Be Choice in Your Reading.
By W. E. Caviness
We live in an age when there is great danger of our minds being called away from dwelling on heavenly things. What a vast amount of newspapers and other reading there is circulated throughout the country that is not profitable reading, and is not calculated to elevate and refine the mind, and fit subjects for the society of Heaven. The great part of such reading has an immoral tendency. Oh! that we could always realize that Satan will use those very things to draw our minds away from the word of God, and keep us from searching for truth as for hid treasures. We may go to many households and find the father, and perhaps most of the family, engaged in trashy reading, while the Bible lies on the stand untouched. Can we be prepared to live with God and angels without first becoming acquainted with the mind of God as contained in his word? If it was necessary for Timothy in his time to know the Scriptures, how much more necessary for God's people now, when darkness covers the earth and gross87darkness the people. There should be an earnestness on the part of all to become thoroughly acquainted with the designs and purposes of God and his will, by reading and searching his blessed word.