p. 13 | The Church Paper in the Home

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · May 22, 1913

The Church Paper in the Home

“Another reason why the church paper should find a permanent place on your library tables is that it belongs to a distinctly religious and Christian class of current literature. And because it is of a distinctly religious class, its presence is needed to offset the unwholesome effects of much of our current literature that is not distinctly or even partially religious. Take the daily newspaper; and while we cannot very well get along without a knowledge of the daily news, yet it remains to be said that there is much which appears in the daily newspaper that might be well kept out of the sight of children and young people. There are murder accounts and divorce cases and liquor advertisements, prizefights and political quarrels, that appear in the daily press that should not be read by any member of the family, young or old. Take many of the current magazines, and in not a few instances there are things in print that have a deleterious influence upon childhood. An adult that reads only the daily newspaper is liable to become discolored and distorted in his thinking. What he needs, as well as the child, is to neutralize distorted conceptions.”