s life and perhaps
bringing into the world children who will live only to suffer and curse the
day on which they were born and the father who begat them.

4. SEXUAL IMPOTENCY.--Sexual impotency means sexual starvation, and drives
many wives to ruin, while a similar lack among wives drives husbands to
libertinism. Nothing so enhances the happiness of married couples as this
full, life-abounding, sexual vigor in the husband, thoroughly reciprocated
by the wife, yet completely controlled by both.

5. TWO CLASSES OF SUFFERERS.--There are two classes of sufferers. First,
those who have only practiced self-abuse and are suffering from emissions.
Second, those who by overindulgence in marital relations, or by dissipation
with women, have ruined their forces.

6. THE REMEDY.--For self-abuse: When the young man has practiced self-abuse
for some time, he finds, upon {462} quitting the habit, that he has nightly
emissions. He becomes alarmed, reads every sensational advertisement in the
papers, and at once comes to the conclusion that he must take something.
_Drugs are not necessary._

7. STOP THE CAUSE.--The one thing needful, above all others, is to stop the
cause. I have found that young men are invariably mistaken as to what is
the cause. When asked as to the first cause of their trouble, they
invariably say it was self-abuse, etc., but it is not. _It is the thought._
This precedes the handling, and, like every other cause, must be removed in
order to have right results.

8. STOP THE THOUGHT.--But remember, _stop the thought_! You must not look
after every woman with lustful thoughts, nor go courting girls who will
allow you to hug, caress and kiss them, thus rousing your passions almost
to a climax. Do not keep the company of those whose only conversation is of
a lewd and depraved character, but keep the company of those ladies who
awaken your higher sentiments and nobler impulses, who appeal to the
intellect and rouse your aspiration, in whose presence you would no more
feel your passions aroused than in the presence of your own mother.

9. YOU WILL GET WELL.--Remember you will get well. Don't fear. Fear
destroys strength and therefore increases the trouble. Many get
downhearted, discouraged, despairing--the very worst thing that can happen,
doing as much harm, and in many cases more, than their former dissipation.
Brooding kills; hope enlivens. Then sing with joy that the savior of
knowledge has vanquished the death-de