Fun and Nonsense

The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · May 5, 1868

FUN AND NONSENSE. A small catalogue of books lately received from a popular publishing house in New York, contains notices of one hundred and fifty new publications, of which seventy-two are novels, and sixteen are humorous and nonsensical works. Thus, in an age which the student of prophecy and the careful observer of the signs of the times sees to be the most important and solemn that the world has ever witnessed, people are giving themselves, as never before, to fiction, glee, hilarity, and nonsense. This is the tendency of the age. The nearer we approach to the solemn scenes of eternity, the more careless and indifferent will the god of this world lead his victims to be in regard to its impending realities.