A Solemn Appeal - James White

over-lift. As you recover, you are in great danger of
considering yourself stronger than you really are,
and thus strain your back, and bring on a relapse of
your night difficulty. Mark this caution.
"Graham's recommendation to touch these
organs as little as possible, and to bring up children
thus, I cordially indorse, because contact
necessarily promotes both desire and inflammation.
Prevention
"An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of
cure--here preeminently. Not to begin is the only
safety. Nor is this prevention difficult. Nature has
taken effectual means to secure this end. That wall
of native modesty which she has thrown around
every wellconstituted youth, is ample protection.
They only require to be put upon their guard. They
would not fall into these habits unless coaxed into
them, nor then if they once suspected them of
being either wrong or injurious. Such knowledge
would furnish an allpowerful stimulant to modesty,
and render it effectual. They now suspect no harm,
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