PERNICIOUS LITERATURE

Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Jul 1, 1880

PERNICIOUS LITERATURE.

"We are shocked," says Tholuck, "when we think of the destruction which the mental gifts of a conqueror can bring upon the world. But have we ever represented to ourselves, the destruction which is brought upon the world by the high endowments of writers, who follow the impulse of ambition, and are too easily betrayed to serve a lie? The one lays waste houses, the other ruins hearts; the one destroys life, the other poisons faith and love. Oh! what a bloodless, but not less crying murder is that, which is continually committed far and wide, over town and country, by authors, who in their proud spirit serve lies. Oh! if a rich man shall hardly enter into heaven, and if it be true in regard to worldly goods, it is infinitely more so, in regard to those richly endowed with mental gifts, but destitute of purity of heart."