A Solemn Appeal - James White

softest table articles--avoiding recipied cakes,
pastries, too much salt, saleratus, etc., etc.
When children shall be taught correct habits of
diet, much, very much, will be done toward the
removal of secret vice and other species of
unchastity from society. A good diet is of great
price; but especially so to children whose systems
are yet in their greenness, but rapidly advancing to
maturity. The fabric takes its character very much
from the material wrought into it. Let parents bear
this in mind. Let them lay this to heart; and cease
to encourage precocious and extravagant venereal
excitement in their children, by pampering them
with miserable dainties--meat instead of milk--pork
instead of bread! For by such indulgent pampering,
a growth of passion has, in numberless instances,
been excited, which has eventually brought down
the parents' gray hairs with sorrow to the grave.
Activity. Nothing is more important to the
prevention and cure of unchastity, than activity.
More lust is generated during the leisure hours of
sluggish inactivity than during all others. It is
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