6.  REST ON A HARD MATTRESS.—­Keep the body cool when asleep; heat arising from a load of bed-clothes, is most undesirable.  Turn down the counterpane, and let the air have free course through the blankets.

7.  RELIEVE THE SYSTEM.—­As much as possible relieve the system of urine before going to sleep.  On rising, bathe if practicable.  If you cannot bear cold water, take the least possible chill off the water (cold water, however, is best).  If bathing is not practicable, wash the body with cold water, and keep scrupulously clean.  The reaction caused by cold water, is most desirable.  Rub the body dry with a rough towel.  Drink a good draught of cold water.

8.  EXERCISE.—­Get fifteen minutes’ brisk walk, if possible before breakfast.  If any sense of faintness exists, eat a crust of bread, or biscuit.  Be regular in your meals, and do not fear to make a hearty breakfast.  This lays a good foundation for the day.  Take daily good, but not violent exercise.  Walk until you can distinctly feel the tendency to perspiration.  This will keep the pores of the skin open and in healthy condition.

9.  MEDICINES.—­Take the medicines, if used, regularly and carefully.  Bromide of Potassium is a most valuable remedy in allaying lustful and heated passions and appetites.  Unless there is actual venereal disease, medicine should be very little resorted to.

10.  AVOID THE STREETS AT NIGHT.—­Beware of corrupt companions.  Fast young men and women should be shunned everywhere.  Cultivate a taste for good reading and evening studies.  Home life with its gentle restraints, pure friendships, and healthful discipline, should be highly valued.  There is no liberty like that of a well-regulated home.  To large numbers of young men in business houses, home life is impracticable.

11.  BE OF GOOD CHEER AND COURAGE.—­Recovery will be gradual, and not sudden; vital force is developed slowly from within.  The object aimed at by medicine and counsel, is to aid and increase nervous and physical vigor, and give tone to the demoralized system.  Do not pay the slightest heed to the exaggerated statements of the wretched quack doctors, who advertise everywhere.  Avoid them as you would a pestilence.  Their great object is, through exciting your fears, to get you into their clutches, in order to oppress you with heavy and unjust payments.  Be careful, not to indulge in fancies, or morbid thoughts and feelings.  Be hopeful, and play the part of a man determined to overcome.

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MANHOOD WRECKED AND RESCUED.

1.  THE NOBLEST FUNCTIONS OF MANHOOD.—­The noblest functions of manhood are brought into action in the office of the parent.  It is here that man assumes the prerogative of a God and becomes a creator.  How essential that every function of his physical system should be perfect, and every faculty of his mind free from that which would degrade; yet how many drag their purity through the filth of masturbation, revel in the orgies of the debauchee, and worship at the shrine of the prostitute, until, like a tree blighted by the livid lightning, they stand with all their outward form of men, but without life.