proportionally aggravated. Quacks
may essay to cure it, but its virulent poison still
lurks in the veins for life. Calomel may give
immediate relief, but the grave alone can entirely
eradicate it. Sin, ye who will; but suffer, ye who
sin. God is just, and but visits his violated law with
mete retribution.
"Nor does this curse of curses cease with its
author, but is justly entailed upon his children, and
his children's children, 'unto the third and fourth
generations.' See yonder maimed and hobbling
object of pity, his limbs distorted, his joints
dislocated and racked with pain, his life tormented
with running sores, his mind feeble, and passions
ungovernable! All this is but the wages of his
father's licentiousness. A physician once remarked
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