INTRODUCTORY REMARKS
THE MATTER CONTAINED IN THE FOLLOWING PAGES HAVING
BEEN LEFT AT OUR DISPOSAL, WE FEEL IMPELLED BY A STRONG SENSE OF CHRISTIAN
DUTY AND LOVE OF HUMANITY, TO BRING IT BEFORE THE PUBLIC IN ITS PRESENT
FORM. WE BELIEVE THAT TOO MUCH IMPORTANCE CANNOT BE ATTACHED TO THIS SUBJECT,
AND THAT NO FALSE DELICACY SHOULD PREVENT THOROUGH INQUIRY AND INVESTIGATION
UPON A QUESTION IN WHICH THE PRESENT AND FUTURE WELFARE OF MULTITUDES IS
INVOLVED. AS A PEOPLE, WHO PROFESS TO BE LOOKING FOR THE COMING OF THE
LORD, AND PREPARING FOR TRANSLATION INTO HIS HOLY PRESENCE, PERHAPS WE
HAVE TOO LONG KEPT SILENT ON THIS GREAT SOURCE OF PHYSICAL, MENTAL AND
MORAL POLLUTION, AND A HIGH DUTY AND RESPONSIBILITY REMAINS TO BE DISCHARGED
IN THIS MATTER.
WE WOULD THEREFORE EARNESTLY APPEAL TO PARENTS AND
GUARDIANS TO GIVE THIS WORK A THOROUGH AND JUDICIOUS CIRCULATION. THE FLOOD-GATES
OF CORRUPTION ARE BEING OPENED UPON THE WORLD; AND IN NO WAY, PERHAPS,
IS SATAN MORE SPEEDILY ACCOMPLISHING THE UTTER RUIN OF A FALLEN AND FAST
DEGENERATING RACE THAN THROUGH THE CHANNEL OF UNCHASTITY AND LICENTIOUSNESS.
IN THE FOLLOWING PAGES THE EVIL IS FULLY POINTED OUT: AND TO MANY, WE DOUBT
NOT, THEY WILL ALSO APPEAR AS A FRIENDLY HAND POINTING OUT THE REMEDY AND
THE WAY OF ESCAPE. AGAIN WE SAY, THEREFORE, LET THE WORK BE FAITHFULLY
CIRCULATED. IT WOULD PERHAPS BE WELL FOR EVERY
MEMBER
OF THE FAMILY TO POSSESS A COPY FOR HIS AND HER OWN PERSONAL POSSESSION.
AND REMEMBER THAT IT WILL NOT BE ENOUGH TO MERELY PLACE THIS WORK IN THE
HANDS OF THE YOUNG. CEASE NOT TILL YOU HAVE GOOD EVIDENCE THAT THE MORAL
SENSE OF THE INDIVIDUALS IS SO AROUSED, THAT THEY WILL STUDY AND FAITHFULLY
HEED THE INSTRUCTION HEREIN CONTAINED.
AND TO THE YOUNG WE WOULD SAY, AS YOU VALUE HEALTH,
HAPPINESS AND LIFE, A SOUND MIND, AN APPROVING CONSCIENCE, AND A HIGH MORAL
SENSIBILITY, PASS NOT OVER THIS SUBJECT LIGHTLY, NOR FORGET THE WARNING
HEREIN GIVEN YOU. TO YOU THERE MAY SEEM TO BE NO DANGER, BUT THE DANGER
IS ALL THE GREATER BECAUSE SO INSIDIOUS; AND BEING INSTRUCTED YOURSELVES,
YOU MAY BE ABLE TO RAISE THE WARNING VOICE TO OTHERS WHO ARE IGNORANTLY
SACRIFICING THEMSELVES UPON THE ALTAR OF THIS MOLOCH OF PASSION.
BUT IF CONSIDERATIONS WHICH CONNECT THEMSELVES WITH
THIS PRESENT LIFE ARE NOT SUFFICIENT TO MOVE YOU, LOOK BEYOND THIS STATE
OF BEING, CAST YOUR EYE OVER INTO ETERNITY, PONDER ITS EFFECTS UPON YOUR
ETERNAL DESTINY, AND AS YOU VALUE ETERNAL LIFE, SHUN A VICE WHICH WILL
FOREVER DEBAR YOU FROM THE PRESENCE OF HIM WHO HAS SAID, "BE YE HOLY FOR
I AM HOL