The sexual organs are not a permissible subject of trade, and purchase of the female body should be discouraged in all the manifestations that official influence or human law can legitimately reach. The army surgeons must _themselves_ know the physical reasons why the practice of immorality can never be rendered safe, and by object-lessons taken from the military hospitals they can teach ignorant soldiers that no death is to be feared in comparison with the shocking results of incontinence. They can indicate the rational means of physical exercise and mental discipline by which the eager passions of youth can be controlled, whilst at the same time they insist upon the necessity of a non-stimulating diet in tropical climates. The chaplains of the army have the next and still higher duty to perform towards each undisciplined youth who is given up body and soul to the absolute direction of the army authorities. No chaplain should be appointed to our Indian army who is not only himself a moral man, but who has also learned the physical possibility and immense advantage of self-control, and is thus able from the basis of physiological knowledge to rise to the higher plane of religious instruction. Without such physiological knowledge, as a sound support of well-grounded spiritual faith, his sacred calling may seem a badge of hypocrisy, more deadly and destructive from the profound responsibility of the position which he has ventured to fill. The immense influence which commanding officers may exert by their own example and sympathy cannot be enlarged on here. But until such influences are brought to bear on the recruits by the _Government_, it is not true to state that efforts to teach self-control have signally failed, for they have not been made.[11] Our responsibilities to the people of India, where England has become the paramount Power, are very weighty. These responsibilities are due to its women as well as to its men. It is stated that, according to the last census, there were the enormous number of 38,047,354 girls under fifteen years of age in our Indian Empire. What is the duty of a Christian Government to this helpless mass of human beings? The formation of poor young Indian women into a class purchasable by white soldiers--a class despised by their own people, with no refuge before them, but when used up turned out to die--is a dire and dastardly disgrace to any Government calling itself civilized. The removal of temptation by forbidding our soldiers to purchase our young Indian sisters, and, if necessary, excluding them entirely from the cantonment, is a distinct duty on the part of any Government that seriously means to banish venereal disease from our army.