A Solemn Appeal - James White

though you neither 'fear God nor regard man, yet at
least regard your own happiness, and induce not so
terrible a curse!
Matrimonial excess
"But this is not the only form of sin assumed by
this propensity. It invades married life, and sows
the seeds of misery within the hallowed pale of
wedlock. Reference is not now had to those who,
though married, seek foreign indulgence; but to
those who know their own legal companion only.
This will surprise many who are married, because
they think themselves entitled to any desired
amount of indulgence. Far otherwise. Nature cares
nothing, knows nothing about human enactments.
Excessive indulgence between husband and wife
produces all the consequences shown in the last
chapter to result from excessive Amativeness. A
miserable victim of connubial excess is hardly less
miserable than the victim of licentiousness. A
newly-married husband once called upon a medical
friend of the author to prescribe for what he
supposed to be venereal disease, contracted from
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