A Solemn Appeal - James White

fascinate the imagination, and inflame the passions,
like a fictitious story book, but softens, soothes,
elevates, and sanctifies, the heart. When the youth
are in trouble, when assailed by fierce temptations,
they have the privilege of prayer. What an exalted
privilege! Finite beings, of dust and ashes,
admitted, through the mediation of Christ, into the
audiencechamber of the Most High. In such
exercises the soul is brought into a sacred nearness
with God, and is renewed in knowledge, and true
holiness, and fortified against the assaults of the
enemy.
No matter how high a person's profession,
those who are willing to be employed in gratifying
the lust of the flesh, cannot be Christians. As
servants of Christ, their employment, and
meditations, and pleasure, should consist in things
more excellent.
Many are ignorant of the sinfulness of these
habits, and their certain results. Such need to be
enlightened. Some who profess to be followers of
Christ, know that they are sinning against God and
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