p. 18 | Food for the Mind by Milton E. Kern

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Sep 2, 1909

Food for the Mind

By Milton E. Kern

PARENTS who are very careful to supply their children with plenty of wholesome physical food, sometimes neglect the mental and spiritual, which is most important. To shield our young people from evil influences, and to furnish them with materials for intellectual and spiritual growth, they should be supplied with good books adapted to their age and experience.

“Unless greater care is manifested in choosing their [the children's] associates and the literature which feeds the mind, they will be exposed to a society whose morals are as corrupt as were the morals of the inhabitants of Sodom.”—Mrs. E. G. White, in Signs of the Times, April 21, 1890.

To help our children and young people in the choice of good literature and to encourage systematic and thorough reading, the Missionary Volunteer reading courses have been started. Like all opportunities, this one must be seized at the opportune time, which is now.

The courses this year, beginning in October, are as follows:—

Missionary Volunteer Reading Course No. 3

“Quiet Talks on Service,” by S. D. Gordon. Cloth, seventy-five cents.

“The Moslem World,” by Samuel Zwemer. Cloth, fifty cents; paper, thirty-five cents.

“Great Second Advent Movement,” by J. N. Loughborough. Cloth, $1.25; paper, fifty cents.

Junior Reading Course No. 2

“Letters From the Holy Land,” by Walter Harper. Cloth, fifty cents; paper, twenty-five cents.

Three Historical Books of the Bible.

“My Garden Neighbors,” by L. A. Reed. Cloth, $1.

Note the advertisement of these books in the Instructor of September 7.

No young person who has any leisure time (and all of us squander many precious moments) can afford to miss taking one of these courses. And let the parents and young people unite in this educational effort. All will be benefited, and parents and children will be brought nearer together through this means.

Your Missionary Volunteer secretary can furnish you the enrolment blanks and leaflets giving full information in regard to these courses. There will be no cost except for the books and the Youth's Instructor. Outlines to assist in the reading will begin in the Instructor of October 5. Enrol your names with your Missionary Volunteer secretary at once, and order at least the first book, that you may begin promptly.

M. E. K.