A Solemn Appeal - James White

Chapter 2
Appeal to Mothers
My sisters: My apology for addressing you on
this subject is, I am a mother, and feel alarmed for
those children and youth who by solitary vice are
ruining themselves for this world, and for that
which is to come. Let us closely inquire into this
subject from a physical, mental, and moral point of
view.
Mothers, let us first view the results of this vice
upon the physical strength. Have you not marked
the lack of healthful beauty, of strength and power
of endurance, in your dear children? Have you not
felt saddened as you have watched the progress of
disease upon them, which has baffled your skill,
and that of physicians? You listen to numerous
complaints of headache, catarrh, dizziness,
nervousness, pain in the shoulders and side, loss of
appetite, pain in the back and limbs, wakeful,
feverish nights, of tired feelings in the morning,
and great exhaustion after exercising? As you have
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