A Solemn Appeal - Ellen G. White

or controlled by reason. It is blind to consequences.
It will not reason from cause to effect. Many
women are suffering from great debility, and with
settled disease, brought upon them because the
laws of their being have not been regarded.
Nature’s laws have been trampled upon. The brain
nerve-power is squandered by men and women
because called into unnatural action to gratify base
passions; and this hideous monster, base, low
passion; assumes the delicate name of love.
Many professed Christians are more animal
than divine. They are, in fact, about all animal. A
man of this type degrades the wife he has promised
to nourish and cherish. She is made by him an
instrument to minister to the gratification of his
low, lustful propensities. Very many women
submit to become slaves to lustful passion. They do
not possess their bodies in sanctification and honor.
The wife does not retain the dignity and selfrespect
she possessed previous to marriage. This
holy institution should have preserved and
increased her womanly respect and holy dignity.
Her chaste, dignified, godlike womanhood, has
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