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22 and inflicts consequences the most terrible. It is man's sin of sins, and vice of vices; and has caused incomparably more sexual dilapidation, paralysis, and disease, as well as demoralization, than all the other sexual depravities combined. Neither Christendom nor heathendom suffers any evil at all to compare with this; because of its universality, and its terrible fatal ravages on body and mind; and because it attacks the young idols of our hearts, and hopes of our future years. Pile all other evils together—drunkenness upon all cheateries, swindlings, robberies, and murders; and tobacco upon both, for it is the greatest scourge; and all sickness, diseases and pestilences upon all; and war as the cap sheaf of them all—and all combined cause not a tithe as much human deterioration and misery as does this secret Sin."—Prof. O. S. Fowler.

You see a strong, handsome boy, clear-eyed with beautifully-tinted complexion, straight, well-formed limbs. You admire his elastic