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MORAL CONSIDERATIONS 
1. Give some evidence that good health does not require sex in¬ 
dulgence. 
2. By what kind of life can a man best prepare himself for mar¬ 
riage ? 
Avoid Temptation. — Young men and young women who 
have adopted for themselves the ideal of keeping themselves 
pure for their future mates may fall into trangression through 
inadvertence. They do not mean to err, but their passion is 
strong and they are caught off their guard. They do not 
know how strong their passion is until they are overwhelmed 
by it. Their safety consists in avoiding temptation. They 
should take pains to refrain from things which stimulate 
their passion, from intimacies with the opposite sex, kissing, 
close embrace in dancing, and the like. The social propri¬ 
eties are to aid such people in their self-control and should 
be carefully observed. 
1. How do well-intentioned young people sometimes come to 
transgress ? 
2. What should they do to guard themselves against the danger? 
The bodily union of men and women ought never to be 
simply the gratification of physical passion : it should come as 
the most intense expression of a love so devoted that the 
lovers are ready to give up their lives for each other, or to 
spend all their years in unselfish service of each other. This 
ideal of the relation of the sexes should be in the background 
of the daily life of boys and girls — always there, controlling 
the actions, requiring courtesy to others and respect of self, 
but not brought to notice. In fact, to meditate on the bodily 
relation detracts from the high quality of the love of husband 
and wife that is to come. Settle the matter once for all, that 
you will keep yourself fit for the marriage relation by living 
a chaste life, then put the matter out of your attention and 
give your thoughts to the cultivation of those qualities which 
will make you worthy of esteem and love. 
