A Solemn Appeal - James White

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Or finally, is my inquirer a victim of solitary vice, or of excessive legal commerce? Pale and exhausted, you would find relief. Well, thank God, relief is at hand! Abstinence will relieve you. It will cure you, provided your constitution is not too much injured. But how shall I abstain? say you. That's the question at issue. For, haunted day and night, worried down and overcome by temptation, it seems as though "the hand of necessity is upon me." You are right; the hand of necessity is upon you--necessity for your abstinence. You must abstain, or live uselessly, both to yourself and others--and die prematurely; and, added to this, die amid horrible reflections! You are destroying yourself--you must not persevere. "But," say you, "even the visions of the night provoke unchastity. We are defiled even in our dreams." But you know that the character of our sensations while asleep, depend very much upon the character of our thoughts and actions while awake. You must be chaste while awake, if you would be so while asleep. But your case demands that we be a little more 54
particular. Would you be purified, you must pay strict attention to your diet. Avoid condiments, spices, and all highly-seasoned and highlystimulating food and drinks. Confine yourself to a light vegetable diet; a diet which, if possible, shall overcome all tendency to costiveness. This is very important. Drink only water. Eat light suppers. Rise early--as early as you awake. You know your danger from morning lounging. Be active. Labor all you can without great fatigue. Bathe often in cold, or nearly cold, water. Carefully avoid excitement of every kind. Consider your dignity as a moral and intellectual being, "bearing the impress of Divinity." Rise above sensual thoughts. Remember that you are allied to angels no less than to brutes--to the purely spiritual no less than to the exclusively sensual. Lift up your head and heart. Feel above sensuality, and, under God, you will soon be above it. Notes: 1. Graham's Lectures to Young Men, p. 57. 2. The reader should be careful to observe that 55
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A SOLEMN APPEAL James White 1
Page 3 and 4: The real value of the lengthy artic
Page 5 and 6: Chapter 1 Chastity Definition of Un
Page 7 and 8: conduct of the divine Being in rela
Page 9 and 10: Solitary vice Testimony to the evil
Page 11 and 12: premature death, for this foul caus
Page 13 and 14: Instances like the above are, doubt
Page 15 and 16: present occur to our mind for the p
Page 17 and 18: debilitate the body, and by consequ
Page 19 and 20: alone. All the mental faculties par
Page 21 and 22: habit they may be cured, we have go
Page 23 and 24: uneducated state. They know absolut
Page 25 and 26: Again, children are ever associatin
Page 27 and 28: in the cherishing of amorous reveri
Page 29 and 30: therefore, depend very much upon th
Page 31 and 32: injury. The instant, therefore that
Page 33 and 34: articles of food--all they can at r
Page 35 and 36: The sentiment is almost as plain as
Page 37 and 38: eflecting, candid person will admit
Page 39 and 40: French novels are generally reckone
Page 41 and 42: But on the other hand, when the min
Page 43 and 44: perform a part in the removal of th
Page 45 and 46: which their case and location admit
Page 47 and 48: easy of digestion, are at the same
Page 49 and 50: during these stupid seasons of drea
Page 51 and 52: question. And, First, we will suppo
Page 53: points. But if your children are al
Page 57 and 58: Chapter 2 Appeal to Mothers My sist
Page 59 and 60: through hard study, when they would
Page 61 and 62: There are still secret attachments
Page 63 and 64: Mothers, view your children from a
Page 65 and 66: Satan is controlling the minds of t
Page 67 and 68: quite differently. I then looked up
Page 69 and 70: them, as faithful mothers should, f
Page 71 and 72: his artful snares. Because this cou
Page 73 and 74: vain, talkative, unsuitable compani
Page 75 and 76: abused nature to struggle against;
Page 77 and 78: self-reliance to our children, and
Page 79 and 80: emedy the evils which already exist
Page 81 and 82: sacrifice, holy and acceptable unto
Page 83 and 84: sufferers from different causes ove
Page 85 and 86: uining their health, yet they are s
Page 87 and 88: the transgressor. The inhabitants o
Page 89 and 90: energies are used up. They must die
Page 91 and 92: secret sin. "Casting down imaginati
Page 93 and 94: their mouths. All are accountable f
Page 95 and 96: peace, joy, and health. Even many p
Page 97 and 98: Chapter 3 Exhausted Vitality [This
Page 99 and 100: to to supply the generative organs,
Page 101 and 102: vigorous life to offspring; while f
Page 103 and 104: learned it from others, often comme
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"Dr. Alcott says: 'There is not a t
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every disease from which humanity s
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"The sufferer from this vice become
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"How different is the picture prese
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they could not stop or control this
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"The manner in which children are r
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"Confining children in-doors; compe
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cherish;' but it is a love so full
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treatment, committing the basest cr
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Chapter 4 The Marriage Relation Men
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more propriety in the increase of t
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therefore a burden. Children genera
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transmitted to future generations.
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accumulating human suffering. Anoth
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man to his fellowman. They do their
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overworked, and their vital energie
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providence of God which has torn th
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Great care should be manifested by
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The mother too often meets with col
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eason in regard to their labor. The
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If the father would become acquaint
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wife and mother, will reflect back
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suffering, her constitution has fai
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condition of things can be establis
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appetite, or she can teach them to
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thus afflicted. Little difficulties
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intemperance, and it is impossible
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Chapter 6 Errors in Education Many
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And not only has the physical and m
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giving them food, and thus teaching
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God, she is qualifying them to beco
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plain food, of that quality that wi
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y the Spirit of Christ. Why so many
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Chapter 7 Obedience to the Law of G
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Sinai. The Lord made this special c
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murmured, and were destroyed of the
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should be reproved. Such will not b
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"Let not sin, therefore, reign in y
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Chapter 8 Female Modesty I have lon
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and the lust of the flesh, or vain
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If the sisters were elevated, and p
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cheek, at an improper time and plac
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passions. I have inquired, When wil
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esting upon them. Then they might f
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have promised before God and angels
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imaginations perverted by novel-rea
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others, tell them their trials, the
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Great is the work and mission of wo
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their neighbor. Gossipers and news-
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agreeable or pleasant to unite with
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And there is a deficiency everywher
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confidence in them, that you think
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that knowledge to a practical use i
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no sin. These men and women will on
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een consumed upon the altar of base
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enjoined upon her to possess in san
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position. She has a responsibility
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in the best condition to render per
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passions in their infancy; and, as
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Chapter 10 Evils and Remedy [Under
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egards the beastly indulgence of wh
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kept his hands tied behind him as t
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proportionally greater pleasure and
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this subject. Much as reform is nee
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of this evil, he said that nine-ten
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and the habit once formed, like tha
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health, was quite fleshy, and becam
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the apathy and false delicacy that
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"But I forbear, simply alleging tha
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consider the evils consequent on th
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It enfeebles the mind "Frequent ind
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Now to add the most powerful drain
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have been affected by the indulgenc
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Thus, overloading the stomach cause
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endowment of offspring. Nerve alone
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secretion till the action and pleas
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longer the horse proper, but lowere
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possessing the virtues of either. T
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unavailing. Upon inquiring of the p
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victim to this devastating passion,
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"But, when it does not go so far as
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decay, checks of conscience, expost
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of his wretchedness, it is neverthe
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which he would much regret when he
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" 'The empire which this odious pra
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and with a kindly, cheerful disposi
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drink, and carouse, and rob, and ev
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depravity. Is it not high time that
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e-inflaming the stomach; so sensual
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eason why sin is sinful, as well as
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to the author, that a more prolific
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though you neither 'fear God nor re
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frequency is bad, yet harshness is
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and this he detests in himself, and
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in the scale of valuation in exact
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this matter if they would, and rare
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does not the latter equally, and fi
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completely wretched! Signs of sensu
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and kindred signs. "Reader, is it e
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he be prompt, or resolute, or bold
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sensualist, especially private libe
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passively folding your arms, to whi
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moral. INDULGENCE IS TRIPLE DEATH!
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unnerves resolution and cripples ef
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more doubtful, tedious, and despera
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stimulants. "Besides, why make 'fle
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"Some kinds of food, as already spe
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over-lift. As you recover, you are
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intellect has attained sufficient s
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eing in love, till he really select
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lads, not perhaps positively improp
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for making money out of another dis
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Chapter 11 Hygenic Treatment Perhap
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When this is impossible, the next b
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should never lie in bed to encourag
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induce good sound sleep. Much menta
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