A Solemn Appeal - James White

to discover the evil of any secret practice, of the
evil of which they may never have been
admonished.
When the intellect and moral sentiments are
justly cultivated, the subject may be regarded as
comparatively safe. But the cultivation of these
would be far less important, were it not that when
they are healthy and active, the lower passions, and
especially the amative one, find far less motive
power in the imagination, and consequently are
comparatively and sufficiently quiet. The person
with an active intellect, sanctified by the moral
sentiments, rises above the world of passionate
sensuality, and looks down upon it with unmingled
disgust.
We have elsewhere noticed society as an
educator. Parents and guardians will see the
importance of withdrawing their children as much
as possible from bad society. Children, however,
must not be secluded from society altogether. This
were, under ordinary circumstances, as injudicious
as it is judicious to give them the purest society
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