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A Solemn Appeal

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    LICENTIOUSNESS

    “That promiscuous indulgence is most sinful, is evident from that terrible penalty affixed to its perpetration. To be eaten up by piecemeal, with sores and ulcers,nauseating and loathsome beyond description - to lose bone, and muscle, and nerve, by inches, and literally be eaten up alive, besides being simultaneously tortured with agony the most excruciating mortals can endure, affixes nature’s seal of proportional moral turpitude upon its cause. Consequences thus direful show that their cause must be a sin proportionally aggravated. Quacks may essay to cure it, but its virulent poison still lurks in the veins for life. Calomel may give immediate relief, but the grave alone can entirely eradicate it. Sin, ye who will; but suffer, ye who sin. God is just, and but visits his violated law with mete retribution.SOAP 230.3

    “Nor does this curse of curses cease with its author, but is justly entailed upon his children, and his children’s children, ‘unto the third and fourth generations.’ See yonder maimed and hobbling object of pity, his limbs distorted, his joints dislocated and racked with pain, his life tormented with running sores, his mind feeble, and passions ungovernable! All this is but the wages of his father’s licentiousness. A physician once remarked to the author, that a more prolific cause of scrofula, consumptions, and kindred affections did not probably exist, than this sin of parents; adding, that it often broke out two or three generations down, and could rarely be eradicated from descendants. Oh! how great the crime of thus cursing posterity, instead of blessing it with all the endowments conferred by virtuous love!SOAP 231.1

    “Nor do many know how prevalent this disease is in its various forms. Its victims keep their own secret as long as possible, and doctor themselves, except when their case becomes desperate; and then confide it only to their medical adviser, whose very profession forswears him to keep the secret. Oh! how many thousands of our young men have ruined their constitutions, and become invalids for life, solely by means of this disease, or attempts to cure it. Indeed, its prevalence at the Sandwich Islands actually threatens the extinction of that nation; which, at its present rate of mortality, it is computed to effect in about sixty years! And if it goes on to increase in the ratio of its past progression, it will ultimately cut off our race itself!SOAP 232.1

    “The fact that SEVERAL THOUSAND COPIES of a little work of less than twenty pages, on the cure of venereal diseases, are sold every month, at one dollar per copy, and that other works of this class sell in proportion, shows conclusively that there are several thousandSOAP 232.2

    new victims every month! No patient wants more than a single work, yet TWENTY THOUSAND PER MONTH does not equal the sales of these works, and of course falls far short of the number of victims, for none but venereal patients will pay thus dear for so small a book, of no manner of interest to those not thus afflicted. All this, besides all those who indulge with other than harlots by profession! Almost incredible, but nevertheless true!SOAP 233.1

    “We thus see that nature, as well as the Bible, condemns licentiousness; so that disbelievers in the latter are yet bound by nature’s inflexible laws to continence, except in wedlock. But a point thus self-evident, need not be urged. Beware then, O passionate youth, how you commit this sin! Even though you neither ‘fear God nor regard man, yet at least regard your own happiness, and induce not so terrible a curse!SOAP 233.2

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