A Solemn Appeal - James White

She relieves her, if possible, from active labor, and
anxiously consults a physician, who prescribes for
her without making searching inquiries, or
suggesting to the unsuspecting mother the probable
cause of her daughter's illness. Secret indulgence
is, in many cases, the only real cause of the
numerous complaints of the young. This vice is
laying waste the vital forces, and debilitating the
system; and until the habit, which produced the
result, is broken off, there can be no permanent
cure. To relieve the young from healthful labor, is
the worst possible course a parent can pursue.
Their life is then aimless, the mind and hands
unoccupied, the imagination active, and left free to
indulge in thoughts that are not pure and healthful.
In this condition they are inclined to indulge still
more freely in that vice which is the foundation of
all their complaints.
Mothers, it is a crime for you to allow
yourselves to remain in ignorance in regard to the
habits of your children. If they are pure, keep them
so. Fortify their young minds, and prepare them to
detest this health and soul destroying vice. Shield
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