ington's
advice at the Monongahela. The success and beauty of the Mosaic law is
its squarely facing the conditions of actual life, and its absence from
nonsense or nauseating sentimentality. Were our present churches to
observe more of this plain talk, for which the good old Anglo-Saxon is
as fully expressive and convincing as the old Hebrew, and deal less in
rhetorical flourishes and figurative mean-nothings to tickle the ears of
our modern Pharisees, mankind as well as womankind would be infinitely
so much the better off, mentally, morally, and physically, and there
would be less of the conflict between science and religion. Luther's
dream of restoring religion to its primitive purity has come to but as
poor realization at the hands of his so-called followers, which leads
one to think that if the martyrs of the Reformation could come back and
see the fruits of their martyrdom--suffered that pure religion might
live--they would conclude that, for all the resulting good accomplished,
they might as well have kept a whole skin and a whole set of bones.

In cases of pronounced phimosis the aperture in the prepuce may not be
in a line with the meatus, and the resulting discharge of urine or the
ejaculations of seminal fluid may from this cause be unable to find an
egress. The fluid escaping from the urethra will, in case the opening is
at the side or upper part of the prepuce, cause it to balloon out until
a sufficient quantity is thrown out so as to distend, the opening as
well as the prepuce, before it can find its way out; in such cases
impotency is liable to be as complete as in those cases of stricture
wherein the seminal fluid is forced backward into the bladder. Having
given this general view of the effects of phimosis as it may affect man
in the shape of his organ, which may have a serious result in his
domestic relations or in becoming a father, we will proceed to the
consideration of diseases and conditions that phimosis encourages and to
which it renders man more liable. In the consideration of these cases it
must not be forgotten that the sexual relations are much more to man or
woman than is generally acknowledged. The days for the establishment of
the Utopian republic of Plato are not yet with us. That Platonic love
does exist is true, as it has in the past and will in the future.
Scipio, refusing to accept the beautiful betrothed bride of an enemy as
a present, or Joseph leaving his coat-tail in the hands of t