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The Bad Man and the Bad Book

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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Nov 21, 1892

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 19, No. 3.

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The Bad Man and the Bad Book

Mrs. FRANK LESLIE has recently and truly remarked: “A bad man is, in some respects, like a bad book. You study one or the other, you are altogether shocked and repelled, and at the end you throw the book aside, but you cannot by a mere effort of will forget all that you have read; certain scenes, certain phrases, certain discoveries of hitherto unsuspected forms of vice, remain in your mind in spite of every effort, and life is never quite the same as while you were ignorant of these blots upon humanity.” “Who can handle the pitch, and not be defiled?”