A lecture to young men on chastity / [Sylvester Graham].

  • Sylvester Graham
Date:
1838
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Credit: A lecture to young men on chastity / [Sylvester Graham]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    save the world below from desolation !—(See Note A.) How philosophically adapted to the nature, and condition, and welfare of man, therefore, is the requisition of the gospel, which demands spiritual chastity; and forbids even the look of lust, and the lascivious thought! But while the benevolent gospel makes this holy requisi- tion for the good of human beings, it does not explicitly teach us, in the detail, all the physi- cal and moral means by which we shall be rendered capable of a full compliance with it. The knowledge of these things, it has, with great propriety, left for the acquisition of our rational powers ; and thereby implicitly im- posed upon us the obligation to exercise our intellectual and moral faculties, to the extent of our abilities, on every subject that concerns our nature and condition, and our duties and responsibilities. Exceedingly depraved as mankind are, in all their instinctive propensities, we are con-
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