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Four Kinds of Readers

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Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, California · May 6, 1880

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 6, No. 17.

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Four Kinds of Readers

Four Kinds of Readers. — Coleridge says that there are four kinds of readers. The first is like the hour-glass; and their reading being as the sand, it runs in and runs out, and leaves not a vestige behind. A second is like the sponge, which imbibes everything, and returns it in nearly the same state, only a little dirtier. A third is like a jelly-bag, allowing all that is pure to pass away, and retaining only the refuse and dregs. And the fourth is like the slaves in the diamond mines of Golconda, who, casting aside all that is worthless, retains only pure gems. Make it a rule to read a little every day, even if it be but a single sentence.