ONAN ESCHEWED - Rick Grunder

are normal, but "it's up to you to fight this bad habit of masturbation if you have
acquired it. Don't feel that you're a 'hopeless case.' As I said, it's a common
thing, but you must conquer it . . ." Read this book, learn how to train your will
power, and "take up your time with good hobbies," p. 41.
TIPS: "Many boys find that they sin whenever they take a tub bath alone." So
bathe quickly or shower instead, if possible. Let your parent, brother or
guardian know of your problem. As you do your exercises and get older, "you'll
be an attractive man," so beware of loose women who will try to tempt you. Plan
in advance to resist. Through all of these times, "AVOID BEING ALONE." Don't
forget prayer. Shun ". . . bad thoughts, reading, speech, shows, pictures, and
intimacies with girls . . . By sinning, you lose much more than you gain." (p. 42)
"Those of you who can, should take advantage of the sacraments. Go to
confession, attend mass frequently, and receive Holy Communion daily, if
possible." These things keep our minds above the clouds instead in the gutter,
p. 42. It may take months to overcome masturbation, or "it may take twenty
years, . . . but it can be done with the help of God's grace." (p. 43).
be kind to such children,
but rarely tender, . . . never to embrace them
23 DUPANLOUP, [Félix]. (1802-78). THE CHILD: By Monseigneur Dupanloup,
Bishop of Orleans. Translated, with the Author's Permission, by Kate Anderson.
Boston: Patrick Donahoe, 1875.
19 cm. 294 pp. Original dark green cloth decorated in gilt and black. Wearing
and a bit shaken; some gatherings starting. $50
By a prolific author who has more than 1,600 entries on OCLC, which shows
Boston editions of this translation in 1873 and 1875 (offered here) and later in
Dublin, 1882 and '83. It would appear to have been published first in Paris, 1869,
as L'Enfant, par Mgr. l'Évêque d'Orléans . . . While there are quite a number of
copies of the American editions in libraries, few are in New York, and none are
shown at URMC.
Masturbation, pages 172-76 and following. Without using specific terms, the
author works himself into a virtual frenzy on the subject of masturbation.
Poor child, scarcely beginning life, he has exhausted and dried up its sources.
Nature cannot be outraged with impunity—outraged nature revenges itself, and
its vengeance is terrible; sometimes slow, it always comes. The fresh coloring of
that young face has already disappeared, and given place to an accusing
paleness; his eyes have become [p. 173 ends] extinguished; precocious lines
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