A Solemn Appeal - James White

which their case and location admit. Let parents
and guardians remember, too, that they are
necessarily the prime educators of their children,
and govern themselves as an enlightened love for
children will dictate. Much may be done, too, by
school-teachers, ministers, and indeed by every one
whose influence extends to children. But, in order
to teach, parents, teachers, ministers, etc., must be
themselves instructed. But some there are who tell
us that instruction on the subject of unchastity can
serve only to aggravate the evil, or at least that it
does more hurt than good.
"The whole question, therefore," to apply the
language of Dr. Combe, "resolves itself into this,
whether it is more beneficial to enlighten the
understanding so as to dispose and enable it to
control and direct this feeling, or (under the
influence of error in philosophy and false delicacy
founded upon it,) to admit it to riot in all the
fierceness of animal instinct, withdrawn from the
eye of reason, but not thereby deprived of its
vehemence and importunity." We hope every
reader--and especially every doubting one--will
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