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These events occurred before He was thirty years of age, and the events after He had risen from the dead, He appeared back to India, Europe and Africa in the land of Egypt, and made Himself known wato the world. These events are the eighteen years which ore absent im your “Holy Bible.” events of John the Baptist. John taught by the jan sage. The meaning of Baptism and how to baptize himself. ; And after he was baptized, he was taken at the age of twelve years into Africa, the Jand of Egypt, and there remained in the Egyptian schools eighteen years. And there he learned his duty as “Fore-runner of Jesus.” \ CHAPTER XX HOLY INSTRUCTION AND WARNINGS FOR ALL * YOUNG MEN 1. Beware, young men, beware of sll the allurements of wanton- ness, and Jet not the harlot tempt thee fo excess in her delights. 2. The madness of desire shall defeat its own pursuits; from the blindness of its rage, thou shalt rush wpon destruction. 3. Therefore give not up thy heart to her sweet enticements, neither suffer thy soul to be enslaved by her enchanting delusions. —- > 4. The foundation of health which must supply the stream of pleas- ure, shall quickly be dried up, and every spring of joy shall be exhausted. . In the prime of thy life old age shall overtake thee; the sun shall decline in the morning of thy days. . 6. But when virtue and modesty enlighten her charms, the iustre of a beautiful woman is brighter than the stars of heaven and the influence of her power it is in vain to resist. 7. The whiteness of her bosom transcendeth the lily; her smile is“ more delicious than a garden of roses. 8. The innocence of her eyes is like that of a turtle; simplicity and truth dwell in her heart. oe. . The kisses of her mouth are sweeter than honey; the perfumes of Arabia breathe from her lips. ; 10. Shut not thy bosom to the tenderness of love; the purity of its flame shall ennoble thy heart, and soften it to receive the fairest im- pressions. MARRIAGE INSTRUCTIONS FOR MAN AND WIFE FROM ro THE NOBLE PROPHET ° weedy: Give ear, fair daughter of Jove, to the instructions of prudence ,, and le{‘the precepts of truth sink deep in thy heart; so shall the charms }. of, thy ‘tifind add lustre to the elegance of thy form, and thy beawty, like. je rose.it resembleth, shall retain its sweetness when its bloom = a SO. = . ro Lh CARLES ——