TWO SETS OF RECIPES

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Sep 14, 1876

TWO SETS OF RECIPES.

I

ARE you deficient in taste? Read the best English poets, such as Thompson, Gray, Goldsmith, Pope, Cowper, Coleridge, Scott, and Wordsworth.

Are you deficient in imagination? Read Milton, Akenside, Burke, and Shakespeare.

Are you deficient in the power of reasoning? Read Chillingworth, Bacon, and Locke.

Are you deficient in judgment and good sense in the common affairs of life? Read Franklin.

Are you deficient in sensibility? Read Goethe, and Mackenzie.

Are you deficient in political knowledge? Read Montesquieu, the Federalist, Webster, and Calhoun.

Are you deficient in patriotism? Read Demosthenes, and the Life of Washington.

Are you deficient in conscience? Read some of President Edward’s works.—Independent.

II

Very good for those who have access to a choice library, or means to purchase for themselves. There is for the less-favored class a very good substitute. Read critically, with a view to the style and dignity of thought.

For defective taste—Christ’s sermon on the mount; Paul’s address to Agrippa, and the Epistle of James.

For imagination—the descriptive passages in Job, and generally the Apocalypse of St. John.

For reasoning—Christ’s refutation of the Sadducees, and generally the Epistle to the Romans.

For judgment and good sense—Solomon’s Proverbs.

For sensibility—The last chapters of any of the four Gospels, and the book of Ruth.

For political knowledge—Study the constitution of the Jewish commonwealth, as described in the first books of the Bible.

For patriotism—The life of David; the restoration after the Babylonish captivity.

For cultivation of the conscience, you can scarcely go amiss. Peter’s, John’s, and James’ Epistles, and above all the words of Christ.

This is no ad captandum suggestion. The Scriptures furnish the best models and the most suggestive materials to be found in the English language.—Interior.