PURITY AND TRUTH
The Self and Sex Series ~ Turn of the Century Sex Advice
WHAT A YOUNG MAN OUGHT TO KNOW

By
Sylvanus Stall D. D.

COMMENDATIONS FROM EMINENT MEN

CHAPTER I.
EQUIPMENT FOR LIFE.

This is  the grandest period of the world in which
 to live -- All departments of life open to young men of brain and brawn -- Capacity and power indispensable requisites. -- The world has always worshiped strength.  --  Physical development increasingly cultivated.  --  The weak man goes down in life's fierce struggle. -- The man without health is handicapped.  --  The physical the indispensable foundation.  -- Man's physical powers surpassed by the animals.  -- Intellectual and moral natures elevate man above the animals.  -- Highest culture in the development of our three-fold nature.  -- Injury to any one impairs the other two.  -- Moral nature first to suffer from vice.  --  The intellect suffers next.  --  No treatise complete that ignores the moral or intellectual.  --  God made the higher to rule over the lower.  --  The lower nature must be made subordinate.  --  The moral and intellectual must be made to dominate.  --  Dr. Parker's illustration of the castle.  --  Not the scavengers, but eh man in the citadel to rule.  --  The physicians test of idiocy.  --  The intellectual and the moral natures assigned to their proper places.  -- Enthronement of the moral and intellectual saves and redeems from solitary and social sins.     >> Go


CHAPTER II.
PERSONAL PURITY.

"Keep thyself pure."  -- God has made no mistake in giving
us a strong sexual nature.  -- Sexuality strongly marked in all great men.  --  The mastering of a strong sexuality develops the best there is in human nature.  --  Your struggle no more fierce than that of other men.  -- Thousands slaves to lust.  -- Evil thoughts will enter the purest mind.  --  The sin is in harboring them.  --  Pollution practiced in the mind.  --  Novels appeal to the amative and sexual.  --  The best books for the formative years.  --  Works of art.  --  Nude pictures pollute the imagination.  --  Purity of speech.  -- A vile story may cling to you through life.  -- Importance of pure blood.  -- Wholesome food.  -- God made the hog to serve as a scavenger, and not as food.  --  Moral purity depends upon a pure heart.  -- Christ's explanation of the new birth.  -- The spiritual nature reaches out after God.  -- The helpful influence of a pure-minded woman.  -- One standard of virtue for both men and women.  --  Intelligence and virtue safer than innocence with ignorance.  --  Charlatans who prey upon the vicious and unfortunate.  --  No right-minded man will desire to degrade his body or that of another.  --  The true man will protect and enthrone the virtue of women.  -- Personal purity of greatest importance.  --  Effect of conduct upon character.  --  If you demand purity in your bride she has an equal right to demand it in you.  -- Your conduct will determine the character of your children that come after you.     >> Go

Old Fashioned Advice for Young Men and Women