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Part I

God’s Purpose in Endowing Plants, Animals, and Man with Reproductive Organs.

CYLINDER I.

The Question of the Origin of Life, Natural and Proper. — To Go Back to the Beginning.— The Account of Creation in Genesis.— Difference Between Making and Creating. — God Created Everything out of Nothing. — From Some Objects God Withheld the Power to Produce Others. —Upon Others He Bestowed Reproductive Power. — This Power Closely Resembles Creative Power, . . .25

CYLINDER II.

The Creation of Plants, Animals, and Man, Each after His Kind. — How God Created Adam and Eve. — The Bible Account. — Reproductive Power Ordained of God. — God Would Not Make a Law that Had

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Impurity in It. — If We Do Not Blush at the Manner in Which God Created Adam and Eve. Neither Should We at the Manner in Which He Created Cain and Abel.

— Thinking God’s Pure Thoughts after Him. — Reproductive Resembles Creative Power, 31

Part II

The Manner in which the Reproductive Organs are Injured in Boys by Abuse. CYLINDER VIII.

Man is an Animal. — Has Intelligence, a Moral Sense, and a Conscience. — How the Intellect, Moral Sense, and Con-

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science are Dwarfed and Blunted.— Comparative Anatomy. — Points of Resemblance in Bodies of Man and Four-footed Animals. — Between Man and Birds. — Man the Only Animal with a Perfect Hand. — Without the Hand, Man Could Not Rise Much above the Animals.— With the Hand, He Constructs, Builds, and Blesses His Fellows. — With the Hand, He Smites, Slays, and Injures.

— With His Hand He Pollutes and Degrades Himself, 75

CYLINDER IX.

God’s Purpose in Giving Us Hands. — The Confidence God Has Reposed in Our Use of Them.— With Man, the Sexual Member Is Exposed. — Through Ignorance, Boys Often Learn Masturbation. — Sliding Down the Banister, Climbing Trees, etc. — Danger from Ignorant and Evil Servants. — Intelligence Necessary for Safety, 82

CYLINDER X.

The Sexual Member a Part of the Reproductive System. — The Reproductive System Defined. — Illustrated By a Watch. — The Different Parts of the Digestive System. — God Gave Us a Reproductive System for the Wisest and Most Beneficent Ends. — By Wrong Thoughts of Them, We Dishonor God. — To Be Held in Purity and Honor. —

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Our Bodies the Temples of the Holy- Ghost. — The Holy Place, and the Holy of Holies. — The Wonderful Mystery of Creative Power. — How the Mind, Imagination, and Heart Are Polluted. — What the Bible Says Upon These Subjects. ....... 87

Part III

What are the Consequences in Boys of the Abuse of the Reproductive Organs.

CYLINDER XI.

Origin of the Different Names of the Sexual Sin. — Tell of the Character of the Sin. — The Class of Boys in Greatest Danger.—Need of Proper Information. — An Important Safeguard. — The Moral Sense the First to Suffer. — Vice Begets in the Heart Rebellion against God. — The Vicious Most Liable to Doubt God and Become Infidels. — Unbelief and Infidelity Symptoms of Sexual and other Sins, 97

CYLINDER XII.

Effect on the Character of Boys. — After the Effects upon the Moral Nature, Those of the Nervous System Appear.

— The Spasm of the Nerves. — The Mind Next to Suffer. — The Visible Effects upon the Mind. —Physical Effects Follow.— Character of These Effects Stated.

— Competent Physician Can Judge Ac-

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curately. — The Habit Grows Strong, and the Will Grows Weak. — Results Where the Practice Is Persisted in. — The Treatment in Extreme Cases. — The Importance of Early Instruction, . . . 102

CYLINDER XIII.

The Boy who Practices Solitary Vice Not the Solitary Sufferer. — The Sins of Children Visited upon Their Parents. — Parents often the Greatest Sufferers. — What Parents Do for Their Children. — During Infancy. — During Childhood. — Should Not Disappoint Their Hopes. — Brothers and Sisters Made to Suffer. — His Children after Him Must Suffer the Results of His Sin. — We Reproduce Ourselves.— Cannot Transmit what We Do Not Possess. — What We Are That Our Children Will Be. — The Character of the Boys and Girls of To-day Determines the Character of the Nation a Hundred Years to Come, 109

Part IV

How Boys May Preserve Their Entire Bodies in Purity and Strength.

CYLINDER XIV.

How Purity and Strength May Be Preserved.—Our Space Not Sufficient to Tell All. — Subject to Be Pursued in other Books. — “ Cleanliness Next to God-

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liness.” — Purity of Mind and Body.— A Pure Heart the First Requisite. — Guarding the Heart. — Danger from Impure Books. — Purity of the Body. — The Weekly and Daily Bath. — The Rite of Circumcision as Related to Purity. —

Not only the External, but also the Internal Portions of the Body to Be Kept Pure. — Emptying Out of Waste Fluids and Solids.— The Lesson Taught by the Fire in the Grate and Stove. — The Fire, or Combustion, in Our Bodies. — Smoke and Perspiration. — Ashes and Waste Substances in the Body. — Importance of Emptying Waste Pipes of the Body Regularly, 119

CYLINDER XV.

Slow Oxidation Called Rusting ; Rapid, Called Burning. — Best of Fuel for the Fire in Our Bodies. — Choice and Preparation of Food. — Discover what Foods Do Not Agree with You. — Abnormal Appetites. — What to Drink. — Danger of All Stimulants. — The Ruin Caused by Intoxicating Liquors. — The Dangerous Cigarette. — Tobacco Universally and Seriously Injurious to Young Boys. — Effect upon the Brain. — Upon the Body.

— Upon the Reproductive Organs, . 128

CYLINDER XVI.

God Intended Man to Work.— Many Seem to Be Born Lazy. — All Must Learn to

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Work. — Some Forms of Labor Call into Service only a Few Muscles. — Every Muscle Should Do Service. — Importance of Exercise. — The Boy’s Bible and Dumb- Bells. — The Muscles Developed by Exercise.— This Not True of the Sexual Member. — Importance of Recreation. — Difference between Exercise and Recreation.— This Illustrated. — So Much of Zest and Pleasure May Be Put into Daily Duty as to Convert It into Recreation. — Daily Food and Daily Exercise. — Importance of Sufficient Sleep. — The Best Hours for Sleep, . . . . .136

CYLINDER XVII.

Food and Exercise for the Mind. — The Intellect May Be Starved. — Mind Fed through the Eyes, Ears, and other Senses. — Mental Food Must Be Digested by Thinking, Considering, and other Mental Processes. — Clean Food for the Mind as well as the Body. — The Mental Food Must Be of a Good Quality. — Unwholesome Reading. — Good Reading.— The Spiritual Nature Must also Be Fed. — The Proper Food. — Six Important Rules on Amusements, • . 144

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Part V

Our Duty to Aid Others to Avoid Pernicious Habits and to Retain or Regain Their Purity and Strength.

CYLINDER XVIII.

The Superior Surroundings of Some.— Larger Blessings Mean Larger Responsibilities.— Our Duty to Those Who Are Less Favorably Situated. — Duty of the Rescued to Those Still in Danger. — Many Sin Because Never Warned. — Those Who Are Neglected Will Become Enemies to Themselves, to Society, and to the State. — Bad Boys Are Active ; Why Should Not Good Boys be Active Also? — Ways of Approach Open to Boys. — Saved Before They Sin. — Serving the Suffering, or Saving from Suffering. — Remove Danger from the Paths of Others, 153

PART VI. How Purity and Strength May be Measurably Regained

CYLINDER XIX.

Purity and Strength, How Regained. — Perfection of Cure Dependent upon the Extent of the Hurt and Method of the Cure. — The Erring Have Much to Hope for. — Human Effort and Divine Help. — Importance of Rules already Suggested.

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— Months and Years Needed. — Importance of the Bath. — Consult Parents and Competent Physician. — Unnatural Modesty in These Matters. — All Parts to be Held in Purity of Thought. — Important Suggestions Concerning Exercise, Sleep, Diet, etc. — Seek Daily Help from God, 161

PART VII. The Age of Puberty and its Attendant Changes

CYLINDER XX.

The Passage from Infancy to Manhood.— Physical and Mental Changes that Occur at the Age of Puberty. — Meaning of the Term “ Puberty.” — The Dormant or Sleeping Powers. — They Awake and Fully Mature by the Time We Need Them. — From Fourteen to Twenty-five the Man is Maturing. — Prior to Puberty Boys and Girls Much Alike in Characteristics.— At Fourteen the Manly Characteristics Begin to Develop. — The New and Embarrassing Experiences. —

The Divinely Implanted Nature Awakes.

— The Attendant Dangers. — How the Boy Is Affected. — It Is the Period of “Storm and Stress.” — Dangers which Arise from Ignorance. — Importance of Intelligence 173

CYLINDER XXI.

The Last Talk. — Desire to Prepare You for the Coming Manhood. — Purity Like the

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Dew. — Boys Impatient for Developing Manhood. — Different Ages at which Puberty Occurs in Different Individuals,

— Causes of Diversity. — Appears Earliest in Diseased Bodies and Latest in the Healthiest. — Illustrated in Diseased Fruit. — The Boys with the Best Bodily Health Experience the Least Trials During the Developing Years. — Early Development Means Early Decay. — Years of Adolescence a Period of Special Danger.— Our Parting Counsel. — Danger of Deferring. — Immediate Development of Physical, Intellectual, and Moral Powers of Utmost Importance. — “ How Shall We Escape if We Neglect.” — Moral Nature Most Important of All. — What Satan Will Say. — The Results Are Inevitable. — Do Not Defer. — Covenant with God, i3i