In health / by A.J. Ingersoll.

  • Ingersoll, A. J. (Andrew J.)
Date:
1892
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Credit: In health / by A.J. Ingersoll. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    friend then told me that he had treated some ladies improperly at a protracted meeting; the circumstances had been sup- pressed by taking him to an insane asylum. All sensation of sexual feeling should be committed or yielded to Christ. To do this there should be thankfulness for it, and mercy and good-will toward it, at the moment there is consciousness of it; and not only in thought should there be a de- sire that Christ will keep it, but this desire must be accompanied by resignation of the will to Him, and a consequent relaxation of the nervous and muscular systems. To relax the nervous and muscular sys- tems is to drop the head toward the chest, to sit with every muscle relaxed, and to let go all will over the muscular system, just as you have seen some persons do when asleep in their chairs. Such a position in- duces a truly natural, involuntary breathing by which the inhalations, instead of being expelled entirely through the nostrils, half