Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1842-11-23

answer the silent course has been tried till world
has become vast pit of corruption. Has the world
been safe in lis ignorance If mol, will it be SO here
aier2 Should we strive 10 keep our children In lg-
Of The crime of theft, and IFS penalty! Shall
we blot out the commandments of the holy scriptures
against lust and sensuality, lest they should induce
people 10 become sensual2 have made many efforts,
and many sacrifices 10 spread light this subect,and
hitherto have every reason to believe with the hap
pies effects Our safety, the safety of children
and YOUTH IS 10 light and not IN darkness.
To quote again the language of the Report of the
Lunatic Hospital =" The interests of humanity i'm
peratyey demand that something should be done to
rescue the most moral, Conscientious and sometimes
the most promising youth Of the State from The mind
wasting ravages Of an indulgence Of whose terrible
conss quences they have never been forewarned."
have known the most conscientious persons, in
other respects who the victims of self pollution
Though, like other SINS its general tendency is to
harden and scar the conscience and often there Ia
menabe of moral principle in those who indulge
in the vice.
That the world is exceedingly corrupt, is acknowl-
edged on every hand; but when we descend TO parc-
uas and expose It's manifold corrupions many shrink
back and unwilling to see things as they really
are. | have been exceedingly unwilling TO believe
that such things are, as detailed in the following
pages.
! II seems 10 me work Of mercy TO inform mothers
of the evils that exist and to which children are ex
posed. By timely warning, moral instruction, and cor
rect roning with regard 10 diet and regimen, mothers
can, in great measure, prevent the formation those
vicious habits that ruin soul and body. If christian
mothers could see the length and breath of this sub
lJect; if they could see why so many promising child
rem fade away and die in early years; if they could
know why so many pulmonary consumptions are in
duced, which cut of many Of our young persons in
their first years Of youth and freshness. and but for
this worm in the bud, years of usefulness too they
Il would not oppose any one in the blessed work Of
spreading light on this appalling subject Pulmonary
and other kinds OF consumption often produced by
this cause though many causes are steadily work 10
produce consumpions.
The following is copy of note, sent By p:ous
young woman, who induced by sense OF duty to
confess her sin to NJ S. Cove the Lecturer on Anao-
my and Physiology, after hearing her lecture on uses
and abuses ofthe nervous system
"MY DEAR Mas. G.-You are dear to my heart
o that had found friend like you years ago l
i
have lost my heata yes, lost it f1rever. o, warn
a young girls tell them OF the vice. that they may no
81 in ignorance commit it and ruin soul and BODY
knew not that person in the world committed
this sin but myself, till heard your lecture Igno
rance causelh much suffering have su1ered-O,
have suffered every thing but death, and soon mus
meet that. have often thought how hard and strang,
was that young and healthy should be bro
:, to Of suffering aid disease. Ignorant hay
done it. O. be faithful and others ofthis snare
il A minister's wife, pous and exemplary woman
n after hearing the above mentioned lectures, felt it he
duty 10 converse with iltle girl Of years of ag
10 who lived with her. on the subject of solitary vice
After reading the scriptures and prayer. she broke tn
IS subject. The child told her she had been practising
a. the vice for a considerable length of tire. She nae
n the person who taught her. This individual was al
Sc intimate acquaintance the lady, She also ascertain
r ed that this person taught the sin by another
Of her in,ima,esl Where. ask is place of safety
be found for children when such facts around
e. Shall we not and instruct them, and by temper
ance and proper regimen keep their passions in chez
lie as much as possib.el
v. Another lady. who awakened to sense Of thi
C. evil by attending NJ s. Goves lectures not long ate
IS ward found opportunity 10 her own family. OF les
ing the value of her Information Her little son abou
Ten years of age, attacked with phimos "a strict
e, ure ofhe prepuce) so that water can be passed
OF This disorder is rather result of sefpoIlu
e. tion The lady took her lie alone, and teDderl
talked with him. He confessed that be had been pra
Using this vice, and said had been recently taugt
es him By lad who had paid him visi, from anothe
III, town. The mother succeeded 6y faithfully bahin
ne the child and especially the paris in warm water
al overcoming the phimosis She warned and nsrncte
e- her child. every mother should and be begged he
he to let him go immediately the lad who had taug
Is. him the sin. and him. Thus a little inf
Us ton. Obtained BY mother and rightly used. may