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International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Nov 16, 1888

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 14, No. 44.

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NOVEL READING.

SPEAKING of the baneful effects of indiscriminate novel reading, the Christian at Work says: “As for the sensational, unreal, ill-starred, distorted extravaganzas with their sham heroism, or those others with their effluvial scandals, fostering that habit of novel reading which leads to fatty degeneration of the mind, just as dram drinking tends to fatty degeneration of the heart—banish it all from the home and keep it out. There are four great evils of today which are sapping our sociological life, and not the least of these is the craze and the curse of intemperate, indiscriminate novel reading.”