6.  DEATH TO TRUE MANHOOD.—­The question for each one is, “In what way are you going to divert the courses of the streams of energy which pertain to youthful vigor and manhood?” To be destitute of that which may be described as raw material in the human frame, means that no really vigorous manhood can have place; to burn up the juices of the system in the fires of lust is madness and wanton folly, but it can be done.  To divert the currents of life and energy from blood and brain, from memory and muscle, in order to secrete it for the shambles of prostitution, is death to true manhood; but remember, it can be done!  The generous liquid life may inspire the brain and blood with noble impulse and vital force, or it may be sinned away and drained out of the system until the jaded brain, the faded cheek, the enervated young manhood, the gray hair, narrow chest, weak voice, and the enfeebled mind show another victim in the long catalogue of the degraded through lust.

7.  THE SISTERHOOD OF SHAME AND DEATH.—­Whenever we pass the sisterhood of death, and hear the undertone of song, which is one of the harlot’s methods of advertising, let us recall the words, that these represent the “pestilence which walketh in darkness, the destruction that wasteth at noonday.”  The allusion, of course, is to the fact that the great majority of these harlots are full of loathsome physical and moral disease; with the face and form of an angel, these women “bite like a serpent and sting like an adder;” their traffic is not for life, but inevitably for shame, disease, and death.  Betrayed and seduced themselves, they in their turn betray and curse others.

8.  WARNING OTHERS.—­Have you never been struck with the argument of the Apostle, who, warning others from the corrupt example of the fleshy Esau, said, “Lest there be any fornicator or profane person as Esau, who for one mess of meat sold his own birthright.  For ye know that even afterward, when he desired to inherit the blessing, he was rejected, he found no place for repentance, though he sought it diligently with tears.”  Terrible and striking words are these.  His birthright sold for a mess of meat.  The fearful costs of sin—­yes, that is the thought, particularly the sin of fornication!  Engrave that word upon your memories and hearts—­“One mess of meat.”

9.  THE HARLOT’S MESS OF MEAT.—­Remember it, young men, when you are tempted to this sin.  For a few minutes’ sensual pleasure, for a mess of harlot’s meat, young men are paying out the love of the son and brother; they are deceiving, lying, and cheating for a mess of meat; for a mess, not seldom of putrid flesh, men have paid down purity and prayer, manliness and godliness; for a mess of meat some perhaps have donned their best attire, and assumed the manners of the gentleman, and then, like an infernal hypocrite flogged the steps of maiden or harlot to satisfy their degrading lust; for a mess of meat young men have deceived father and mother, and shrunk from the embrace