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Chapter 54—Sensuality in the Young
Dear Brother and Sister E,
It has been some time since I have taken my pen to write anything
except urgent letters which could not be delayed. I have had a
discouraging weight upon my spirits for months, which has nearly
crushed me. That which discourages me the most is the fear that
all I may write will do no more good than has our earnest, anxious,
wearing labor in-----the past winter and spring. The hopeless view I
have taken of matters and things at that place has kept my pen nearly
still and my voice nearly silent. My hands have been weakened and
my heart depressed, to see nothing gained by the protracted effort
there. I am nearly hopeless in regard to our efforts’ being successful
to awaken the sensibilities of our Sabbathkeeping people to see the
elevated position which God requires them to occupy. They do not
view religious things from an elevated standpoint. This is just your
condition.
The Lord has given me a view of some of the corruptions ev-
erywhere existing. Wickedness, crime, and sensuality exist even
in high places. Even in the churches professing to keep God’s
commandments there are sinners and hypocrites. It is sin, not trial
and suffering, which separates God from His people and renders
the soul incapable of enjoying and glorifying Him. It is sin that
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is destroying souls. Sin and vice exist in Sabbathkeeping families.
Moral pollution has done more than every other evil to cause the
race to degenerate. It is practiced to an alarming extent and brings
on disease of almost every description. Even very small children,
infants, being born with natural irritability of the sexual organs, find
momentary relief in handling them, which only increases the irrita-
tion, and leads to a repetition of the act, until a habit is established
which increases with their growth. These children, generally puny
and dwarfed, are prescribed for by physicians and drugged; but the
evil is not removed. The cause still exists.
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