A Solemn Appeal - James White

comes, go to bed only to sleep--follow up this
course day after day--etc." Now this advice is to
the point. And those who follow it will do more to
shun temptation and sin, than can be done for them
by all the medical prescriptions for this matter by
all the sons of AEsculapius, since the world began.
Let lascivious sufferers take the idea. Let parents
take the hint, and bring up their children to active
labor. Yes, labor, ye sons and daughters of
idleness, and of the parlor. Labor is what your
delicate constitutions need. Sow to idle fashion if
ye will, but be assured that if you sow to this
fashion, you will reap; lasciviousness, which you
may not control without a struggle.
And "what shall we do?" was the significant
inquiry of certain persons of John the Baptist.
Would to God that this might be the language of all
my readers in view of the claims of the cause of
moral purity. Now we do not profess to stand in the
place of Christ's forerunner. But, as reflection and
examination have taught us something, we think
we may safely presume to give some directions to
as many readers as are sincerely asking the above
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