A Solemn Appeal - James White

In such cases, when mothers relieve their daughters
from active labor, they, by so doing, virtually give
them up to idleness, to reserve their energies to
consume upon the altar of lust. They remove the
obstacles, giving the mind more freedom to run in
a wrong channel, where they will more surely carry
on the work of self-ruin.
The state of our world is alarming. Everywhere
we look, we see imbecility, dwarfed forms,
crippled limbs, misshapen heads, and deformity of
every description. Sin and crime, and the violation
of nature's laws, are the causes of this
accumulation of human woe and suffering. A large
share of the youth now living are worthless.
Corrupt habits are wasting their energies, and
bringing upon them loathsome and complicated
diseases. Unsuspecting parents will try the skill of
physicians, one after another, who prescribe drugs,
when they generally know the real cause of the
failing health; but for fear of offending, and losing
their fees, they keep silent, when, as faithful
physicians, they should expose the real cause.
Their drugs only add a second great burden for
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