9.  YOU WILL GET WELL.—­Remember you will get well.  Don’t fear.  Fear destroys strength and therefore increases the trouble.  Many get downhearted, discouraged, despairing—­the very worst thing that can happen, doing as much harm, and in many cases more, than their former dissipation.  Brooding kills; hope enlivens.  Then sing with joy that the savior of knowledge has vanquished the death-dealing ignorance of the past; that the glorious strength of manhood has awakened and cast from you forever the grinning skeleton of vice.  Be your better self, proud that your thoughts in the day-time are as pure as you could wish your dreams to be at night.

10.  HELPS.—­Do not use tobacco or liquor.  They inflame the passions and irritate the nervous system; they only gratify base appetites and never rouse the higher feelings.  Highly spiced food should be eschewed, not chewed.  Meat should be eaten sparingly, and never at the last meal.

11.  DON’T EAT TOO MUCH.—­If not engaged in hard physical labor, try eating two meals a day.  Never neglect the calls of nature, and if possible have a passage from the bowels every night before retiring.  When this is not done the feces often drop into the rectum during sleep, producing heat which extends to the sexual organs, causing the lascivious dreams and emission.  This will be noticed especially in the morning, when the feces usually distend the rectum and the person nearly always awakes with sexual passions aroused.  If necessary, use injections into the rectum of from one to two quarts of water, blood heat, two or three times a week.  Be sure to keep clean and see to it that no matter collects under the foreskin.  Wash off the organ every night and take a quick, cold hand-bath every morning.  Have something to do.  Never be idle.  Idleness always worships at the shrine of passion.

12.  THE WORST TIME OF ALL.—­Many are ruined by allowing their thoughts to run riot in the morning.  Owing to the passions being roused as stated above, the young man lies half awake and half dozing, rousing his passions and reveling in lascivious thought for hours perhaps, thus completely sapping the fountains of purity, establishing habits of vice that will bind him with iron bands, and doing his physical system more injury than if he had practiced self-abuse, and had the emission in a few minutes.  Jump out of bed at once on waking, and never allow the thought to master you.

13.  A HAND BATH.—­A hand bath in cold water every morning will diminish those rampant sexual cravings, that crazy, burning, lustful desire so sensualizing to men by millions; lessen prostitution by toning down that passion which alone patronizes it, and relieve wives by the millions of those excessive conjugal demands which ruin their sexual health; besides souring their tempers, and then demanding millions of money for resultant doctor bills.