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QUARANTINE YOUR HOUSE

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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Dec 24, 1901

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 78, No. 52.

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QUARANTINE YOUR HOUSE.

Memphis Advocate.
You must quarantine against immoral literature. This is a deadly poison. It comes in various and attractive disguises. Exclude it as you would the germs of a pestilence. To effectually protect your homes from its baleful influence, supply them with healthy literature. It is as easy to cultivate a good as a depraved literary taste in children. They will read something, and what they read will exert an important influence on their character. Let your most earnest effort be exerted to keep out of the house the sensational novel, the blood-curdling tale of vice, the obscene pictures, and the whole flood of wicked, degrading, crime-producing literature that threatens us. Put in reach of your family good papers, magazines, and books. Bait them with a chaste story, and keep them supplied with wholesome knowledge. A bad book may prepare your son for the cell of a felon. A novel may vitiate the whole life of your daughter.