---
title: 'Plain Words to Young Men'
type: pdf
hasMedia: true
requiresPurchase: false
authors:
- 'John Bingham Ripley'
date: 1861-01-01
collection: 'Archives'
subcollection: '19th century'
topics:
- 'Character and Conduct of Life'
- 'Temperance'
- 'Children and Youth'
scriptures:
- 'Proverbs 23'
- 'Ephesians 5'
- 'Joshua 1'
url: https://confessional.org/archives/19th-century/ripley-1861-plain-words-to-young-men
---

# Plain Words to Young Men

Pastoral exhortation warning young men against drinking, vice, and dissipation, detailing ruin (disease, crime, death) and urging moral discipline, purpose, and devotion to Christ.

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