A Solemn Appeal - James White

he be prompt, or resolute, or bold or forcible; but
timid, afraid of his own shadow, uncertain, waiting
to see what is best, and always in a hurry, yet
hardly know what he is doing, or wants to do. Nor
will he walk erect or dignified, as if conscious of
his manhood and lofty in his aspirations, but will
walk and move with a diminutive, cringing,
sycophantic, inferior, mean, self-debased manner,
as if depreciated and degraded in his own eyes;
thus telling you perpetually by his shamed looks
and sheepish manner that he has been doing
something low, mean, contemptible and vulgar. His
secret practices have impaired both his physical
and mental manhood, and thereby effaced the
nobleness and efficiency of the masculine, and
deteriorated his soul, besides having ruined his
body. Be entreated, O foolish and wicked, not thus
to dethrone the man and enthrone the animal!
"He will, moreover, be dull of comprehension,
incorrect, forgetful, heedless, full of blunders of all
sorts, crude and inappropriate in his jokes, slow to
take the hint, listless, inattentive, absent-minded,
sad, melancholy, easily frightened, easily
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