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Purity and Delicate Tastes

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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Mar 21, 1882

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 59, No. 12.

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Purity and Delicate Tastes

—A man may corrupt his taste and introduce an element of vulgarism into his expressiveness by careless familiarity with the foul and unlovely. There are a great many men that read books to understand human nature, who do not know that they are pouring filth into the currents of their souls. There are a great many men who, when they are abroad, go to see sights that human eyes ought not to look upon, except they be eyes of mercy looking to save men as brands from the final burning. A man at the center must be thoroughly and immaculately pure, if he would be at the circumference filled with fine sensibilities and delicate tastes so as to appreciate the nobly grand and the singularly beautiful.