p. 13 | Reading, and Reading

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Nov 14, 1907

Reading, and Reading

A MOTHER was very much delighted to know that her young son was so fond of reading, and spoke of his thoughtful and studious habits. It developed, however, that he was reading the most trashy books in the line of exciting and sensational yellow-back literature. He had no taste for what was substantial and instructive, and his taste for reading was, in its way and directed as it was, a very injurious tendency.

Physiologists tell us that we do not drink enough, ordinarily, and urge that two or three pints of water daily should be taken into the system. The one who should drink a great deal of beer and wine and other intoxicating liquor, and delude himself that he is living in accordance with this physiological requirement, would make no more surely a great mistake than the one who, reading flashy and evil books, flatters himself that he is cultivating his literary taste and satisfying his intellectual needs.—Herald and Presbyter.