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saying, " If any of our readers think our language blasphemous, 

 we beg to remind them that the blasphemy is not in this 

 legitimate result of the principle ; but in the language and the 

 conduct of those who endeavour to reconcile cold-blooded 

 man-killing with the loving and the life-giving doctrines of the 

 Prince of Peace." 



In the outer pages (which those who wished could detach 

 from the rest) he more than once speaks of the sins which have 

 such temptations for the young, and often keep them enslaved 

 to the end of life. He refers to his father's " Practical Remarks 

 on Matt. v. 27, 28, addressed to Young Men," which he had 

 reprinted as an Oberlin Tract ; he gives a long extract from 

 " Hints to Young Men on the relation of the Sexes," by Dr. 

 John Ware, of Boston, U.S. ; he reviews Fowler's works, which 

 had just been edited by Joseph Barker (parts of which he 

 thought exaggerated; and of such works he says, "Their 

 effect will be according to the feelings with which you read 

 them. 6 To the defiled is nothing pure ? "), and Sylvester 

 Graham's Lecture on Chastity, which he subsequently re- 

 printed. He believed, as regards the majority of young 

 persons, that they were not as ignorant of evil practices as 

 their seniors supposed : and that the question was " whether 

 knowledge on one of the most important subjects that can 

 affect our present and eternal happiness shall be gained clan- 

 destinely, by corrupting imaginations and practices, by reading 

 injurious books, and by conversation with those who associate 

 pleasure with sin ; or legitimately, by serious conversation with 

 their elders, by reading books of earnest and faithful warning,* 

 and by careful instruction in the principles of physiology. We 

 have not the slightest hesitation in preferring the latter : we 

 speak from practical experience. . . . General instruction in 

 Christianity and the inculcation of religious principle is not 

 sufficient; any more than general instruction in temperance 

 can prevent drunkenness, or in peace can put an end to war. 



* Dr. Elizabeth Blackwell's " Counsel to Parents on the Moral Educa- 

 tion of their Children, 2nd edition, Messrs. Hatchard, Piccadilly, 1879," 

 is recommended by thoughtful mothers who have studied it. 



