y
answer to this is a flat denial from experience. I know it is possible,
and, when once attained, easy. The means, under God, in my own case, was
a letter from my father. A quiet, simple statement of the sinfulness of
the sin and a few of the plain texts from St. Paul saved me. A film fell
from my eyes at my father's letter. My first statement is that all
fathers ought to write such a letter to their sons. It is not difficult
if done in a common-sense way. Following out this plan at Uppingham in
the morning Bible lessons, I have always spoken as occasion arose with
perfect plainness on lust and its devil-worship, particularly noting its
deadly effect on human life and its early and dishonored graves.
Ignorance is deadly, because perfect ignorance in a boy is impossible. I
consider the half-ignorance so deadly that once a year, at the time of
confirmation, I speak openly to the whole school, divided into three
different sets. First I take the confirmees, then the communicants and
older boys, then the younger boys, on three following nights after
evening prayers. The first two sets I speak very plainly to, the last
only warn against all indecency in thought, word, or deed, whether alone
or with companions. Thus no boy who has been at school a whole year can
sin in ignorance, and a boy who despises this warning is justly turned
out of the school on conviction."

Finally, he dwelt upon the necessity of school life having joined
to it a home life. The purifying influence of a good woman and a
fuller recognition of woman's work and place in the world he looked
upon as that which promised most for lifting mankind into a higher
atmosphere of pure life.

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